Pros And Cons Of Global Disarmament

After the signing of the treaty of versailles, which ended World War 2, this started the first step in global disarmament when the allied forces took all the weapons from the axis powers. Global disarmament is the belief that no man or country should own a gun in the world. People who support global disarmament say that our world is in need for peace. That is one of the main goals the UN is trying to accomplish because they believe that to attain that peace we need to remove the fear of what guns bring to the world. People who are against global disarmament say that we won’t have any weapons to protect us if we are in a time of need and it will be hard to get every country in the world to cooperate in global disarmament. In 2010 the world’s military expenditures was about $1.5 trillion dollars and there are 640 million licensed firearms in the world, from a report of the UN. An article from the american press states, …show more content…
In an article from the bulletin of atomic scientist says, that if US does get rid of all there weapons it won’t cause countries like North Korea and Iran to get rid of their weapons. This proves that it is unreasonable to get rid of all weapons in the world because not all countries will cooperate in global disarmament. After the 9/11 attack people have been paranoid of another attack. To calm themselves they spend money on weapons for protection, that is the military budget has been increasing in america. If the US keeps spending money then all the other countries will raise their budget on the military to try to keep on pace with US because they do not want to be behind. This increasing budget is unnecessary because those weapons are just used for intimidation they will never be used. Meaning that if the US cuts there budget it won’t have that great of an effect on