In an effort to help make Liberia a gun-free nation after 14 years of civil war, the Liberia Action Network on Small Arms (LANSA), is calling on Liberians to join ongoing campaign by the UNDP Small Arms Control Programme to make Liberia a gun-free society.
Per the
US Department of State:
[C]rime rates are still high, and resources for responding to emergencies of any kind are minimal. Liberia's local and national police forces are in the process of being reconstituted and still lack adequate capacity to prevent or to investigate criminal activity.
Sounds like the perfect set of conditions for heeding the UN's advice and giving up the means of defending yourself and your family, doesn't it?
2 comments:
I've been to a few bits of Africa though not Liberia. Victim disarmament looked to be working really well as long as you didn't pay attention to the hundreds of thousands of rapes and murders, mutilations, and general mayhem. Those might be statistical anomalies though. This could take years of expirementation to find out if it works or not and the UN needs more control groups most likely.
As long as you "care" enough it makes anything the right thing to do even when it isn't. The UN people care really really hard. Reckon we give them all crosses for bravery? The kind that come with large nails and an external hammer manipulator person to make sure they make a nice fit?
They have a better chance of making it language-free, since the behavior of other primates shows that we likely employed weapons before speech.
Only bureaucrats with an extraordinary lust for power could care enough to keep alive a pseudo-philosophy so obviously stupid and worthless as disarmament. So we're going to separate mankind from a tool that he has possessed for the last 500 years, a tool that defended life more often than it wasted it? Are we supposed believe that there was no murderous intent in the hearts of men, or lethal weapons, before the firearm?
Good luck with that, blue helmets. Since you're so damn sure of the prognosis, I trust you'll be arbitrating the dispute with your bare hands.
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