Posted on 11/13/2014 10:12:32 AM PST by raptor22
Gun Control: To some, concern over a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty set to take effect Dec. 24 is much ado about nothing. But a president unconstrained by Congress or the Constitution may try to impose severe limits on gun rights.
All treaties must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate, and that's not about to happen in the case of the unratified Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), particularly after the 2014 election that gave the GOP Senate control.
The same, of course, could have been said about the Kyoto Protocol and other climate change deals that mandate that governments tie their economies in knots to meet arbitrary emission goals to save the planet. The Senate has not and won't ratify any of those either.
Yet a president who pays no attention to Congress or the Constitution has through Environmental Protection Agency regulations sought to impose Kyoto and cap-and-trade through regulation and fiat.
The Orwellian-named United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, which has disarmed none of the world's tyrants or terrorists, has announced on its website that the ATT will take effect on Christmas Eve, a lump of coal in the stockings of anyone who believes, as our Founding Fathers did when they wrote the Second Amendment, that guns in the hands of private citizens are the best defense against predators, terrorists and, yes, tyrannical governments.
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True. Still, we voted down the UN Convention on Biodiversity and the courts still respect its tenets in American law, such as listing subspecies or "evolutionarily significant units."
The cops don’t view themselves as civilians. Just like the NSA views private contracts as better than the constitution
U.N. GUN GRAB PING
The problem is, that there are many in the electorate who love what he/they are doing.
Amazing.
IMHO
Foreign troops.
Foreign troops would be happy to comply.
All of these climate and arms treaties are meant to effect one country, is the US. Only the US is stupid enough to think they mean something.
I thought that biden signed us on to the deal. Illegally.
treaties are not law and any treaty that violates US law is null and void
Unfortunately Obama uses EO’s to abide by these ungratified treaties, whether they are voted down or not
Likely foreign "peacekeepers", which can be called in in the case of armed conflict.
Foreign troops = foreign enemy - I am oath bound to kill them and protect the US Constitution.
Let them come and I and others like me will shove their faces in the ground and make widows of their wives!
But then again, not even foreign troops would dare land here in the US and try such a stupid task. The world knows that the US Citizen is one that is heavily armed and prior experience either in local hunting or military or both - and they aren’t going to attempt it. There will be no Red Dawn here.
Foreign troops = foreign enemy - I am oath bound to kill them and protect the US Constitution.
Let them come and I and others like me will shove their faces in the ground and make widows of their wives!
But then again, not even foreign troops would dare land here in the US and try such a stupid task. The world knows that the US Citizen is one that is heavily armed and prior experience either in local hunting or military or both - and they aren’t going to attempt it. There will be no Red Dawn here.
100% agree!
You can wave your hand all you want, but they will still be enforced by every level of government. BTW, the Supremacy Clause may not say what you think it does. The commas are a problem.
Poppycock. We have treaties on the books now that are enforced that wildly exceed the scope of Constitutionally enumerated powers. That is why, for example, treaties are cited specifically as authority in USC Title XVI, Section 1531.
“We have treaties on the books now that are enforced that wildly exceed the scope of Constitutionally enumerated powers.”
If true, and I’m not saying it isn’t, then this is a great wrong.
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