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Monk06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 04:12 PM
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Which Country is the world's largest small arms proliferator?

World Small Arms sales 2006





You guessed it the US of A by several orders of magnitude


http://www.globalfirepower.com/list_smallarms_export.asp


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youngdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 04:18 PM
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1. Yeah, but jeez, look how low our murder rate is compared with the rest of the countries on the list
Oh, wait....

That's right.

:sarcasm:

We've got the highest murder rate of any country that makes guns on the list.

Weird, eh? Who would have thought that filling society with guns would INCREASE the number of incidents utilizing them? :eyes:

As the great Bill Hicks said:

"There is no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it, and NOT having a gun and NOT shooting someone...and you'd be a fool and a communist to make the connection"
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 04:38 PM
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2. Obscene. Totally obscene.
Why is this country so into death and destruction?
533 million dollars. Well over half a Billion dollars. Think of the health care that could buy. The education. The amount of food for the hungry and starving. Housing. How much of this $533,000,000 is tax payer money?
Want to save on taxes? Stop making and exporting killing machines.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 08:33 PM
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4. It's one of the few exports we still have.
How sad is that?
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 08:14 PM
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3. Yep, we've got our priorities straight.
:puke:
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