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SOFEX - Mass Murder Is BIG Business

Klamber | 17.01.2013 18:01 | Anti-militarism | Repression

EXPERIENCING THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX’S TRADE SHOW

By Shane Smith

The Dillon Aero M134D Gatling Gun
The Dillon Aero M134D Gatling Gun

Dillon Aero M134D Gatling Gun
Dillon Aero M134D Gatling Gun


Jordan and it's smiling tyrant King Abdullah has become the hub of the arms trade in the middle east. The arms trad is booming and as the narrator points out, most of these weapons will be used by governments against their own people.

 http://www.vice.com/vice-news/sofex-the-business-of-war-part-1/?utm_source=taboola



The Dillon Aero M134D Gatling Gun, a “six-barreled, electrically driven machine gun chambered in 7.62mm NATO that fires at a fixed rate of 3,000 shots per minute.” It was one of countless killing machines featured at SOFEX.

Klamber

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Guns don't kill people; People kill people

17.01.2013 20:35

Its an oldie, but it's still true.

Guns can be for defence or for offence. Many people don't agree/like that, but it is a basic fact of the world. Even before guns were invented, the same held true with other weapons.

People will ALWAYS find ways of killing each other.
The problem is not the guns; it is the fact that they want to kill each other.
The solution is not the guns; it is to stop people wanting to kill each other.

The figures show


Tyrants Have Killed Millions of People

18.01.2013 04:01


This article is not about individual self-defence, this article is about tyrannical governments that spend billions of dollars of taxpayers money to buy weapons that are used to suppress and often massacre their own people.

America is now hovering on the edge of civil war.

Nations in the MIddle East and Asia are actively oppressing and killing thier people now.

Klamber


...but people with guns kill people much more easily.

18.01.2013 08:24

Desire for power over others is certainly an issue to deal with at all levels of society.
Showing up 'governments' and regimes for dealing in and buying guns which can rip a crowd of protestors legs off before they can shout "please stop shooting us", is fair criticism though.

some kind of hapiness


Thankyou

18.01.2013 11:19

Thank you for posting this article and link. For what its worth this has to be one of the best documentries that ive seen in a long time.

amazing liveing person


Steel does not kill people, profit kills people

18.01.2013 22:54

That´s what the figures really show.

bamm