[marktwain]

The United Nations looks to protect the rulers of nation states, not their people. This treaty seems to be primarily focused on making sure that the rulers are protected from insurrections.

[RC one]

which nation is spearheading this “treaty”? Oh yes, Iran. of course.

[Eagles6]

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/the-senate-does-not-need-to-ratify-a-un-treaty-for-us-to-be-bound?xg_source=activity

[SuperLuminal]

"This treaty seems to be primarily focused on making sure that the rulers are protected from insurrections. "

Yep! As are all gun-control regulations & laws

[EdReform]

The UN and Obama can shove ATT up their asses. Send your thugs for our guns and we will send them back to you in body bags. You WILL NOT disarm us.

[Biggirl]

It will simply make people hide their guns.

[devolve]

"I want to take those profits....."

Hillary Clinton

February 5, 2007

"I want to take those guns....."

Hillary Clinton

February, 2012

[Whenifhow]

This document could be posted separately. Note the date 1961.

http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/arms/freedom_war.html

Freedom From War
The United States Program
for General and Complete
Disarmament in a Peaceful
World

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 7277
Disarmament Series 5
Released September 1961

snip

FREEDOM FROM WAR
THE UNITED STATES PROGRAM
FOR GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT
IN A PEACEFUL WORLD
SUMMARY
DISARMAMENT GOAL AND OBJECTIVES

The over-all goal of the United States is a free, secure, and peaceful world of independent states adhering to common standards of justice and international conduct and subjecting the use of force to the rule of law; a world which has achieved general and complete disarmament under effective international control; and a world in which adjustment to change takes place in accordance with the principles of the United Nations.

In order to make possible the achievement of that goal, the program sets forth the following specific objectives toward which nations should direct their efforts:

The disbanding of all national armed forces and the prohibition of their reestablishment in any form whatsoever other than those required to preserve internal order and for contributions to a United Nations Peace Force;
The elimination from national arsenals of all armaments, including all weapons of mass destruction and the means for their delivery, other than those required for a United Nations Peace Force and for maintaining internal order;
The institution of effective means for the enforcement of international agreements, for the settlement of disputes, and for the maintenance of peace in accordance with the principles of the United Nations;
The establishment and effective operation of an International Disarmament Organization within the framework of the United Nations to insure compliance at all times with all disarmament obligations.

[PapaBear3625]

Looking at the last hundred years, far more civilian deaths have been caused by the civilians' own internationally-recognized governments (eg, Germany 1935-45, USSR 1918-dissolution, China 1940-present, North Korea) than by criminals or insurgents.

If the UN was really interested in peace, it would bar governments from possessing arms and mandate that only civilian militias could be armed. Come to think of it, this was the state of affairs that the US Founders envisioned.