Amnesty International, Oxfam and an anti-weapons group have launched a campaign against the global arms trade. The agencies say AK-47 assault rifles have replaced spears for Ugandan farmers and they say weapons are so common in Somalia, that some children are named ’Uzi’ or ’AK.’
Personally I like ’Bushmaster’ or the old fashioned ’Smith’, or ’Wesson’
They say the U.S.-led war on terrorism, launched after Sept. 11, has fuelled weapons proliferation.
Ha ha. They had to mention Sept 11, WOT, and the US (the root of all evil of course)
"Governments, preoccupied with a search for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in their fight against ’terrorism’, have essentially ignored the real ’weapons of mass destruction’ - small arms. So they continue to proliferate, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives," said Rebecca Peters, Director of the International Action Network on Small Arms. In a report issued by the groups, they make the claim that increasing numbers of arms are being exported especially by the United States and Britain.
Hey, that’s like saying an increasing number of people are buying them.
It says more than 630 million small arms are in circulation around the world. The agencies are calling for an international arms treaty.
Small arms are not, by definition, weapons of mass destruction. I keep saying this, but none of the goobers making these ridiculous statements seems to notice. WMDs are specifically chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. Anything else doesn't fit into the category. The fact that Rebecca doesn't like them doesn't change that.
And why are we and the Brits exporting all those AKs? Stop that this instant! |
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