Former Portland Gangster In the Middle of a Mexican Drug War

AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle

There are worse fates than being snowbound in Portland.

Finding yourself not in Portland's snow but in the middle of a Mexican drug war is one of them. Slate has a story on that very possibility today.

Here's the first paragraph:

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