The global arms trade, which produces two bullets for every person on the planet every year and the weapons that kill 1,500 people each day, is facing the first worldwide effort to control it. An unprecedented treaty that would attempt to restrict arms sales is expected to be drawn up at talks in the United Nations this week. A campaign for such an agreement, begun six years ago by Nobel laureates, faces attempts by the United States and Russia to water the treaty... [Independent (Dublin), via GunPolicy.org]
Global talks to disarm the populace are never rooted in public safety or individual freedoms. They are primarily methods of control.
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