Mr. Philip Alpers of Sydney University gave a compelling presentation on small arms disarmament.  He felt that too much effort was being put into nuclear weapon disarmament, and not enough into small arms.  His rationale was simple:

Deaths caused by nuclear weapons since 1945 = 0
Deaths caused by small arms = 1000 per day

He used a public health analogy and discussed small (hand held) weapons as a disease vector.  Here’s the formula:

Gun is to armed violence as mosquito is to malaria.

Next the “Global Peace Index”

Don Kraus