:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Saturday, November 08, 2003 ::

The Yale Herald - Nov 7, 2003 - The real threat to world peace: "Of the 49 major conflicts that have broken out since 1990, light weapons were the only arms used in 46 of them, with only one —the 1991 Gulf War—dominated by heavy conventional weapons."

"Trade in illegal guns is as dangerous as nuclear and chemical proliferation. It is as big a threat to global security as WMD. Small arms and light weapons are the real instruments of war—from the civil wars that rage within countries carrying the label of 'failed state' to the wars police officers wage with criminal networks in countries gripped in vicious cycles of violent crime. The silent victims, irrespective of the nature of the conflict in question, are the millions of innocent civilians killed or maimed by the tools of violence. The World Health Organization's World Report on Violence and Health supports the oft-cited rough estimate of 300,000 annual deaths from small arms in armed conflict. These figures are far higher than the number of people who have perished from the use of weapons of mass destruction since World War II, including in Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

:: Jim Nichols 11/08/2003 12:19:00 AM [+] ::
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