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US-Canada Gun Smuggling Shows Need for a Global Gun Trade Treaty
29 April 2010
Women Make News, Editorial
One third of all guns in the world are in the U.S. And half the guns used to commit crimes in Canada come from south of the border. So yes, this country needs and wants an International Arms Treaty.
"Here in Canada we live next to a country with as many guns as people and those guns are killing Canadians. This is the main argument for an international agreement," asserted Coalition for Gun Control president Wendy Cukier during an April 22 conference in Toronto.
The... (GunPolicy.org)