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How the US Drives Gun Exports and Fuels Violence Around the World

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How America Drives Gun Exports and Fuels Violence Around the World

"The US Commerce Department has played booster and concierge to the firearm industry, even as America’s mass shootings horrify the world and gun-crime rates rise in many of the importing countries."

Original article is a Bloomberg piece available at - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-made-gun-exports-shootings-violence-sig-sauer/

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I think it would be good to mention the source (bloomberg.com) when linking to archive.org.
- Yeah, that's fair, I was being lazy and in a rush when I posted this but I'll do an edit
  
  you can edit titles on lemmy
There's literally Vice docs on YouTube where they talk to the cartel and every single member is like yeah we love the US' gun laws. It makes easy af for them to get weapons.
Not sure America has a monopoly on violence.
- Violence itself? No, definitely not. Profit from violence? Very nearly.
  
  And whether or not we have a monopoly, we contribute to it in unacceptable ways. The United States having bad policies that harm innocent people doesn't mean other governments don't also have bad policies that harm innocent people, but those other governments' policies absolutely do not justify turning a blind eye to our own.
  
  Still incorrect. Nearly everyone who commits violence stands to profit.
Over the last two decades, the company has re-tooled itself from a niche maker of hunting rifles and high-end pistols into an American mass producer of inexpensive, rapid-fire weaponry.
Bloomberg doesn't even try to hide it's bias, try to make it sound like sig has turned into high-point and is just pumping out weapons. They have never been and will never be inexpensive lol. "Rapid fire weaponry" you mean semi-automatic like most weapons since the early 1900s.
I love how they focus on gun crimes, and no crimes. Like the tool is more important than the act.
- No shit, it is almost as if the article is about gun exports specifically. They should put that in the title.
  
  Yeah, it's just straight up propaganda, incredibly obvious propaganda at that.
- Well, the idea isn't to stop your citizens from killing each other. That doesn't really matter. But you can't have them have tools that would limit your control of them. No guns, no right, no problems.
  
  Yeah, ok, the US Department of Commerce is buddying around with arms manufacturers at conventions in Vegas because they want to protect the ability of peoples' movements to resist their governments, this definitely isn't about arming right wing death squads financed by oligarchs or anything like that /s
  
  ...Doesn't the millitary still vastly out-arm any armed citizen in today's age, both in actual weapons and in training to use said weapons?

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