Do we sell weapons to terrorist

and rebel groups that we do not

support?
By
George Witte
 Facts
Below are the percentages and the number in
billions of weapon sales in the world.
Ø United States $ 154.882 41%
Ø Russia $ 63.823 17%
Ø France $ 31.247 8%
Ø England $ 26.914 7%
Ø China $ 10.125 3%
Ø Germany $ 16.261 4%
Ø Italy $ 11.053 3%
Ø Other European $ 40.291 11%
Ø Others $ 22.849 6%
Ø
 http://
www.globalissues.org/article/74/the-arms-trade-is-big-business#GlobalArmsSalesBySupplierNation
 The Problem
• My point is with all
of these sales
and trades only
controlled by
mainly a few
countries we
need to make
sure that we keep
a close watch on
whose hands
these weapons
are getting into.
Because
countries and
governments
always have
allies and
enemies and
• In this photo you see a member of a
terrorist group holding an ak-47. The ak-
47 is the most popular and one of the
most cheap and powerful guns you can
buy and behind the old soviet union,
 The usual denying and not
finding the solution to the
problem
• When someone asks the
governments how come
this group has weapons
that were made and sold
by us and the
governments argument
to that is that they didn’t
sell them to the terrorist
group. But what they
don’t understand is that
when countries have
wars and weapons, when
the wars are over the
leave the weapons
behind. So the killing
“toys” are left around to
• The other really big problem is that these
terrorist and rebel groups get more than
just guns they get missiles and weapons
of mass destruction, which are the worst
of all. Now I must argue that most of
these missile were left over by the
Soviet Union. But I believe it is our duty
to make sure we find all these weapons
and make sure they do not get into the
wrong hands.
 • Most countries say
There Argument that the weapons
that are in the
hands of the
terrorist and rebel
groups are either
old weapons left
over from previous
wars and or
weapons sold to
countries by private
and might I ad
illegal arms dealers
as shown in the
Hollywood
production Lord of
War. And that they
 My Argument
• Now yes there are very big problems
out there but this is one of the
biggest, For gosh sakes almost all
of the genocides and terrorist
attacks are supplied by these
weapons which enables them to do
these horrible things. The fact that
millions have been killed through
these things and most of the time
the actual gun used to kill was sold
to them by on of the big sellers.
 Small Arms= Big Problems
http://www.iansa.org/media/wmd.htm

• Each year there are

around 3 million killed
by small arms, that is
like having the city of
Chicago be destroyed
each year. Why would
you let this go on. The
problem is in many
countries it is very
easy to get small
arms and sometimes
the people that get
them lets just say
have different views
My Proposed
Conclusion
• People would
argue that to
monitor these
weapon and
whose hands
they get into
would cost
quite a bit of
money that
we don’t have.
Well out of the
U.S’s 291
billion dollar
defense
budget, we
could take a
billion or so
 X
Continued Conclusion
• Why don’t we get
the attackers at
the source or not
even give them
the option to
attack. This would
help so much and
we wouldn’t have
to worry about
these surprise
attacks. And we
could also make
contracts so that
we sell the
weapons, that the
buyers must not
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