Where the Heck Do They Get It All?!

"The shiny aluminum box van was a mobile armory filled with automatic rifles, pistols, grenades, antitank rockets, and detonators." (Locations 629-35)

"They carried enough combined firepower to kill more than 3,000 Escobar defenders." (Locations 635-41) 

Holy smokes! First of all, where the heck does one possibly find all of these weapons?! The godfathers get a hold of them like it's nothing.  They act as if buying weapons were like buying shoes.  You can buy as many as you want and without consequences.  In the normal world, this is definitely not the case! A person needs a license only to buy a single gun.  Imagine how many one person would need to get a hold of all of that! How do they do it?!

Not only is that shocking, it is also petrifying! Imagine living during that time.  If I were a regular citizen in Cali, I would be horrified to walk out the front door! Can you imagine living in a city knowing another person has all of these weapons? On top of the fact that they buy them as if they were buying shoes?!  These two sentences bewildered me.  This topic was the only thing I could think about as I carried on with the novel.  It's the only thing I can think about now!

Today people are frightened when they hear about guns and knives.  It's not normal to have a gun just lying around.  Countries around the world are going through panic attacks due to the amount of violence that is going on.  This year alone there have been many school shootings in the United States.  Obviously, the use of weapons is frowned upon by almost everyone!  I could not imagine having a car full of weaponry right in front of me. If I did have it in front of me, I would find a way to get rid of it all! I would want nothing to do with it! It gives me the hebegebes only thinking about it. How does Jorge and his British friends embrace all of it? How do they find it amazing? Their thoughts here are just wrong.  Yes, we are all entitled to our own opinions, but one thing is to have an opinion and another thing is to act on that opinion.