They’re disgusting and threaten the existence of mankind.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

Regarding weapons sales, they’re disgusting and threaten the existence of mankind, most of whose leadership seems unaware the dangers don’t justify what they perceive as benefits. Each night, even in America, people go to sleep hungry and live in dilapidated housing or on the streets, while millions more people lack medical care, yet we inundate our military and the military of other countries with weapons.

Where are our values?

U.S. Companies Sold $247 Billion in Weapons Last Year
http://www.allgov.com/US_and_the_World/ViewNews/US_Companies_Sold_247_Billion_Dollars_in_Weapons_Last_Year_110224

[indepat]

1. Where are our values? Our values are in the choices we make as individuals and collectively as

nation and society. :patriot:

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

4. So I guess it's all comes down to money...

So what if some people die a violent death because if it. It's just the price of doing business. Sad, but true.

[Xenotime]

2. what do you expect from a country, who as a whole, is an instrument of death?

[MilesColtrane]

3. "Where are our values?"

[damntexdem]

5. Oh, weapons -- I thought you meant Repubicans.

;-)

[Lex1775]

6. It probably won't make you feel any better

But this isn't anything new. Historical evidence shows a thriving weapons trade as far back as the time when Ur and Uruk where the center of the world. It is just people doing what people do. One person has a perceived need, someone else has a perceived solution...