A two-way street on gunrunning

By Ruben Navarrette
3:00 a.m. March 8, 2009

It's time for the American people to stop living in a state of denial and get serious about stopping gun shipments into Mexico.

Mexico's ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhan, has noted that as many as 2,000 weapons enter Mexico from the United States every day – most of them through Texas and Arizona, and many of them purchased legally at gun shows and gun stores. Many of the transactions come in “straw purchases,â€