Posted on 06/16/2006 4:22:44 AM PDT by jodiluvshoes
The U.N. will gather in New York City this July for the 2006 Small Arms Review Conference. Doesn’t the name alone make you nervous? The U.N. is “reviewing” guns. If you don’t own one, doesn’t it make you want to go out and buy one just so you can be ready for whatever Kofi’s got planned?
Wayne LaPierre is plenty nervous, which is why he’s written, “The Global War on Your Guns: Inside the U.N.’s Plan to Destroy the Bill of Rights.” Sound alarmist?
His critics think so, claiming that the aim of the conference and its supporters is only to deal with the “illicit” sale of small arms, so it would have no effect on any legally traded arms. But check out the U.N.’s own explanation and see what you think (emphasis mine):
By unanimously adopting the UN Programme of Action to address the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons (UNPoA), in 2001, the UN Member States committed to collecting and destroying illegal weapons, adopting and/or improving national legislations that would help criminalize the illicit trade in small arms, regulating the activities of brokers, setting strict import and export controls, taking action against violators of such laws, and better coordinating international efforts to that end.
Sounds like there’s some wiggle room in there to me. I got to talk to LaPierre, executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, about his new book and the new fight facing gun owners.
LaPierre has been charting the U.N. gun-ban movement since the mid-1990s, when all of the nuclear freeze non-governmental organizations (NGOs) morphed into gun-ban groups and “hijacked the disarmament machinery of the United Nations,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
We can send you a few bullets though.
Agreed. I've already recruited one neighbor.
Oops! I didin't see your post in time.
"Take the U.N. by eminent domian and convert it into condo's."
The property was donated to the U.N. by Rockefeller. Do you really think that NYC would dare take that property?
Why don't you come to Texas and we'll "discuss" the matter? In fact, PLEASE come - we've got some messages to deliver to you, and we wish to do so promptly...preferably via airmail. As for your expectations in this regard, please ask the British delegation how their nation's "discussion" with us Americans went about 230 years ago.
And what has he done? Is his name on any lawsuits against the San Francisco council? Yes, he's a Sarah Brady troll. He can't use any point of view that isn't over thirty years old.
He can't answer the question if the NRA isn't there, who would be? Another gun group that hasn't done a single solitary thing on their own since their existance?
Looked over the links he provided, the kaba is benign, the nrawol site is a little wierd, dated maybe, but factual. For example, recognizing that the NRA is a "wing of the R party". That's not a bad thing like they make it out to be, and they are have the direction wrong, the R party is responsive to NRA members values. I am an NRA member and a GOA member, each has its strengths. I will stay open-minded about this group as well.
Other than that, they're a great bunch of fundraisers.
L
NRA supporter myself for many years now and will continue to support it.
If Kofi wants my guns, the runt can come and get them.
Over thirty years ago. the NRA wasn't a lobbying group. They were a competitive shooting and hunting organization. Their main supporters were the firearms manufacturers. Their only clout in Washington was sending the occasional letter to their members. When the '68 gun law was proposed, a lot of the members, especially the manufacterers saw it as protectionism. The NRA's numbers weren't all that great either. I doubt they had a million members at that time. I think it was in the low hundred thousands.
Since that time, there have been at least two overthrows of power. THE NRA ISN'T THE SAME ORGANIZATION THAT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH "ENDORSING" THE GUN LAW AND I DOUBT THEY DID.
You crybabies should finally tell me what gun organization has ever done anything without the NRA's help. Either do that or shut up. And you palmer, probably still can't tell me what the GOA has ever done by itself.
Four million NRA members doing what seventy four million gunowners are too lazy to do.
The irony about the "gun-control" crowd on the coasts is that gun control isn't really the problem. The problem is created by welfare moms raising 12 criminal children by 12 different fathers, the liberal judges who refuse to come down hard on criminals and the liberal media that treats criminals as the "true" victims. Our problem isn't guns, but the liberal culture that has not only bred criminals, but keeps putting them back out on the street.
It really bothers me when people make excuses for treasonous behavior.
It's like if Clinton suddenly saw the light and decided to become pro 2nd Amendment. I wouldn't trust him no matter what he did.
It's the same with the NRA.
BTW, Charlton Heston personally favored the 68 GCA and urged the President to sign it.
So much for the 'different organization' canard.
L
Not true.
There are plenty of gun groups that would have filed suit, [and won] if the NRA had not.
-- It really bothers me when people make excuses for treasonous behavior.
It's like if Clinton suddenly saw the light and decided to become pro 2nd Amendment. I wouldn't trust him no matter what he did.
It's the same with the NRA.
Thirty seven years ago I had a gunsmiths license and was a staunch NRA member. This all changed when the NRA turncoats came in power & supported the '68 act', -- which they still do.
BTW, Charlton Heston personally favored the 68 GCA and urged the President to sign it. So much for the 'different organization' canard.
Yep, the NRA still plays footsie with the government power structure.
If the 'new' Court would decide that our 2nd amendment doesn't apply to States, [allowing CA to outright prohibit handguns for instance] guess who would be finding excuses to agree.. -- Bet on the NRA.
Ping!
Wrong.
It would be the same is if you hated clintoon,[which shouldn't be a stretch of the imagination] and then hated the United States of America because of his term decades later.
The board of directors from the NRA who supported or ignored the passage of the '68 gun law are all dead and buried.
But then it's an easy excuse to sit on the sidelines and do nothing while the NRA gets results.
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