Perhaps the biggest threat to gun rights in America today comes not from domestic lawmakers, but from abroad. Even as support for gun control wanes at home, globalist bureaucrats are working to override national sovereignty and craft international gun laws.
For more than a decade the United Nations has waged a campaign to undermine Second Amendment rights in America. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called on members of the Security Council to address the “easy availability” of small arms and light weapons, by which he means all privately owned firearms. In response, the Security Council released a report calling for a comprehensive program of worldwide gun control, a report that admonishes the U.S. and praises the restrictive gun laws of Red China and France!
Further:
Bypassing U.S. Voters. National Review Online. Aug. 3, 2001.
The role of anti-gun lobbies at the U.N. conference. http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel080301.shtml
Gunning Against Guns. National Review Online. Aug. 1, 2001. Gun registration and "transparency" at the U.N. conference. http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel073101.shtml
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From AIM Accuracy in Media:
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Europeans cannot bring themselves to condemn the 9/11 attacks on the United States. They are fit to be tied over Israel's retaliation against the suicide bombers. They grant absolute rights without moral absolutes.
The result is a lawless culture that criminalizes speech, bans guns and wonders why urban crime is out of control. Holland prohibits hate speech in its constitution, has disarmed its citizens and now, having disarmed tongue and self, stands defenseless as an increasing population of radical Islamic immigrants runs rampant through urban areas. Crime-loving immigrants have taken over inner cities and produced a crime rate that has Dutch citizens looking for gun-toting, candid-speaking "extreme right" candidates.
The French nearly sputtered up their foie gras when they realized that "extreme right" Jean-Marie Le Pen took 25 percent of the vote in the recent national election. The socialist and Communist elite feel the outrage and backlash from unemployed blue-collar workers who live unarmed among the crime and criminals. "People feel unsafe in the streets," was the platform of one "extreme right" candidate for the National Assembly.
One Berlin paper, startled at the movement wrote, "Whether Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Portugal, France, Belgium or now Holland, everywhere the right-wing populists are on the march." Oh, how people speak when they regret lost rights.
Gun control is not such a hot idea when you're living in an urban area overrun by crime, particularly by young hostile males as dangerous as elk in search of a hook-up. The savvy Euros are weaponless, both in arms and tongue. Having taken politically correct speech to the point of making discouraging and disparaging words a crime, few dare mention the immigrant crime problem. Guns fire one way - at the silenced law-abiding citizens.
Just what I have been thinking RoseofTexas. And guns are precisely the reason why the violence in New Orleans after the hurricane did not happen in Texas, Missouri or the parts of LA where the citizens are well armed.