Posted on 05/16/2006 1:08:09 PM PDT by holymoly
GUN violence is a global epidemic that kills an estimated 1000 people a day and stronger international controls on the sale and movement of arms are needed, a report released today said.
"If 1000 people a day were dying of avian flu, the world would sit up and take notice," said the report, published by IANSA, a group of agencies including Amnesty International and Oxfam.
The report was released ahead of the United Nations Small Arms Review Conference, a summit of world leaders to discuss arms legislation that is held every five years and meets in New York next month.
Gun violence, and the heavy toll it takes of human lives, is being ignored, IANSA director Rebecca Peters told reporters.
IANSA estimates that there are about 640 million small arms in the world, 59 per cent of them in the hands of civilians.
As many as 1.8 million people have been shot dead since the last UN review in 2001, it said.
The report said the problem was especially bad in developing countries, where easy access to guns, combined with widespread poverty, often created a lethal situation.
Ms Peters urged the United Nations to impose global regulations on arms distribution and set minimum guidelines for national rules on gun control.
"The conference must stop looking at this in such a fragmented way," she said.
The report recommended international cooperation to control the sale and transfer of firearms.
"The availability and misuse of guns, the high firearm death rates in many parts of the world and the means by which guns are spread around the world, are aspects of a common global problem - the uncontrolled proliferation of small arms," it said.
The perception that there is a difference between legal and illegal weapons is a dangerous fallacy, the report said.
Large numbers of firearms were manufactured legally, then stolen or bought illegally - yet little was done when an arms shipment went missing.
"It should be that when guns move into illegal hands, an alarm should go off," said Ms Peters.
So? Victim disarmament kills 30,000 a day.
Yawn...
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A former supporter of gun control; "These two reports were done with essentially the same criteria and methods, and they clearly show that while selected violent crime rates rose 100% in the UK, they fell 65 % in the U.S. During this time, Britain outlawed private ownership of firearms, while over 70 million additional civilian firearms were sold in the U.S. (4) At the very least, a reasonable person is forced to conclude that availability of firearms to the general public is not a contributing factor to any increase in crime." Comments (66)
Take the AKs away from the Sudanese and you will cut that number down to just a couple a day.
Wish I'd said THAT!
First,
365,000 a year sounds like a lot but it's only 0.000056% of the worlds population. I think the common cold kills far, far, far, far more people then that world wide.
Secondly, when did guns start killing people on there own?
If guns have indeed started killing people without anyone pulling the trigger I for one think those guns should be brought to justice and to a research lab pronto!
While I find that number hard to believe, I can say alot more definitively that EVERY DAY, about 25 to 60 (numbers are all over the map) of innocents are killed or maimed at the hands of Islamofascists around the world, and in this case, the numbers are well documented: thereligionofpeace
Ms Peters and Kofi..."BITE ME!"
Some background on Dr. Peters...
http://judicial-inc.biz/Vilaes_Beattie_supplement.htm
Also earlier FR post on her
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624168/posts
She had debate with Wayne LaPierre
http://www.iansa.org/action/nra_debate.htm
-Samuel Adams in arguing for a Bill of Rights, from the book "Massachusetts," published by Pierce & Hale, Boston, 1850, pg. 86-87.
The U-nited N-azis encourage the killing of the unborn.How many is that per day??HYPOCRITES!
Would they mind recalculating those "statistics" after removing any/all gang-banger hits and drug dealer related incidents?
I didn't think so.
Moonbat
Anyone know why Martins' post was pulled? His pic and comments seemed relatively harmless.
Good question. Wasn't even off-topic.
"By law abiding citizens, I am sure. Right???"
Blue-haired ladies at church bingo games, no doubt.
Yeah, an Historic Moment for ol' Marty.
I didn't get to see the T&A pics! NO FAIR!! Put em' back up just a little bit.
Socialists in Asia, Europe and Africa have been responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000,000 in the twentieth century alone. That works out to about 2857 deaths per day, easily drawfing the 1000/day claim by these liars.
As other posters will surely observe: Should these freedom stealers try to disarm us, there were be a momentary increase in "gun violence".
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