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Weapons a big threat

The weapons which could be easily carried by a person are called small weapons. These weapons are often called light weapons. Pistols, light machine guns, grenade are some of its common example. These weapons are easy to use and hide; thus it is liable for the crime and terrorist attack throughout the whole world. It is found out that about 90 percentage of the total conflict death is associated by the use of small weapons. Also the transfer of these weapons is not illegal and it is not guaranteed that those who get these weapons would use it for good purpose. Moreover, these weapons are cheap and almost anyone can buy it. And also weapons may be purchased or stolen from secured government stockpiles, underground, weapons industry or recovered from the battlefield follow battle.

There are hundreds of millions of these weapons are in circulation. Even though the worldwide deal in small weapons may in the end of liberal, it is an important to acknowledge the significant progress of recent years in establishing instruments and processes at the international, regional and national levels. Due to the use of this illegal weapon 1300 peoples are killed daily by small arms and light weapons. Even the government failed to provide criteria for the transfer of the weapons or use of light weapons. According to the "U.N Secretary- General" Kofi Annan calls small arms “weapons of mass destruction in slow motion.” The issues of how small arms threaten communities around the world will be discussed at a "United Nations General Assembly" conference scheduled to begin today. ( Coker; para.16 )

Violence associated with the large number of small weapons is all the time more familiar as having harmful effects on development goal and the strength of a country. Not all these weapons are reported officially. In 1996 US state departments licensed to export $470 million light military weapons. This is really a large volume of the weapons. Another main threat of small weapons is due to black market. Millions of weapons are illegally sold in black market. These markets do not follow any legal policies. The first global conference on the dangers of unregulated small arms was held in 2001. The legal frame work to limit the manufactured or transfer of pistol, short guns or rifles is still not clear. Thus, the awareness of the dangers of these weapons has increased simultaneously. More than 20,000 persons are killed in United States. Each year by small weapons and about 11 children in United States are murdered by guns every day. According to the "Government of Canada” they are seeking to have restrictions on the manufacture and export of guns from that country”. (Drinan, Pg: 450)

The use of these weapons should be controlled to reduce the risk to global threats. Government and United Nations fire arms protocol should be involved to limit in the trafficking of the illegal weapons. If anyone wants to carry weapon for their safety they should be provided a license stamped by the government. There should be strict penalty for those people who carry the weapons illegally.For example: Washington on march 15, the peacekeeping mission in Haiti had its first victim when a US marine was shot by small-caliber pistol as he patrolled a stronghold of support for ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The United States must learn from past mistakes with regard to small arms. It is closer than Iraq and Afghanistan; it cannot be ignored by America’s policymakers or citizens.

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