Posted on 07/17/2009 7:32:16 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- The biggest importer of small arms in the world isn't a rogue or war-torn nation. It's us, the United States.
According to a report out this month, we are the largest exporter of small arms too, making America the largest small-arms dealer in the world.
The annual Small Arms Survey says the U.S. "continues to drive the global small-arms trade, remaining the largest importer of pistols and revolvers, sporting shotguns and small-caliber ammunition." Indeed, greater demand for small arms in the United States was responsible for 48% of the worldwide increase in imports from 2000 to 2006.
We aren't talking about tanks or missiles here. This isn't about national defense or our military, which by far is the largest in the world, let's not forget. This is about the right to bear arms -- you, me, our neighbors.
The Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, which produces the annual survey says, "Firearms are also important contributors to crime and societal violence. They are used in 40% of homicides worldwide. The prevalence of small-arms misuse, both in conflict and crime, is leading analysts to examine the economic costs of gun violence, in an effort to assess the cost-effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce it."
In other words, small-arms take a tremendous toll on society. Intervention and all-out prevention can mitigate that loss.
To be sure, there are many defenders of people's right to bear arms, most notably the National Rifle Association. The NRA holds itself out as "America's foremost defender of Second Amendment rights."
But what happens when bearing arms actually begins to cost society more than the "right" to bear arms?
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
That number does not account for the militia.
The rabid gun controllers are a small subset of the Left’s big cult who are so aggresively anti-social that would rather see you and your family die to make their point and cash their checks. After following the left for some years and actually reading what they write there are quite a few gun enthusiasts on the left, but they are scare shatless over a confrontation with a true lefty sociopath so they never engage or dispute the loudmouths.
Militia is not accounted for by Paramilitary???
Thank you for keeping this picture in circulation.
This picture represents millions of innocents as this poor victim.
No way! Paramilitary dresses up like regulars and runs drills and exercizes.
The militia is all the people!
"The militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves, ... all men capable of bearing arms;..."
— "Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republic", 1788 (either Richard Henry Lee or Melancton Smith).
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."
— Tench Coxe, 1788.
USC Title 10, Chapter 13
Sec. 311. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are -
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
Welcome to the militia!
You know that. I know that. I'm sure even the a**clown who wrote the article knows that. But being as the truth is kryptonite to the anti-RKBA agenda, they have no problem stooping to outright lies.
You can't use a rational argument against a liar. That's why I've stopped arguing with them and simply tell them that if they want my guns, they should have the courage of their convictions and come to my house to take them. I tell them don't send a cop or ATF agent to do their dirty work, they themselves need to come to my door and demand I turn over my weapons. That usually stops the debate in its tracks.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
LOL, what are they doing? Squirrel hunting? Good thing they all have their lights attached.
On the other hand if 0bamanation wants to reduce population like they claim, it benefits them to stampede us into buying weapons and ammo so when he brings the military back to U.S. they will have less difficulty shooting us.
For liberals, opinion and fact are interchangeable when it suits their purpose. If a liberal tells you the sky is blue the best course of action is to look up.
The weirded beardo who wrote this article would be well advised to do some fact checking before writing.
Gun ownership and concealed carry of said guns lowers crime.
Less crime, less societal cost.
That is news to me.
“But what happens when bearing arms actually begins to cost society more than the “right” to bear arms?”
Hey, wanna make the same application to the printed press? What is the cost to the environment for all the paper used by the free press? Without the 2nd, the 1st would dissappear.
Woohoo!
We’re No. 1!
We’re No. 1!
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