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U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms
http://blogs.forbes.com/larrybell/2011/06/07/u-n-agreement-should-have-all-gun-owners-up-in-arms/ ^

Posted on 06/07/2011 1:53:18 PM PDT by Scythian

Edited on 06/07/2011 6:03:37 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

It may not come as surprising news to many of you that the United Nations doesn’t approve of our Second Amendment. Not one bit. And they very much hope to do something about it with help from some powerful American friends. Under the guise of a proposed global “Small Arms Treaty” premised to fight “terrorism”, “insurgency” and “international crime syndicates” you can be quite certain that an even more insidious threat is being targeted – our Constitutional right for law-abiding citizens to own and bear arms.


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To: Ender Wiggin
Small bands and street mobs the government can handle.

Britain and the IRA, for example, right?

101 posted on 06/08/2011 6:13:18 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

My preference: go for the suits.


102 posted on 06/08/2011 7:21:50 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

“Article six of the U.S. Constitution:
...”and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land...””

It’s well settled that the Constitution needs to be intercepted in such a way as to avoid conflicting clauses. Therefore a treaty cannot be contrary to any part of the Constitution. So just as any law passed by Congress is assumed null and void from it’s effective date if it violates the terms of the Constitution, any treaty must be treated in the same way.

One clause of the Constitution cannot nullify or alter another of itself or in any action done under it’s provision. Or, to put it shorter, the Constitution has no poison pills.


103 posted on 06/09/2011 10:36:23 AM PDT by doogerwv
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To: doogerwv

Makes sense. Unfortunately, it’d be left up to SCOTUS to decide. I’m not impressed with their track record, nor the undue deference their screwed up decisions get from congress.


104 posted on 06/09/2011 11:03:19 AM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: DuncanWaring

The IRA effective units were small but were part of a large organization with international connections and good internal intel and commo. The larger organization picked where and when and made sure things were set up properly.

Look what a platoon of Marines can do, with the backing of a few tens of thousands of people, driving subs, controlling satellites, collecting intel and info. Without that backing they’d be a dangerous bunch for sure but much easier to deal with.

A few small bands on their own would not be that effective.

Look at a smakll neighborhood gang vs the Crips.


105 posted on 06/13/2011 8:11:48 AM PDT by Ender Wiggin
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To: Ender Wiggin

And then there were two guys with one rifle and a ratty old beatermobile who darned near shut-down the DC area for a couple of weeks a few years back, passing through roadblocks with impunity, and, to the best of my recollection, no external support.


106 posted on 06/13/2011 5:39:04 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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