Mines

A detailed Summary of Mines

Anti-Personnel landmines have been used in many wars even though the users and makers know how horrible they are, and what they do to people that are innocent, and more so, know what they do to children. Unlike the eye of a soldier, a landmine cannot differentiate between a civilian and a soldier. Landmines have destroyed the lives of many people who had nothing to do with the reason that they were planted.

An anti-personnel landmine does not stop killing people once the war or conflict that they were made for has ended. As a matter of fact, they can kill more than fifty years after they have been planted, and they do. In the 1980s, there was a study conducted. That study let us know that there were people killed or crippled every year in Poland from land mines planted in the 1940s, during World War II. This study also revealed to us another gruesome fact. Eighty percent of the people that were killed or crippled were children. These children were not even alive at the time the landmines were planted, and some had never even heard of the war in which they were planted. This is still happening in Poland today. However, there were more landmines planted per square mile in the Vietnam Conflict than there were in World Wa

Why is it so hard to remove these deadly mechanisms? First of all, any person attempting to remove a landmine is in great danger already. If they do not see a mine they can easily be blown up. If they do see the mine they can easily be blown up by not taking the proper procedure in removing it. This fact makes the cost of removing landmines incredibly expensive. To be exact they cost up to US$1000 each. The cost to make and plant a land mine, however, can be as little as US$3 per mine.

However, the world does not have only mines. Mine scattering systems that scatter tens, to even hundreds of landmines from air to ground, or from ground to ground, automatically. In a single year alone, the United States of America with the aid from no other countries, has spent over US$250 million on making and exporting landmine scattering systems. Is this what we want our taxes spent on? Killing machines.

The last type of mine that I will be covering, though it is far from the last of the mines there are, is the "bounding" mine. This mine is not made to maim but to kill. It leaps into the air when triggered, where it then explodes into more than 1,000 metal, bullet like pieces. Since it leaps into the air it explodes into the person who triggered it's face. The bounding mine is lethal to a distance a little more than 25 meters.

So what can we as children do to prevent these disgusting contraptions from being made and sold in the United States. You can contact your representatives and your senators to support certain bills. Tell senators to support S. 896 and Representatives to support H.R. 2459. Yo

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