Here’s a story. A man who was a soldier in the American army in Iraq tells it to me.
A friend of his, one of his best and closest friends, was nearly pierced through by a bullet fired by a sniper. The bullet entered the friend’s upper right chest, just below the collarbone, and plowed almost through to the back, just below the shoulder blade.
American surgeons removed the bullet and discovered it was a 5.56mm cartridge manufactured in Lake City, Missouri.
The Lake City Ammunition Plant was founded by the Remington Arms Company in 1941. Today it is operated by Orbital Alliant Techsystems, which averages $5 billion in sales annually and earns an average of about half a billion dollars annually.
Half of the 100 biggest weapons and ammunition manufacturers in the world are American companies. Orbital is one of these.
Orbital sells 1.5 billion rounds of ammunition a year to the American army and to the armies of other nations around the world. Some of that ammunition is lost or stolen or shuffled clandestinely to all sorts of revolutionaries, criminals, gangs, and thugs, including some which call themselves freedom fighters or insurgents against economic and cultural imperialism, though in many cases they are actually fighting to impose their own chosen form of oppression and tinny empire on the people they live among, people whom they are not averse to slaughtering for advertising reasons.
So let us review: an American soldier, age 22, is nearly pierced by a bullet made in America, sold for a profit in America, by an American company which makes half a billion dollars a year selling bullets and other weaponry to armies all over the world.
The vast majority of the companies that make a tremendous profit every year selling bullets and other weaponry all over the world are American. Most of those companies are publicly traded companies in which many other Americans are heavily invested.
So the bullet that nearly pierced an American boy, a bullet that caused him enormous pain, a bullet that permanently affected the use of his arm and shoulder, the bullet that cut a scar on his chest he will wear until the day he dies, was made in America, by American workers, and paid for by American investors, who profited handsomely by the sale of the bullet that eventually executed its purpose by punching a hole the size of a quarter almost all the way