It's interesting to see that it's not just an American problem. Also, it's fascinating that the old mechanism of "gun flow" accounts for increasing gun proliferation around the world.
York’s Colloquium on the Global South will feature a lecture titled “The Global Small Arms Epidemic: A Public Health Perspective” by Professor Wendy Cukier of Ryerson University.Cukier, who has a York PhD in management science and is co-founder of Canada’s Coalition for Gun Control, will focus on the role that guns play in global violence. Violence fuelled by small arms kills hundreds of thousands of people each year with many more injured.
The World Health Organization has labelled violence a global pandemic. Cukier will examine the shape of gun violence which varies from region to region. It is estimated that more than 200 thousand gun deaths occur in countries which are “at peace” each year: 35,000 in Brazil; 10,000 in South Africa; and 30,000 in the USA. In Colombia the number is about 20,000 and it is estimated that in 1998-99, the number of violent deaths from small arms in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala exceeded those that had occurred in the respective civil wars.
Virtually every illegal small arm begins as legal small arm.
What's your opinion? Can lawful gun owners continue to not only deny any responsibility for this "gun flow," but actually insist that they should not be inconvenienced as a result? I say "no" on both counts.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
"The World Health Organization has labelled violence a global pandemic."
ReplyDeleteThey might as well label breathing as a global pandemic as well. As long as people are breathing, there will be violence.
"Violence fueled by small arms kills hundreds of thousands of people each year with many more injured."
ReplyDeleteWow, here is the whole inanimate object causes violence argument again. I'm surprised.
"What's your opinion? Can lawful gun owners continue to not only deny any responsibility for this 'gun flow,' but actually insist that they should not be inconvenienced as a result?"
I can assure you that I have no responsibility for what happens in some other country.
I am trying to help. In a couple of weeks I will be buying a firearm made in Brazil. That is one more gun out of the hands of Brazilian murderers. Can the antis here say they have done as much to stop the gun flow? Nope. If you really cared you would all buy as many guns as possible and store them "properly" so that they don't get into the hands of criminals? Are you doing that? Nope. Hypocrites!
--Not Jade Gold.
http://gunloon.com
Mikeb says:
ReplyDeleteWhat's your opinion? Can lawful gun owners continue to not only deny any responsibility for this 'gun flow,' but actually insist that they should not be inconvenienced as a result?
I'd like to see who's going to stop us from saying that we're not responsible for the killing, and that we must not permit our rights to be trampled because of the killing, tough guy.
You can have my keyboard when you pry it from my cold, dead, hands, tough guy.