Posted on 09/25/2013 3:52:33 PM PDT by raptor22
Second Amendment: The Senate is unlikely to ratify a United Nations arms treaty signed by John Kerry, but gun control zealots will use it as justification for "common sense" infringements on our constitutional right.
The secretary of state signed the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty on Wednesday despite repeated indications that it would be dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate. One warning was a letter from Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., that said the treaty would be rejected just like "other U.N.-sponsored treaties which threaten our country's sovereignty."
Inhofe reminded Kerry that the pact would "collect dust alongside the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Kyoto Protocol, to name a few, which have all been rejected by the U.S. Senate and the American people."
Earlier this year, Inhofe introduced an amendment to a budget proposal that would prevent the U.S. from entering into the U.N. arms treaty in order to uphold the Second Amendment. His amendment passed 53-46.
So why sign a treaty that the Senate won't ratify into law and which some argue won't affect domestic gun rights anyway?
Because it will give the president cover to do on gun control what he does so well on other issues — ignore Congress, the Constitution and we the people so he can govern by regulation and executive order.
The treaty will also give state and local governments an argument to restrict gun rights at the local level, despite the recent electoral smack down of two anti-gun legislators in Colorado. It will, as well, provide the courts, which are increasingly prone to take foreign laws and treaties as relevant, with leverage against the Second Amendment.
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The Senate will never ratify it.
“The Senate will never ratify it.”
Never say “never” with this Senate.
We lost over 50 thousand good men to the NVA and Viet Cong during the war.
It makes my heart heavy that we couldn’t have lost johnf#ck#nkerryIgotapurpleheartbyrice to at least a little bit of collateral damage.
I hate to be this way; but I hope the SOB dies a horrible, painful death alone in the dark.
You have to realize that in the leftist dictionary of Newspeak, “common sense” is a synonym for “utterly preposterous.”
We have to sign the Treaty before we know what’s in the Treaty....
Kerry ought to be staked out, disemboweled and his guts tied to a fast horse thats given a swat on the ass. All in the tradition of Gengis Kahn of course.
Americans are armed to the hilt already. Oh, by the way...Americans are armed for a reason.
Push too far Sugar and you'll end up bringing down the wrath of freedom right smack dab on topp’ya.
Not advocating, just sayin.
May God forgive me, I agree with you about Jean François Kerrie’s ultimate fate.
My late nephew, Richard Callahan, was an E5 helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He was so damaged that he died at age 56 of heart failure.
He was a mere five years younger than I, and he was a beautiful boy and a courageous man. I loved him very much.
If only Kerry had taken his place.
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