Sen. Cruz: UN Arms Treaty 'Must Never be Ratified'

Newsmax ^ | 02 Apr 2013 | Paul Scicchitano

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While the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first international treaty attempting to regulate the $60 billion global small arms trade on Tuesday, the measure is likely to be dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate as Republicans have repeatedly voiced concerns that such a measure is a backdoor attempt to usurp Second Amendment gun rights.

"UN Arms Treaty should be rejected outright by US Senate," tweeted Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday. "It is international gun regulation, plain and simple & it must never be ratified."

Even before the international document was drafted, the Senate last month voted to prevent the United States from entering into such an arms treaty with all 45 Republicans and eight Democrats, supporting an amendment drafted by Oklahoma Sen. James M. Inhofe. The measure would require two-thirds approval for ratification by the upper chamber, which has a total of only 100 seats.

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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Tuesday wrote to President Obama urging him not to sign the Arms Trade Treaty, calling it a “threat to Americans’ constitutional liberty” and threatening legal action.

“If you sign it, and if the U.S. Senate ratifies the treaty, Texas will lead the charge to have the treaty overturned in court as a violation of the U.S. Constitution,” wrote Abbott in the letter.
Enforcement is left up to the nations that ratify it. The pact requires these countries to assist each other in investigating and prosecuting violations.

[b4its2late]

This treaty needs to be DOA in the Senate.

[longtermmemmory]

the senate needs to actually have a vote to reject it.

[KarlInOhio]

It must not only "never be ratified", it must have a vote to turn down its ratification. There are many treaties which are in limbo of being signed but never submitted for ratification. This treaty must not be added to the stack to wait for a politically opportune moment.

[manc]

how long before states and parts of states like NC, VA,SC, MS, AL, OK,TN, AZ, AK and north east and west FL , really anything above the I-4 corridor just say enough is enough let us leave

[JPG]

Sen Cruz shines brightly in a black sea of political wussies.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

FUUN!!!

[manc]

has there ever been an administration before this which has been sued so many times because they violate their own laws like drugs and immigration while suing states which enforce their laws like FL,AZ, AL, SC?

[snowrip]

What Cruz needs to say is:

“TREATIES WITH FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS DO NOT SUPERCEDE THE US CONSTITUTION. Period.”

[rarestia]

Actually most of the I4 corridor was red last election. Pinellas and Hillsborough (St. Petersburg and Tampa, proper) counties along with Orange (Orlando) are problematic, but counties like Polk, Hernando, Pasco, Sumter, Citrus, etc. are all very right-of-center. I call Pinellas my home, and I can tell you that if it wasn’t for St. Pete and parts of Clearwater, we’d still be red.

[CaptainAmiigaf]

One hundred senators in the U.S. Senate openly and publicly took and swore an oath to “Protect and Defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, both foreign and domestic.”
Now we will have definitive evidence of exactly which of them took the oath with on hand raised and the other behind their backs, fingers crossed.
Talk about open and deliberate TREASON!!
Let it begin.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“This treaty needs to be DOA in the Senate”

It is and always has been but there will still be a couple of nut jobs coming on to post that it will be passed at midnight with 34 votes. Don’t you believe it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Any US Senator who is against this POS treaty, needs to watch Harry Reid. They need to modify their schedules to match his. Be in attendance when he is. Be where he is when not in session. Watch him closely. He will try to run the equivalent of a halfback toss sweep play around the end to get this thing passed. Late night when all his minions are in chambers.

[RobbyS]

They hate him because he says conservative things. And means them. He says what his Dad says, and they both mean what they say.

[miele man]

I think I recall reading that a section of this “treaty” would require ALL senior citizens to be relieved of any and all weapons they possess. Can’t trust all these old codgers, doncha know.

[izzatzo]

Sen. Cruz gets another one right, no wonder his Senate colleagues hate him.

[b4its2late]

Yep

[Tyrannis]

watch them pass it.....

[Red Steel]

Go Senator Cruz...

Here is a couple of UN Treaties supported and signed by Dem presidents that were never ratified:

The ‘globaloney’ UN Law of Seas Treaty (LOST) with origins and support by Jimmuuh Carter and the losers from Foggy Bottom, but this junk treaty gets dusted off and threatens to be ratified every few years. Good guy RR sent this utopia socialism to Davy Jones’ locker and fired the people who were responsible.

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol, aka the Globull Warming treaty that was signed by AlGore for Billy. This trash got a Senate floor vote that ended up 95 to Zero against. LoL.

[hattend]

I believe every Dem Senator has come out for it.

I could swear I read that on FR yesterday.