Tancredo rouses gun rights advocates

Washington Times ^ | December 4, 2009 | Valerie Richardson

[neverdem]

DENVER | Former Rep. Tom Tancredo, best known for his tough stand in Congress against illegal immigration, has taken up a new cause since his retirement from the House last year: defending American gun owners against international treaties.

The Obama administration is moving forward on two treaties that Mr. Tancredo and other gun rights advocates see as a threat to the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. His response is a 2010 ballot initiative that would direct elected officials in his home state of Colorado to oppose any such agreements.

The initiative, filed last week with the Colorado Legislative Council, would be nonbinding, but Mr. Tancredo said merely having it on the ballot would be enough to force candidates to address the issue.

"I want to know where [candidates] stand before they're elected," he said in an interview. "I want to get them on the record as quickly as I can. I don't want to find out after the fact."

Gun rights advocates went on red alert in October after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reversed Bush administration policy by throwing her support behind the convening of a U.N...

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The U.N. vote marked the second time that the Obama administration has signaled support for an international treaty that U.S. gun rights activists denounce.

At a spring meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mr. Obama said he would urge the Senate to ratify the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (CIFTA). President Clinton signed the treaty, but the Senate never approved it.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who is facing a tough re-election fight in 2010, responded with a tepid statement that did not support the treaty, and the chamber has taken no formal action since...

[neverdem]

BANG!

[bravotu]

Ping, Pow, Poop.

[sig226]

Here will be a nice opportunity to catch phoney blue dogs and real RINOs, should the opportunity present. Let’s say the treaty passes and Congress votes on a bill to abide by the U.N. regulations. Assume that there are enough morons in congress that it will pass with a comfortable margin. First to be outed will be the RINOs who voted for it. After that, there will be certain democrats who vote against it. How many of these will vote against it because the party said it was okay to vote that way to keep constituents happy? A review of records of closer votes will tell.

This is always useful things to know, although we already have a solid list of the RINOs.

[neverdem]

Here will be a nice opportunity to catch phoney blue dogs and real RINOs, should the opportunity present. Let’s say the treaty passes and Congress votes on a bill to abide by the U.N. regulations.

I wouldn't bet on it. Check the Coburn Amendment.

They took back Congress in 2006 by moving to the right on the Second Amendment and abortion where needed to win. Look at what happened when Holder said he wanted to ban so-called "assault weapons." Nothing. Starting in 2006, the rats knocked off mostly RINOs, mainly in the House.

[GraceG]

We would have done better with Tancredo going against Obama than McCain.... I always liked Tancredo.