Good taste: you can’t afford it.

Ramiro Pozos Gonzalez, a “founding member” of the La Resistencia drug gang, has been captured.

Ordinarily, I don’t note the capture of every cartel member that comes down the pike. But the HouChron article includes a charming photograph of Mr. Gonzalez’s gold-plated “AK-47”, which was also captured with him.

I can sort of, vaguely, understand plating the gun. But the magazines? That’s just a waste of money. Magazines are disposable items. You should be prepared to trash them if they don’t feed; gold-plating them just makes the decision that much more difficult.

(Previously.)

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2 Responses to “Good taste: you can’t afford it.”

  1. TJIC says:
    September 14, 2012 at 8:30 am

    For me or you.

    For a drug lord billionaire? His gold plated magazines are probably a smaller part of his annual income than a single round of ammo is of my or your income.

  2. stainles says:
    September 14, 2012 at 8:39 am

    Point well taken. I guess I just can’t think like a drug lord.