Kerry Commits U.S. To U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Gun Grab

Investor's Business Daily ^ | March 20, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

U.S. Rights: As the world body meets this week to hammer out an agreement to restrict international arms trade, our Secretary of State commits us to pushing a treaty that may also restrict our Second Amendment rights.

Last Friday, the day of the week when unpopular or controversial announcements are traditionally made, Secretary of State John Kerry announced U.S. support for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a final version of which is being hammered out in New York beginning this week.

Certainly the ATT is controversial. Touted as a means of getting a handle on an international arms trade valued at $60 billion a year, its stated purpose is to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters and organized crime at an international level.

Its vague and suspicious wording led some 150 members of Congress last June to send a letter to President Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warning that the treaty is "likely to pose significant threats to our national security, foreign policy and economic interests as well as our constitutional rights."

We have noted that a paper by the U.N.'s Coordinating Action on Small Arms (CASA) says that arms have been "misused by lawful owners" and that the "arms trade therefore be regulated in ways that would . .. minimize the misuse of legally owned weapons."

Would defending your home against intruders, or U.S. laws permitting concealed carry, be considered a "misuse?"

"We will not support any treaty that would be inconsistent with U.S. law and the rights of American citizens under our Constitution, including the Second Amendment," Secretary of State Kerry tried to reassure us — even as he represents an administration that seeks to ban weapons on their scary appearance rather than their genuine lethality...

[raptor22]

From our cold, dead American hands!

[Doogle]

Kerry don’t pour ketchup without Odungo’s OK

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[Free and Armed]

This may get interesting.

[Billthedrill]

Would a fellow of the stature of John F. Kerry ever sell us out?

Oh, wait. He already did. That's where his political career started. Never mind.

[PATRIOT1876]

We do NOT have to comply with any illegal “laws”!

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chode]

[MeganC]

I agree.

[DuncanWaring]

Would defending your home against intruders, ... be considered a "misuse?"

The Brits have already shown us the answer to that one.

[ilovesarah2012]

I am shocked!

[GingisK]

Rights cannot be taken away. It seems They might be searching for some “pushback”.

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[Don Corleone]

Molon Labe
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[Carry_Okie]

There is more to Kerry's signature than might first appear. It actually carries force of international law.

If anybody here thinks that "they need 67 votes," I have bad news for you.

[GBA]

If anything would make feel justified for voting for G. Dubya Bush a second time, there he is.

Vile creature. Gives being filthy rich from marrying into money a bad name.

[Boomer One]

Liberals and Progressives won't be happy until they start another Civil War. An attempt or passage of this bill will certainly be viewed as the equivalent of “the shot fired at Ft. Sumter”.

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[Jane Long]

Secretary of State John Kerry announced U.S. support for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

Of course he did. Who didn't see this coming? We shouldn't be supporting anything coming out of the UN.

[ought-six]

“Liberals and Progressives won’t be happy until they start another Civil War.”

Then they are about to become ecstatic, because now it is inevitable. God help us.

[MtBaldy]

Can someone tell me why this isn’t treason?