and there are a vit of different views about what should be in the treaty. should ammunition be included or not. what s the scope of the type of weapons that should be included. there s been a variety of debates about that issue. although i should say i think there is, within europe and a variety of other countries around the world, pretty strong support for getting some kind of a treaty. i think the discussion and debate is about some of the elements within the treaty itself. are we talking about the same actors here? are we talking about armed exports, the gun manufacturers, the same people who are fighting so far successfully against gun legislation here at home? i think, i mean basically you know, there s going to always be weapons produced for the defense of nations and there s going to be import and export of weapons. i think the real issue here is what we don t have in the world right now is standards governing the import and em port of those weapons across international bou