UN target practice.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 according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new report," reported Reuters in the New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. 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 small arms, firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Early Small Arms The first small arms came into general use at the end of the 14th cent. . Arms control arms control Limitation of the development, testing, production, deployment, proliferation, or use of weapons through international agreements. Arms control did not arise in international diplomacy until the first Hague Convention (1899). 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 Between the lines can refer to:
There should be no doubt where the gun grabbers have their sights set--ominously noting that, by "any measure, the United States is the most armed country in the world." There are plans to deal with this, including international registration and regulation of civilian firearms. Eventually, personal ownership would be outlawed. |
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