Santos embarks on international anti-gun campaign .

[Judi Lynn]

Santos embarks on international anti-gun campaign .
Thursday, 17 January 2013 06:23 Rob Edmond

Colombia's president Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday announced that he will lead a campaign aimed at tackling illegal arms trafficking.

Santos said that he wanted to spearhead an initiative aimed at reducing gun-related violence in Latin America at the upcoming meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to be held in Chile later this month.

"From all sides we are hearing how organized crime and the presence of all kinds of weapons in the hands of individuals is generating more and more violence. We see the case of Newtown in the United States (where a shooter killed 28 people including himself). At this moment, there is a discussion of a new policy in the United States regarding this problem," Santos said.

Colombia's head of state will need consensus from other Latin American countries if his bid to decrease the amount of weapons that find their way into the hands of criminals.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/27737-santos-embarks-on-international-anti-gun-campaign.html

[flamingdem]

1. Now that's something coming out of Colombia

with its violent history. Interesting.

[naaman fletcher]

2. Sounds like just PR

The reality is that the global trade in weapons is VERY highly regulated despite what people read in the newspapers.

There are very, very few weapons that are snuck into countries in some manner as movie would protray.

USUALLY, weapons come in because a corrupt government legally buys them, and then distributes them to people who shouldn't have them.

For example, let's say egypt buys a bunch of AK-47's from Ukraine in a fully transparent manner, but then the older guns that are being replaced are covertly given to militants or something.

There is really nothing that Santos or the UN can do about that.

[ehrenfeucht games]

3. "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, their spears into pruning hooks, ...

... and their AK-47s into guitars..."

Isaiah 2:4