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submitted 7 months ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

"All the guns here are from the US, everybody knows it. If the US wants to stop this, they could easily do it one month!" He pleads: "We are asking the US to give us a chance to live, just give us a chance."

For a country that does not manufacture weapons, a UN report in January found every type of gun was flooding Port-au-Prince: high-powered rifles such as AK47s, 9mm pistols, sniper rifles and machine guns.

The weapons are fuelling the staggering surge in Haiti's gang-related violence.

There is no exact number for how many trafficked firearms are currently in Haiti.

The UN report said some estimates put it at half a million legal and illegal weapons here as of 2020.

It reported that guns and ammunition were being smuggled in from land, air and sea from US states such as Florida, Texas and Georgia.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

I can't think of a real-world example of that.

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 7 months ago

Hell I'd argue mutually assured destruction drives people batshit insane.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago
[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 7 months ago

Still, seems like an improvement on the path humanity was on of having periodic global bloodbaths over individual human egos and the nationalism others attach to it. We still have bloodbaths over those issues, don't get me wrong, just smaller scale overall.

[-] bhmnscmm@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It works until it doesn't. Then we all face annihilation.

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In my opinion the only real move is to hope is things keep spiraling upwards.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

And nobody please mention Switzerland as an example. Yes, we have lots of guns but they aren't meant for self-defense outside some very narrow exceptions. Thankfully we can trust our police to do their work and they are usually very well trained.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Too late.

https://lemmy.world/comment/8873503

Unsurprisingly, he also talked about "gun grabbers" in Switzerland.

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