UN Gun Treaty on Hold, but Democrats Persist
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry
Throughout July, the United Nations worked to hammer out the details of its Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). We and many other liberty-loving organizations oppose the document because it threatens the Second Amendment rights of American citizens. It’s cloaked in the feel-good language of preventing illicit arms trade, but its solution is, essentially, to register all guns with the UN. The good news is that the UN failed to adopt the treaty. The bad news is that’s not the end of it.
Action was indefinitely suspended after the United States and a few other countries asked for more time to consider it. However, when the UN General Assembly reconvenes in September, it could renew a negotiation schedule for the treaty, or it could declare it open for signature. The UK, France, Germany and 87 other nations argue that the treaty is ready, saying the “compromises” reached had “overwhelming support of the international community,” and they all but blamed Barack Obama and the U.S. for its failure.
Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA, blasted the White House, saying, “This was stunning cowardice by the Obama administration, which at the last minute did an about-face and scuttled progress toward a global arms treaty, just as it reached the finish line.” The truth is, as Obama told then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev earlier this year on missile defense, the president hopes to have more “flexibility” after his re-election.
If Obama signed the treaty now, it would fail in the Senate because 51 senators already signed a letter opposing ratification. Democrats are extremely unlikely to add to their Senate majority in November — in fact, they’re more likely to lose it. So what’s Obama’s end-game?
Simple: He’s reset his sights on the Second Amendment. The groundwork for his desired assault was laid in Operation Fast and Furious, a now well-known charade concocted to bolster the false claim that American weapons were the cause of Mexican drug-gang violence and, therefore, needed to be more tightly regulated.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, released their first of three reports on Fast and Furious this week. The report implicated three Justice Department officials and five ATF agents. William Hoover, No. 2 at ATF, is no longer employed there. Two more final reports will highlight “the devastating failure of supervision and leadership” at the Obama Justice Department, as well as an “unprecedented obstruction of the [congressional] investigation by the highest levels of the Justice Department, including the attorney general himself.”
Meanwhile, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) used the Aurora, Colorado, shooting as an excuse to introduce legislation that would effectively outlaw the online purchase of ammunition. The Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act would live up to its name by requiring that ammo buyers who aren’t dealers must present photo ID at the time of purchase. Several Democrat senators likewise attached an amendment to an unrelated bill banning magazines with a capacity of more than 10 rounds.
Make no mistake, the Left will take every opportunity, employing any and every excuse, to take away our Second Amendment rights. Remember that when you go to the polls in November.
Written by Nate Jackson and published at Patriot Post August 3, 2012.
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The Nazis did the same thing when they came in power. They started by saying that having guns for ordinary people was unsafe. Once the civilian population totally disarmed the Nazis which were truly government mafia state thugs (in USA the thugs are the federal government), did what they pleased. The UN in this sense is truly a Nazi organization and the same arguments are used as the Nazis did. You will notice that these people from the UM always speak of peace. In reality they are wolfes disguised in sheep. UN is a eugenist fascist organization runned and controlled by theives like Rockerfeller.
We can not afford any more talk of gun control Legislation, Treaties or any other quasi legal abridgement of our 2nd ammendment rights. The 1968 Gun Control Act (GCA), brought to us by then Cong. Chris Dodd of Dodd/Frank fame, is an almost vebatim translation of the 1938 Nazi Weapons Law. Recent history is repleat with examples of genocides by governments against their own citizens. Don’t believe me, go to jpfo.org (Jews for the Presevation of Firearms Ownership) DON’T TREAD ON ME !!
Alfonse, it was his father Senator Thomas Dodd who gave us the GCA of 68. He was a lawyer in the Army and was involved with the Nuremberg Witch hunt/trials after World War 2. He was a true Scumbag if there ever was one.
Thanks Hippy, like father like son.
Our founding Fathers(too many to list, do your own research)warned us and admonished us, too never give up your arms! My guns are not for hunting and target shooting(although I enjoy these practices)they are for protection from evil people; weather they be criminals, invaders, or agents of our own out of control government. It is our duty as free men to protect ourselves from them. Please read The Declaration Of Independence;our first document that has never been revoked or abridged.
“Live Free, Or die!”
Nobody elects these people. No taxation without representation. It is an illegal and illigetimate world government by the banksters and for the banksters. The UN, UNESCO, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Health Organization. All of them are totally anti-democratic and riddled with corruption, incompetence. People cant imagine what goes on in these places. The UN is a tyranny. All these organization are financed 100% by the taxpayers of the countries and you as a taxpayer have nothing to say about how these parasites do with your money. Americans but not just them, should quick out these international parasitics institutions out their country.