News outlets are reporting that actor David Spade donated $100,000 to the Phoenix Police Department to purchase AR-15 rifles for patrol officers.

If the police officers in the Southwest are outgunned, it is likely because former Mexican soldiers have been recruited by the drug cartels. As the War on Drugs has ballooned north from Colombia to Mexico, military incursions on American soil are becoming more common, Mexican soldiers are being killed and beheaded, and police officers are being assassinated (warning: violent content).

This is one more way that the War on Drugs is nonsensical policy. For more on this topic, click here, here, or here.