[white trash redneck]

Sounds like good news to me! And I like to think that, in a small way, I am helping to contribute to the "stockpiling of such weapons" in civilian hands.

[dead]

I get the impression that they think this is bad news.

[Redcloak]

But this means that 4.6 billion people are lacking arms. The United States, as the world's only remaining superpower, should do something about this. Forget third world debt relief; those people need guns!

[G-Bear]

And this is supposed to be bad because.........?

Forget Care and USAID, send 'em M-16's!

[Dick Vomer]

WE're number 1---WE're number 1---WE're number 1---WE're number 1---USA!---USA!!!---USA!---USA!!!---USA!---USA!!!

[mamelukesabre]

I agree. I too am working on my own stockpile. I've also been known to coerce my father into purchasing firearms and have a motive for doing so: I get his stockpile when he passes! hehe. I've tried the same tactics on my mother, but with no success. Right after the 9-11 incedent, I convinced my father to buy two new semi auto pistols and some reloading equipment. I figure to see a return on my efforts in about 2 decades or less. I know, that's terrible, but I can't help it.


Actually, I don't see the numbers as being that impressive. There are....what? 4 or 5 billion people on the planet?....maybe more? So the world manufactures 8 million per year and destroys 2 million per year....big deal! That's a net gain of 6 million per year.

At what rate does the world population increase each year? Is it more or less than 6 million persons per year?

You also have to consider the average useful lifespan of a firearm. It is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 years. Less for these modern lightweight polymer handguns. That means that even though the world is destroying only 2 million per year, there is a greater number of firearms becoming obsolete or too worn to use each year and we don't really know how many that is.

At this point, without doing any more searching, I would have to guess that the small arms(serviceable) per capita figure world wide is dropping like a rock.

[Reactionary]

Small arms are "proliferating?"

That sounds suspiciously like they're breeding, doesn't it?

[pabianice]

The recorded number of small arms around the world rose 16 percent last year, to 639 million, according to a new survey.

And the problem is...?

[GluteusMax]

"It's trendy for governments to say they are taking back weapons, but the numbers show that not that many arms are actually being destroyed," he said. "Our conclusions are that the sale and stockpiling of such weapons is much larger than we imagined."

This term needs refuting everytime it appears anywhere. It implies that the government grants the priviledge of borrowing their weapons. The government, at least in the USA, didn't own the weapons originally to "take them back" from the citizen owning them. Perhaps in third world nations the new owners took them from the armed forces they originally fought for when the revolution was over or whatever, but every time we see government "buy-back" programs or other such nonsense HERE we need to set the record straight.

[Kermit]

"Civilians owned 377 million of those weapons."

Hmmm, I thought Americans owned 400 million firearms, what's happened?

[dixierat22]

"That initial survey was issued just before the United Nations conference last July to forge an international agreement tightening controls on such weapons. "

As long as the UN is doing what's in bold, we all have to keep stockpiling! It's the only way to guarantee that we, the people, keep our freedom!

[oldfart]

I just wish I could get them to 'proliferate' in my closet!!!

[PsyOp]

An Armed planet is a polite planet.

[Don Myers]

bttt

[backhoe]

There's a hidden agenda behind this "report":

And they have "Useful Dupes" helping them:

-A Scourge of Small Arms--

Destroying Excess Small Arms and Light Weapons

Tired of this cr@p?
Sign this:

American Policy Center on-line Declaration of Independence from the U.N.