Posted on 12/13/2016 2:32:56 PM PST by PROCON
President Obama transmitted the controversial Arms Trade Treaty, which seeks to regulate the world’s annual exchange of $70 billion in conventional weaponry, to the Senate on Friday.
In April 2013, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Arms Trade Treaty that aims to regulate the international trade in conventional weapons ranging from small arms to warships. The U.S. signed the treaty along with some 129 other countries but Congress has not ratified it.
The Senate would have to pass the ATT with a two-thirds majority and at least 50 Senators went on record soon after Kerry’s action by sending the White House a bipartisan letter stating they would not sign the pact, leaving it to stagnate in the State Department.
Now, with just a few days left at work doing the People’s business in Washington, Obama is making a final appeal to the lawmakers, holding that the declaration will not affect gun rights.
“It will contribute to international peace and security, will strengthen the legitimate international trade in conventional arms, and is fully consistent with rights of U.S. citizens (including those secured by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution),” he noted in his Dec. 9 message, going on to say the treaty will help eliminate the illicit trade in weaponry that can be used overseas in “to carry out the world’s worst crimes, including genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.”
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So if I like my Glock, I can keep my Glock?
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Call and tell your Senator NO WAY
We'll keep track of those who WOULD sign.
Yeah, right. Just drop it off at the government exchange so they can store it safely
Didn’t the senate could vote to throw out the second amendment.
I would, but Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey stopped taking my phone calls.
DOA (hopefully).
We want names...
Peace! Finally we have achieved it
The real news here is that the RINO-controlled Senate failed to cede some of its treaty authority to King Barry.
My Senators don’t have to be told.
LOL!
The time to finally flush this POTUS turd for good can’t come soon enough.
-—“It will contribute to international peace and security,...-—
Whenever they say ‘peace and security’, it has the same meaning as ‘for the children’.
An automatic thumbs down.
(See the way everyone's talking about Trump "withdrawing" from the Paris "climate" treaty if you don't believe me)
Sounds like several RINO’s are off the res, as usual. At least the rank and file are holding out, NOT always as per usual.
They, (the left), mean THEIR safety and security. As in you will never have the arms to revolt against THEIR rule.
NO, here is the new UN, CA, NY & NJ compliant model.
"If it saves just one child's life, isn't it worth it?"
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