A helpful reminder: guns are bad - preview
Caroline Westgate reviews Mark Thomas’s new book
As used on the famous Nelson Mandela: underground adventures in the arms and torture trade by Mark Thomas, Ebury Press, ISBN 009 190 921 X £1099
If you need reminding why the arms industry is a Bad Thing, Mark Thomas provides a helpful summary at the beginning of his book:
• There are 640 million small arms at large in the world
• Eight million new ones are added each year
• They kill one person every minute, half a million a year
• Three quarters of these are civilians, mainly women and children
Caroline Westgate
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