Disrupting Illicit Arms

Google Ideas INFO Summit - Disrupting Illicit Arms:
This panel looked at the illicit arms trade and discussed how small arms, such as the AK47, are obtained, moved, and where they end up.

Lightning presentation: Robert Muggah, Principal of SecDev Group and Research Director at Igarape Institute.

Panel:
Ian Biddle, arms expert
Okello Sam, Former Abducted Child Soldier in the Uganda National Liberation Front
Sylvia Longmire, author of Cartel
Moderator: Robert Muggah

Lightning Presentation: Peter Thum, Founder Fonderie 47, will shared his program which takes stockpiles of AK-47s, turns them into high-end jewelry, and then uses the profits to go out and destroy stockpiles of weapons

Note: data presented in Robert Muggah's lightning presentation on the value of the international small arms/ammunition trade and the global distribution of small arms/ammunition holdings are drawn from the Small Arms Survey yearbooks (2012, 2010). Data presented on patterns of armed violence are drawn from the Geneva Declaration´s Global Burden of Armed Violence (2011).

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[RamaRendezvoo]

Odd that the Mexican Drug "Cartels" are mentioned in (Disrupting Illicit Arms) several times, but there's no mention of our ambiguously criminalizing US Drug Laws which greatly benefit the Cartels, US Law Enforcement & the Corporations running US Prisons in victimizing NonCriminals for profit. Repealing corrupt US Drug Laws - 'DECRIMINALIZATION' would help destroy Mexican Drug Cartels, but No mention of that in this video. Two obvious signs of evil are Ambiguity & Obscurity - here's slick proof.

[Jeff Tormey]

In the 20th century, governments murdered over 100 Million disarmed civilians. Governments have always been the greatest mass murderers, which is why the US should never bow to the wishes of the UN to disarm our civilians. Enslavement always follows disarmament of civilians. The CFR, who's logo is on the slides, would love to disarm US civilians so we could not resist their designs for world governenance via the UN.

[flows0002]

They speak of stats when referring to guns, but the global death stats state disease, Hunger, Auto Accidents, Blunt instruments, War, Medical error, abortions cause more death. Doctors cause more death then guns, look it up. These guys with their headsets and hip clothes think that taking away guns will help and they know better than law abiding citizens. They do not have the balls to tackle the real issue of human suffering because big banks, big pharma, big corp all have them by the balls.

[siggyboss]

Yes.

[caviper1]

I think you mean unknown "population" size, right?

[Luis Ulloa]

Guns are one of the businesses of the U.S. in the world and the problem is not the U.S. citizen carrying guns because there is a control and the database will know who is the owner. The problem is the illegal sales of thousands of U.S. weapons that are authorized for sale outside the U.S. and arrive in Mexico and other countries of the world. It does not end the problem as the drug that enters U.S. by the dependence that are as consuming drugs and arms business like the movie Lord of War.

[Luis Ulloa]

Operation Fast and Furious was a channel of introduction of weapons into Mexico that reached illicit hands. Many U.S. operations are funded with the same gun sales in Mexico to operate or infiltrate drug groups but doing illegal business with the weapons that they kill innocent citizens in Mexico.

[RosenKrantz666]

look no further than govt and wall st. military ind. complex.

there's no mystery: it's always been govt, MIC and intel networks that supply proxy wars.

[siggyboss]

70% of an unknown sample size is worthless data. One can not extrapolate such data to the bigger picture. For example, assume the total size is 100. A same size of 4 is selected and 75% of them have an attribute concerning origin. Thus, only 3 out of 100 actually have that attribute for certain. The other 97% is an unknown. In gist, the analysis is biased.

[Andy Smith-Thomas]

"Enslavement always follows disarmament of civilians." I call bullshit. There are many countries around the world that do not allow their civilian population to own guns, my own home country included. I am not enslaved.

[utubesgai]

Let's face it, people who say such things about the second amendment have 9 times out of 10 never fired or even laid hands on a real gun in their life. Also, more often then not they don't live in the US and all the information they have gathered on the US and firearms is from the news. Why these people feel the need to act like experts on something they have 0 real understanding of is beyond me.

[pokenei]

Let's face it, the american constitution that give people the right bear arms is old, no longer valid, and therefore should be scrapped. To maintain that bleep in the constitution is just stupid. Those who argued against banning guns are either criminals, hunters, gun dealers, or idiots.

Although non-banned, Canada has much more strict gun control, and therefore much fewer murders or deaths by gunshot. And much of the illegal guns circulating in Canada are in fact coming from the States.