Posted on 10/21/2013 5:00:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tired of depressing news? Smile, because here is some very positive news: 50 U.S. Senators—both Democrats and Republicans—have pledged to stop Obama’s latest attack on the Second Amendment.
Last week, all 50 senators wrote a letter to Obama pledging not to ratify the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty. In order for this treaty to be ratified, it would need 60 “yay” votes in the Senate. This means, gun owners will not need to forfeit their God-given right to self-defense and President Obama is on notice that his latest attack on the Second Amendment is dead on arrival in the Senate.
This fall, the Obama administration signed the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. As I warned gun owners in August, this treaty undermines your Second Amendment rights, places international law on a pedestal above our Constitution and encourages the creation of a national gun registry.
Obama pledged that he would never sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. In October of 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the U.S. would only enter the Arms Trade Treaty by “the rule of consensus decision-making.” However, these 50 U.S. Senators write that Obama broke this pledge, because: “in April 2013, after the treaty failed to achieve consensus, it was adopted by majority vote in the U.N. General Assembly. We fear that this reversal has done grave damage to the diplomatic credibility of the United States.”
These 50 senators write that this treaty: “encourages governments to collect the identities of individual end users of imported firearms at the national level, which would constitute the core of a national gun registry.” This means that Obama broke another promise to the American people by signing this treaty. On March 25, 2013, his spokesman told the press that Obama was absolutely not working to create a national gun registry. Apparently, he was.
U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe sponsored an amendment in the Senate to show opposition to the treaty. Now, this letter is a further sign that the U.S. Senate will not allow our President to subvert both the Second Amendment and our ability to, as this letter states: “conduct our own foreign policy.” Obama’s own State Department has called the treaty “ambiguous” and so senators are very concerned that the terms of the treaty would severely restrict our ability to exercise our national sovereignty and conduct our own foreign policy. This treaty would effectively put global bureaucrats in charge of micromanaging our interactions with our own allies.
Here are the names of the 50 U.S. Senators who courageously took a stand for your freedom against the Obama administration:
Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Sen. John Barrasso, Sen. Mark Begich, Sen. Roy Blunt, Sen. John Boozman, Sen. Richard Burr, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Sen. Jeff Chiesa, Sen. Daniel Coats, Sen. Tom Coburn, Sen. Thad Cochran, Sen. Susan Collins, Sen. Bob Corker, Sen. John Cornyn, Sen. Mike Crapo, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Enzi, Sen. Deb Fischer, Sen. Jeff Flake, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Kay Hagan, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Sen. Dean Heller, Sen. John Hoeven, Sen. James Inhofe, Sen. Johnny Isakson, Sen. Mike Johanns, Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Mary Landrieu, Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. Joe Manchin III, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Jerry Moran, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Rob Portman, Sen. Mark Pryor, Sen. James Risch, Sen. Pat Roberts, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Tim Scott, Sen. Jeff Sessions, Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. John Thune, Sen. Pat Toomey, Sen. David Vittor, Sen. Roger Wicker
If your senator is one of the above 50 who signed this letter to Obama, please write to them and say “thank you” for standing up for your natural, God-given right to self-defense as well as our country’s right to manage our own foreign policy.
Gun owners like you have been speaking up loudly and clearly against this treaty. By speaking out, you have encouraged these 50 Senators to take a strong stand for freedom. Even though this treaty is now dead on arrival in the Senate, if your senator is not one of these 50, you should write him or her and encourage them to get on-board. All Americans need to be on the same team: Team Freedom.
My question is....ONLY 50 SIGNED THE LETTER?
So 50 are in favor of not upholding their oaths to the Constitution.
Throw them out! TODAY!
“In order for this treaty to be ratified, it would need 60 “yay” votes in the Senate.”
If it’s a treaty, it would need 67. They sometimes try to get around this by calling it an “agreement” but then you have to bring the House in.
I see many are the same traitors that allowed Obamcare to be funded. Maybe trying to save face now. Oh well I’ll take whatever scraps I can get with the current regime in power.
You can be sure most of those who didn’t sign the letter were rats
“....diplomatic credibility of the United States.”
Thats my laugh for the morning!
I count ALL the Republican senators plus 3 democrats: Manchin, Landrieu and Hagan.
Nice to know so many democrats have preserving the US Constitution in mind (that they took an oath to)...
With the way Kelly Ayotte sold us out on ObamaCare, what are the chances that she will really follow-through on this?
We will not give up our 2A regardless of what these or any other traitors say or think.
I’m with you. Yes that is good news that obama won’t be allowed to further erode our rights - at this time. But I’m very concerned about the 50 who declined to sign the letter.
Need? Need to forfeit our God given right to self defense??
I don't know a single gun owner who feels a need to forfeit their God given right to self defense.
Let's be clear about what this U.N. treaty and Obama are up to: They are up to FORCING legitimate, God Fearing gun owners via force of Government to surrender their God given rights to self defense.
THAT is what this is about, despite the piss-poor "journalism" eminating from TownHall.com
That this is ‘good news’ is depressing.
Like Agenda 21 it will be implemented a bit at a time, anyway.
It’s depressing to have 50 un-american senators openly defy the Constituton without consequence.
Since there is no time limit, this Treaty will remain signed and awaiting ratification for years if necessary until there are enough DemocRATs in the Senate for passage. The danger is not over, and never will be.
So 50 Senators are willing to trash our Constitution and subjugate our sovereignty to foreign powers. 50 Senators favor TREASON?
Amen Brother, that was my thought as well. Where are the other 50 and why didn’t they sign. What this actually means is that they are only ten votes from ratifying the Treaty.
The treaty will remain signed and at any time if they can buy ten votes it is settled law, as they so like to say.
Don’t think they cannot buy votes. They bought McConnell for 2 billion dollars.
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