Why don't all these starving people sell their weapons and buy some food with the proceeds? Or am I naive?

Question

I myself would make them a good offer for a couple of "Burglar-welcomers".
Has no-one ever thought of this simple idea for raising cash?

I noticed that a few years ago BBC TV had a Heart-rending Documentary on Ethiopia.
EVERYONE gave money.
And Ethiopia bought $4,000,000,000 of Arms from Russia.
Naive?

Answer 1

i agree with u totaly i have often said this .becouse from what i see(i could b wrong mind u)of these countrys people are so busy jumping about with guns arguing about things yrs old they have forgot about the present there lives and that of there children who will then grow up feeling the same.

Answer 2

Yes, the answer s food, naturally. However, and sad to say, the butchers who deal in arms, with the connivence of the Governments of their countries, sell to both sides, with this specifically designed to engender distrust, thus disabling any thoughts of being the one to put your gun down first.

Get foreign armies out of countries where there is no clear UN mandate to assist, and put a stop to countries and individuals selling arms, on pain of being charged as a war criminal, with a quick trial and then pushed up against a wall within the hour.

Once the guns stop flowing, and ammunition, they only force left will be shouting, and that too will fall into a hush in time, and then the talking can begin, seeking a solution that has nothing whatever to do with arms.

Governments who sell arms are the main criminals who start wars, and where these wars last for a long time r spread, especially across borders, the arms dealings are laughing all the way to the bank.

This is why you have so called 'terrorist' coming to your countries with bombs, because you went to thirs first, bringing your arms and bombs, laying waste to peace.

The voctor writes the history, calling whoever they will a terrorist and killing all who oppose them.

This should be remembered should the US and UK ivade Iran, or drop bombs there, for in killing just one child, no captured soldier of these countries would deserve any trial or mercy, but be simply handed over to the family of the murdered, unarmed this time, as their child was, and then the family will do as they please with the murderer.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

um, what about the ones that don't want to sell? They're suddenly the big kids on the block and will shoot everyone else that got rid, just to get their families into houses. Um, yes I think you are being very naive there. The "weapons in the hands of the disadvantaged" problem has been around a lot longer than you and me both. Time to get realistic and ask your government why they keep selling guns to poor people!

Answer 5

Unfortunately in many of these 3rd world countries the top government officials are fat and happy and don't need the food. The only thing they crave is more power. They use their starving populace as a tool to garner more "donations" from other countries, than take the money and buy more weapons. They don't give a damn about their people.

Answer 6

Just a little bit naive methinks.
1. What makes you think starving people have weapons to sell?
2. If you mean state owned weapons, what makes you think there is anything worth selling and who would buy them? What makes you think owning these weapons has caused starvation?
3. If you mean personal weapons like guns - they are ideal for hunting with, thus helping to feed people. Also ideal protection for people at risk in lawless areas.

The main problem countries have where food is scarce are obviously because of the weather, lack of rainfall; because of economic reasons - not enough wealth to pay for the food imports required to feed the people; because of bad government and incompetence, like in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, one of Africa's greenest, most fertile lands. The land is now largely untended due to ill conceived policies of a mad man, the people poor and unemployed.

Answer 7

Is there a political reasons for high military weaponary outsourcing and is there any danger within neighboring country? Some country leader elected invested heavily in jet planes, military weapons could be a person who is very concerned about country security and military jobs within their nation for whatever reasons. Some country leaders prefer economic diplomacy and purchase commercial passenger planes instead of jet fighters and they will accept humans and encourage tourism regardless of religious segregation. It all depends on the education and brought up background of every leader

Answer 8

Might work in a few isolated cases, but think about it...most of the time, the ones with weapons aren't the ones starving. They take the food from the farmers who don't have weapons, and then the farmers starve. Or, the farmers that HAVE weapons manage to keep their food, and their family doesn't starve. See how it works? In a country with a poorly developed legal system, having weapons is necessary to keep yourself from starving.

Answer 9

Not sure who you mean when you say "starving people."

At first, I thought you meant in other countries, where people are starving while opposing armed forces fight each other. In those cases, the people who have the guns usually have plenty to eat. It's the people caught in the crossfire who starve.

Here in the US, I don't hear about a lot of people robbing or stealing to buy food. Drugs, yes. But food, no.

What am I missing?

Answer 10

because everyone else in the area has weapons, and frankly, in some of these areas, having a gun or something is more likely to keep you alive than having a load of food for a week, then going back to having no food, and no weapons.