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Efforts to Reduce Global Gun Trafficking, Gun Love 'Pitiful,' Says New Film
21 January 2009
New York Times, Movie Review
"I'd rather lose one son than my gun, because with a gun I can save my family," declares a frightened Congolese villager in "Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms," a depressing, scattershot survey of the spread of weaponry around the world, especially in Africa.
This Dutch film, directed by Sander Francken, shifts abruptly back and forth between a ground-level view of how small arms have affected poor countries and a throw-up-your-hands analysis of the inability of any... (GunPolicy.org)