About the lack of resource - but yeah, your right. The fire burn that happened a few days later was not handled very well they were saying also - their models were off - all the time before that the tanks were ruptured and seemed to be pouring chem into the environment - the questions people were asking was whether the controlled burn was botched - larger than needed to be- but who knows - if they had those cooling systems they probably would have had a different results maybe - but like you said, lack of resources - but having read a bit more about the burning I agreed with you - about guns, Your right about that - I watched a doco called Cartel Land 2015 , its pretty crazy - one really interesting person in the doco "José Manuel 'El Doctor' Mireles" - he armed armed his town with AK47s and other combat ready firearms - but you are only allowed small calibre "registered with the army" firearms in mexico (I never knew this until he talked about it): https://www.mexperience.com/mexicos-strict-gun-laws/ - the fact that the town was armed with combat rifles made it hard for then cartels to control them - in fact, the cartels were kicked out - so what happened next? Well, like clockwork the government came in and took away the guns from the people -
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