Posted on 11/19/2002 8:20:09 PM PST by proofreader
The UN’s current drive for gun control was launched in 1995, when the General Assembly asked then-UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to appoint a "Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms" for the purpose of preparing a report on that subject. The report was submitted to the current secretary-general, Kofi Annan, in 1997. Annan then forwarded the report to the General Assembly with the recommendation that that body endorse it. The General Assembly did so.
The small arms report claimed that "the excessive and destabilizing accumulation and transfer of small arms and light weapons is closely related to the increased incidence of internal conflicts and high levels of crime and violence" and that "it is, therefore, an issue of legitimate concern for the international community." It characterized as "small arms" not only such weapons as "revolvers and self-loading pistols" and "rifles and carbines" but "clubs, knives and machetes."
The report’s recommendations included:
• "The United Nations should support … all appropriate post-conflict initiatives related to disarmament and demobilization, such as the disposal and destruction of weapons, including weapons turn-in programmes...."
• "All … weapons which are not under legal civilian possession, and which are not required for the purposes of national defence and internal security, should be collected and destroyed by States as expeditiously as possible."
• "All States should determine in their national laws and regulations which arms are permitted for civilian possession and the conditions under which they can be used."
• "All States should ensure that they have in place adequate laws, regulations and administrative procedures to exercise effective control over the legal possession of small arms and light weapons and over their transfer...."
• "States emerging from conflict should, as soon as practicable, impose or reimpose licensing requirements on all civilian possession of small arms and light weapons...."
The U.S. government could not implement the proposals in the small arms report, of course, without violating the Second Amendment. Yet the U.S. representative on the Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms — Dr. Herbert L. Calhoun of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency — joined the other panel members in unanimously adopting the small arms report...
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The good news is that the UN is tyrannical enough to one day attempt gun confiscation here, using foreign troops from third world sh!thole nations.
Real gun control is...using two hands.
Molon Labe.
Thanks
Eaker
Come and get it. You bunch of poverty stricken, immoral, minority, racists, lazy, stupid B-------.
You've Been on this earth for thousands of years and you still havn't figured out how to feed yourselves.
You are pathetic.
That could be the 'Before' shot
(no pun intended)
...and here is the 'After':
Thank You Sir !........Stay Safe !
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