650 Million Small Arms=1 Death Every Minute

LIMA,
Peru, Oct 9 (Reuters) – With someone, somewhere in the world killed every
minute by guns, lobby groups on Thursday launched a campaign for a global
treaty to curb what they called an out-of-control international weapons
trade. "Small arms are … the new threat of mass destruction," said
Rebecca Peters, head of the International Action Network on Small Arms,
grouping
550 organizations in 100 countries. The network, along with Amnesty
International and the aid group Oxfam launched the campaign in Lima,
Nairobi and London.

Light weapons kill half a million people a year, Peters said, and there
are 650 million such firearms in circulation — one for every 10 people
on earth

from
Reuters