Posted on 06/14/2009 4:50:10 AM PDT by marktwain
"The spread of small arms creates a serious global problem and requires an equally urgent response because the lives and futures of children are at stake. These weapons have extinguished more young lives than they have protected." – Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF The vast majority of Americans, regardless of their opinions on the increasing scope of international law, agree with the proposition that children should not be used as soldiers. Accordingly, much of the UN literature that addresses children and guns deals with this military-related issue.
However, a second theme is quickly found in virtually all UN pronouncements about child soldiers and weapons. UN child's rights advocates believe, teach, and promote the idea that all private gun-ownership is dangerous for children, and that children have the right to grow up in a community that is free from all guns.
As the campaign to seek ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child intensifies, it is important for all Americans to understand the application of this children's rights treaty to the issue of private gun ownership by American citizens.
Limiting the rights of gun-ownership is not some secret agenda of the UN, but is open for all to see. UNICEF, the official UN agency charged with the worldwide advancement of children's rights, has published a four-color brochure entitled: "No Guns Please, We Are Children." The quotation given at the opening of this paper is taken from the front cover of this UNICEF brochure.
Inside this brochure we find the following assertions about guns and children:
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Defund the UN
Disarm people!
It’s for the childruns.
Your Global Nanny speaks.
I, personally, would disarm but all my weapons fell out of the boat while I was shark hunting. Uhh, and I gave them all away to the homeless. Right, that’s the ticket . .
If they are that arrogantly ignorant, then we shall have CW2.
“These weapons have extinguished more young lives than they have protected.”
Quite simply untrue; moreover, the author clearly intends the deaths of gang-bangers to be included in the tally of young lives, which is deceitful, at best.
“The Presidents signature does not make this law but it is a big first step.”
No sh!t. The post said Obama AND Congress signing on to it. Congress signing on to it is ratification, thus making it law.
Ratification demands a vote by Congress not just signing on. Post #7 says “IF Obama and Congress sign on.....”
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