If science could find a way to harness the power of my brain, they could toast bread. Lightly.
If they harnessed mine, it would set fire to the atmosphere :3
Posted 15 April 2013 - 07:52 PM
If science could find a way to harness the power of my brain, they could toast bread. Lightly.
If they harnessed mine, it would set fire to the atmosphere :3
Posted 15 April 2013 - 07:54 PM
What you have to remember is that we have the biggest traceable pool of firearms. The vast majority of guns being sold aren't traced, since it's between criminal organizations and warzones. Ak-47's, RPG's, Makarov's etc. are the primary weapon types we find in the Middle East, Africa, even South America. These weapons were not developed by the U.S. but Russia and allied communist countries (or country's the saw as communist).
After the fall of the soviet unions many Russian war criminals fled and took a plethora of weapons with them; the Russians kept no official records of deployed forces around the world, who trained and armed many terrorists organizations, much as how our Green berets trained freedom fighters. The Green Berets engage in something called "nation building", where a few hundred or so will make a small, private army so to speak, with the green berets serving as general, trainers, snipers, medics, and everything else.
Thus it's likely the vast majority of illegal firearms are of Russian or communist origin. You need only look at the type to realize this.
We did in fact give many arms and much training to Egypt, and when push came to shove their military rebelled against their leaders. Perhaps us being in control of their military isn't so bad after all.
But while the U.S. sells the most traceable firearms, they do so legally, to legal vendors; most sales are domestic. They as a result are not arming illegal dealers.
He also said "the single biggest source of illegal handguns in the world, which is guns stolen from law-abiding American houses", so yes, that is what he said.