1) The United States it could be argued has an absolute advantage in the production of military weapons, or at least in some weapon systems. Using a completely free market perspective in terms of economic freedom in general, and in particular international trade, companies should be allowed to sell whatever and to whomever they want. Explain how this thinking is either valid or flawed.
According to the article, War is Business, the United State is the largest producer and exporter of military weapons including tanks, drones, and attacked helicopters. As mentioned before, the United States has an entire advantage when it comes to trade manufacture military equipment. They export to many countries including South Korea, Australia, U.A.E.,
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Companies should not be allowed to sell to whatever country they want because that could end up in something bad for many countries. For example, The United States have allies which I understand they buy military equipment from the US. On the other hand, The USA also has enemies, which I believe they could not sell them any equipment because in the long run the United States citizens could be affected by its own equipment. In my point of view, companies should not be allowed to sell military equipment to everybody because its country could be affected which is why all the rules and laws exist within this international business.
2) Does a United Nations treaty making for multinational regulations of arms exports make sense to you? Why do you think the United States isn’t enthusiastically supporting the agreement?
A United Nations treaty making for multination regulations of arms exports make total sense for me because somehow it could minimize the violence in some countries. The name of the treaty the United Nations is working on is “Arms Trade Treaty” (ATT), the purpose of this treaty is to have more control in the international arms trading because nowadays it has no international supervision. As mentioned before, the ATT would be helpful for some countries because it might decrease the violence within countries. The treaty would stop the sales to countries that are more likely to use weapons to
The United States is one of the youngest countries to be established but it become a military super power in a short amount of time. I believe that the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II really helped throw America into this military super power role that it now plays today. It is my belief that there are many different ways to explain how America became this military super power but I believe it can be shown with those four major events from US Military History.
The new laws that the government have made are very controversial because some people say that these laws conflict with our second amendment. These laws that were always required but are destroyed once a new law is passed are trying to create a successful law that allows the government to see who owns what gun. “The United Nations Program of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects” (“Statement”). The UN has wanted to form a new law because many new gun transactions have been made and the UN does not know who owns what gun. “The establishment of an international tracking certificate, which could be used to ensure UN monitoring of the export, import, transit, stocking ,and storage of legal small arms and light weapons” (“Statement”). Weapons are constantly being traded or handed off to different people and the UN does not know who owns which gun. Also if a person is purchasing and storing many weapons, the government can see this persons purchases and put a stop to that persons plan before a gun related crime occurs. This is why the UN wishes to promote a tracking certificate which monitors legal small arms and light weapons. One man named Josh Horwitz said “If the gun industry gave it half a chance, they’d save lives” (Hamilton). There are many new laws that are proposed and vetoed
In spite of all the efforts in which the government has procured to face this situation still, this is the day that no agreement has been reached since there are opposing interests of both those who support the idea that owning firearms is safer and on the other hand those who are against. Due to strong threats that major powers such as Russia and China have developed nuclear weapons that could be used as weapons of war. That is why on two occasions the US Senate has proposed to monitor more rejected for lack of support for such a proposal. Although there are about 1000 on the list of citizens are seated from the database of suspected terrorist. At present everyone has the right to own a firearm unless it is revoked by the government due to a federal crime. According to the second amendment of the US regarding the property of firearms. Armed control has been a controversial issue in politics. The gun lobby as
What is Gun Control? Is the arrangement of laws or approaches that manage the production, deal, exchange, ownership, change, or utilization of guns by regular people? The United States has 88.8 firearms for every 100 individuals, or around 270,000,000 weapons, which is the most elevated aggregate and per capita number of the world. 22% of Americans possess at least one firearm (35% of men and 12% of ladies). America 's unavoidable weapon culture stems to a limited extent from its pilgrim history, progressive roots, wilderness development, and the Second Amendment, which states: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Defenders of more firearm control laws express that the Second Amendment was planned for volunteer militias; that weapon violence would be decreased; that weapon restriction have dependably existed; majority of Americans, including firearm proprietors, support new firearm limitations. Opponents say that the Second Amendment secures an individual 's entitlement to claim firearms; that weapons are required for self-preservation from dangers extending from neighborhood crooks to outside trespassers; and that weapon possession dissuades wrongdoing as opposed to causes more illegal behavior. There were 497,632 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2014: 291,571 suicides (58.6% of total gun deaths); 185,718 homicides (37.3%); 10,569 unintentional gun deaths (2.1%);
Our nation has had such a significant number of issues because of an expansion measure of weapon proprietors, which has added to the ascent of wrongdoings and issues that we confront today. Our nation has around 65 million individuals who possess guns. This absurd number of guns in our country makes a requirement for weapon control. Weapon control laws can help take care of firearm issues that we have in America and make America a more secure place to live. Weapon control laws should mean to limit or direct guns by choosing who can offer, purchase and have certain firearms.
