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UN target practice.(Between The Lines)
ITEM: "Some 639 million guns are floating around the world despite a UN crackdown on illegal arms deals and a campaign to destroy weapons in former war zones, according to a new report," reported Reuters in the New Zealand Herald for July 9th.
The weapon survey was released "during a weeklong UN conference convened to promote enforcement of a 2001 global action plan intended to stem the bloodshed from small arms. Arms control activists told the conference ... that two years after the plan's adoption, more than 500,000 people a year are still being killed and millions more injured by small arms, whether in war, crimes, accidents or suicides."
BETWEEN THE LINES: The problem is not ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, UN target practice.(Between The Lines)