U.S. Agrees To U.N. Global Gun Control

Investor's Business Daily ^ | April 4, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

[raptor22]

Global Gun Control: Despite a prior Senate rebuff, President Obama will likely sign and push a treaty embraced by the world's oppressors and thugs who fear armed citizens.

The treaty's prior rejection by the Senate 53-46 in a nonbinding test vote as part of the budget debate in a body where a two-thirds vote to ratify is required would seem to doom the United Nations pact endorsed by the Obama administration.

However, the president will likely sign it and, as is his custom these days, try to enforce key provisions by stealth, executive order and by "common-sense" regulations and restrictions.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that the White House was pleased with the outcome, but "as is the case with all treaties of this nature, we will follow normal procedures to conduct a thorough review of the treaty text to determine whether to sign the treaty."

It is doubtful the president would not sign a treaty he has pushed for through his past and present secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.

"The U.S. Senate is united in strong opposition to a treaty that puts us on level ground with dictatorships who abuse human rights and arm terrorists, but there is real concern that the administration feels pressured to sign a treaty that violates our constitutional rights," Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, said Tuesday.

Supporters of the pact say it doesn't really threaten our Second Amendment rights, regulates only international arms trade, and won't be ratified anyway.

But there is also real concern that the Obama administration still might use it as a pretext not to sell weapons to allies like Israel and Taiwan, or to restrict the import of firearms and ammunition for individual end users.

[Chode]

thank God...

[Carry_Okie]

But meanwhile, a signed but unratified treaty throws a shadow over Congress and the Courts, by preventing them from enacting anything contrary to the "spirit" of the treaty even though it hasn't been ratified. That's as close as Slick and Hussein have been able to get things worked around the way they like.

Of course, they'd prefer the U.S. be fully subjugated by the U.N., with blue helmets quartered on us and goon squads crashing into homes to strip them of weapons and/or kill the owners out of sight of CNN cameras. But they can't take us there yet.

That's cutting to the chase all righty.

[stevie_d_64]

“as is the case with all treaties of this nature, we will follow normal procedures to conduct a thorough review of the treaty text to determine whether to sign the treaty.”

bullsh!t...

Funny how this treaty will mean absolutely nothing to many of us...

[stevie_d_64]

Depends upon where the DHS, and other government forces are located...

What’s funny is I don’t think those MRAP’s (approx. 36 vehicles) and teams are ready for anything yet...

I bet we see some time where the UN will send some “observers” to some targeted areas to work with some quislings in law enforcement, and go and take care of the areas they know they can take care of right now...To see how that all goes tactically and to see what the political fallout will be...

This may be used to provide a smokescreen for thw 2014 elections as well...

Its all going to be made to seem so conveluted to the casual, low information citizen, that those folks will be utilized to interact with the rest of their communities to rat out those of us who will not comply...Be very wary of your nieghbors, friends, co-workers, and even some in your families...

Then we’ll see the shift to enforce the new provisions in that treaty and any Federal edict they throw on top of the process, in those “trouble” areas...

Just my opinion...

[AFPhys]

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