By Guy W. Meyer Guns, guns, everywhere, and children massacred by the millions in wars, revolutions, crime.
Every dead child symbolizes the profits pocketed by the manufacturers and dealers in weaponry.
These profiteers are the first beneficiaries of the shameful global killings. While people who profit by such enterprises are driven by greed, they comprise only a small fraction of the population. There are those whose numbers are fortunately very few, who buy guns to kill certain people, to use for robbery and rape, or to gain political power. Another small minority buys guns to build their self-respect, their image of courage, with which they associate weaponry and violence. Probably most act out of fear.