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Global efforts to prevent small arms proliferation
International Committee of the Red Cross ^
| July 8 2005
| International Committee of the Red Cross
Posted on 07/09/2005 7:21:14 AM PDT by jdege
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Governmental support is also growing for a global agreement that would define common standards for regulating all conventional arms transfers.
We need to get Bolton back in the UN.
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posted on
07/09/2005 7:21:15 AM PDT
by
jdege
To: jdege
Yeah, restricting small arms should stop macheteings in Africa and beheadings in the ME.
Its doing one heck of a job in Britain as well, where knives "putting the boot in" are now the weapons of choice.
Small arms resrictions do not prevent humanitarian violence.
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posted on
07/09/2005 7:30:24 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: mylife
That should read "knives and'putting the boot in'"
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posted on
07/09/2005 7:32:12 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: jdege
"...UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects." The UN has been unable to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, but now they think they can control small arms transactions and the American tax payer will fund it?
If we do, the joke is on us.
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posted on
07/09/2005 7:38:46 AM PDT
by
DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
To: mylife
In its work assisting victims of armed conflict, the ICRC witnesses daily the price that civilians in many war-torn societies pay for inadequate controls on the availability of weapons and their frequent use in violation of international humanitarian law. Agreed. Inadequate controls keep firearms out of the hands of law abiding citizens, and reserve them strictly for gov'ts which oppress and kill citizens, and criminals that do the same. Let's hope the ICRC will supply weapons and ammunition to the innocent victims.
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posted on
07/09/2005 7:39:58 AM PDT
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
To: TheDon
The UN talks of AK 47s and machineguns, but this is what they want
![](http://www.narsil.org/common_images/UN_statue_small.jpg)
They want to disarm you so that guys in blue helmets can rule you
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posted on
07/09/2005 7:44:41 AM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: jdege
Global gun control. Great plan. It's really working well for Great Britain and Australia.
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posted on
07/09/2005 7:53:44 AM PDT
by
Excuse_My_Bellicosity
("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
To: TheDon
The big difference is the uncivilized world compared to the civilized world. In the civilized world people are expected to "negotiate". In the uncivilized world, firearms are the mediator.
I guess that makes me uncivilized. I prefer firepower as the key to negotiation, rather than peace and understanding. Don't forget, there are also barbarians who shoot first and ask no questions. I don't think they are willing to give up their guns without a fight to the death, so once again the idea of utopian UN gun control is invalidated until all barbarians are eliminated.
To: jdege
The Senate rejected Bolton five times by majority vote. He's not going to the United Nations until and unless the Republicans can muster a majority in the Senate (counting RINO Voinovich et al. as Democrats). That majority practically will not happen before January 2007.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:17:41 AM PDT
by
dufekin
(US Senate: the only place where the majority [D] comprises fewer than the minority [R])
To: DJ Taylor
The UN has been unable to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, but now they think they can control small arms transactions and the American tax payer will fund it?
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Why this country still tolerates the criminal, irrelevant UN is beyond me. These useless PARASITES keep trying to DO ANYTHING to justify their totally disfunctional existence...control small arms, give me a break.
Throw them out of the US and tell them and their criminal mob to stay out of our affairs.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:24:02 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: jdege
But, but he makes the democrats feel bad.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:27:09 AM PDT
by
Modok
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Over my dead and lifeless............
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:28:36 AM PDT
by
ANGGAPO
(LayteGulfBeachClub.)
To: Modok
And he might have made one of them cry. We just can't have such divisiveness.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:28:47 AM PDT
by
Modok
To: dufekin
Did Bush work hard to get him a majority?
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:30:35 AM PDT
by
Modok
To: Modok
I do not believe that Bush can get him a majority, even if Bush should accept severe political costs. When a near-majority of Senators seem to advocate surrender to the terrorists, it's practically impossible to work with the present Senate. Bush worked hard all last year to take back the Senate and even believed that he had prevailed, but he fell far short. Bush will work hard again to retake the Senate in 2006 so that the Senate will approve his judicial nominees (and Bolton). But we must wait until then.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:44:23 AM PDT
by
dufekin
(US Senate: the only place where the majority [D] comprises fewer than the minority [R])
To: dufekin
The Senate rejected Bolton five times by majority vote. What was the last vote count?
To: nonsporting
A majority of 38 rejecting, a minority of 54 voting to consent. The majority prevailed by a margin of negative sixteen. The Democrats hold a negative-eleven vote majority in the Senate.
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posted on
07/09/2005 9:11:26 AM PDT
by
dufekin
(US Senate: the only place where the majority [D] comprises fewer than the minority [R])
To: jdege
ICRC (Geneva) Governments, international organizations and NGOs will meet in New York from 11-15 July to assess progress made in four years of implementing the UN
Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects Disarm everyone.Fixed. This BS programe alone is reason to get Bolton comfirmed as ambassidor to the UN!
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posted on
07/09/2005 9:14:40 AM PDT
by
Paul_Denton
(Get the U.N. out of the U.S. and U.S. out of the U.N.!)
To: DTogo
![](http://freealabama.com/images/anti-un.gif)
Screw the UN ping!
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posted on
07/09/2005 9:15:51 AM PDT
by
Paul_Denton
(Get the U.N. out of the U.S. and U.S. out of the U.N.!)
To: mylife
Ahh, the new pro-slavery program.
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