roachboy

from the viewpoint of the united nations, which has to address the carnage caused by the international small arms trade, it's hardly surprising that such actions would be underway. i have no specific information about the treaty itself however.

turns out not to exist. never mind.


if it exists and has provisions like those noted above, though, i would be fine with it.
nation-states are already de facto relics.
it's seemed to me for some time that the nra is more a chamber of commerce-type organization for the small arms manufacturing industries in the united states as a membership organization and that the interests of the former are protected by manipulating the latter in the direction of the black helicopter set.

but as an international traffic the consequences of which are simply overwhelming levels of carnage because so many of these weapons go to arm militias in war situations---something has to be done. the issue has only tangentially to do with nra claims about all these eminently sensible american sportspersons and their inalienable rights to imagine themselves safe from harm and free because they own gun commodities.

there is a conversation to be had about the international small arms trade and the ways in which seeing gun questions through that optic dissolves almost everything about the nra's merkin-politik.
i can muster a lot of data about the international small arms trade if it'd be helpful later.

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