Weapon is a very big problem in the U.S. Nowadays everyone can buy a gun easily and very often guns are falling into hands of people who should not have them. Because of this many innocent people are dying every day. To forbid the sale of guns is not solve the problem, but it should require more strict background checks for at least two reasons; to protect innocent people of being killed, and protect the potential owner of the gun from criminal
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let's take arms”(Thomas Jefferson). Past events such as in December 2012, There was a major shooting in a facility killing about 26 people including children and staff members. Congress made a decision to gather up information on gun buyers. Not every state in the United States allow the right to carry an armed weapon. Such as California, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and in New York do not allow any type of armed weapon in the state. Every other state in the United States, allow the right to carry an armed weapon with a proof of a license. Weapons are very serious when coming to owning one
Ever since World War two we have feared destruction and what could be the aftermath of nuclear bombs. We had a whole era in history to dedicate being terrified of weapons of mass destruction. We had bomb drills, duck and cover drills. The United States had TV drills if an attack were to happen on United States soil. For many Americans this was not hysteria, but a reality that could happen.
Hence, the United States has approximately 13,000 military aircraft that were built in factories. Comparatively, China and Russia, the world's next-largest aerial powers, only have a total of 2,000 to 3,000 military aircraft each (Bender, 2015) that were produced in factories. Next, another point of contention is the desensitization of warfare as a result of
In today’s trend towards a more globalized world, there are many global entities that each state chooses or chooses not to participate in. Two of the largest International Global Organizations are the United Nations (UN) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); both of which the United States of America belongs to. There are stark contrasts between how the UN and NATO are run. For this reason, the United States’ foreign policy and defense may be better served in one of these entities compared to the other. Some may argue that the United States (US) is best represented with being part of the UN because it allows the US to discuss its ideas and plans with practically all states around the globe. On the other hand, people may argue that
With Honduras being the most dangerous country in the world,many of the laws on guns and violence in general need to be re-evaluated. Honduras has almost 850,000 weapons in the country but only around 258,000 are registered. The lax gun laws in Central America have caused there to be an epidemic of murders, 82 per 100,000 people, almost 80% of homicides being firearm related. Central America has 5 times more murders than Iraq a year. Being a part of the “Northern Triangle” along with El Salvador and Guatemala, Honduras is responsible for majority of the gun supply in places such as Mexico. According to the United States officials 50% of the arms trafficking is coming from this region.
participants in this conference created three organizations to help regulate the international economy. The first is the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which was established with the idea of regulating monetary policy. One of the benchmarks of the IMF is the stabilization of exchange rates and the loaning of money to help stabilize countries with balance of payments deficits. The second organization established was the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) whose main focus was on a liberal trading order.
This included the USA, for which the convention was not sufficiently far-reaching. Other countries, such as Germany and Japan, were no longer participating in international conferences. In total only 13 countries signed and ratified this convention.ac Moreover, it only became effective in October 1939, i.e. after World War II had started, and drug control priorities had been supplanted by more immediate foreign policy imperatives. In fact, it was another five decades before these topics were dealt with again in detail at the multilateral
The United States’ enormous economy enables it to fund the most powerful armed forces in the world. The nation’s annual military spending averages at $369 billions as of 2002 on just national defenses (Greenberg 546). How many countries in the world today, can afford to fund this type of military spending yearly? The answer is none. The US currently owned the most highly technological advanced weapons in the world, capable of almost anything and can target any country with a press of a button. Although most country already acquired this type of technology, the US’s is still the more dominating and with the most abundant in warheads. More importantly, The United States
For example, “the British arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, was being investigated for bribing Saudi officials into buy fighter planes, but the government intervened in the investigation citing national interests.” (Shah, Corruption) The involvement of the government is not a particularly new concept, seeing that many governments and armament firms work together to achieve profit goals and complete geopolitical agendas. For instance, Anup Shah studied that after the 1991 Persian Gulf crisis, the United States agreed to sell 80 advanced F16s to the United Arab Emirates. In return, the US was to be able to build military bases in the area with access to the only deep-water port capable of storing carriers in the Persian Gulf. Companies and governments export arms to many regions around the world; however, these places sometimes include war torn countries and brutal regimes. It was in the year 2000 “that U.S. contracts accounted for 49.7% of global sales … and the U.S. controlled half of the developing world 's arms market with $12.6 billion in sales.” (Stanton, Madsen) Companies end up selling to these areas of the world because “in order to make up for a lack of sales from domestic and traditional markets for military equipment, newer markets are being created or sought after.” (Shah, The Arms Trade is Big Business) To rid the industry of high rates of corruption and to stop companies from making secret deals with governments, the ATT needs to be better enforced amongst