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The United States is shooting for the Top Spot, Literally!!
- Posted on 09.17.09
This is an interesting article I stumbled on a few weeks back. Despite the current condition of our nation/global economy, The United States is leading the world in gun sales. Last year sales totaled nearly $40 billion accounting for nearly 70% of the worldwide weapons market share. Italy was second at 3.7 billion in sales. Now this comes at a time when a close relative of mine was shot last week and is fighting for his life as we speak. I've already lost a younger cousin to gun violence less than two months ago so you can imagine what me and my family are going through right now. Now my question is this; If this is the amount of guns we're selling abroad and exporting to different countries, Think about how many weapons we have here domestically? Imagine that!!
Here's a link to the full ariticle: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/07
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What puzzles me is that we are number one in gun sales!! You would think with the war on terror, and the anti violence act and numerous of others 'slogans' we have here in the US, we would actually be doing something positive but instead we're out to make a dollar. Granted its billions of dollars but the question arises what is the US doing with the money made from these said gun sales?
I am so shocked to learn those statistics! My heart goes out to your family <3