Mass shootings at home, mass arms exports abroad: A look at the deadly role of US weapons across the globe

As U.S. lawmakers battle to arrive at a consensus on legislation to control gun violence in the wake of mass shootings, the U.S. also remains the greatest intercontinental supplier of arms, funneling billions in armed service weaponry into wars in Ukraine and Yemen. Until there is a severe curtailment of U.S. militarism, it will go on to prioritize U.S. lives more than life overseas, states Norman Solomon, national director of RootsAction and govt director of the Institute for General public Precision, whose new piece is headlined, “How About Some Gun Regulate at the Pentagon?” Intercontinental arms manage advocate Rebecca Peters describes U.S. initiatives to block weapons handle attempts at the United Nations and adds that New Zealand’s swift motion on gun regulate subsequent the Christchurch mosque killings in 2019 ought to give the U.S. impetus to do the same.

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.

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