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If the US can’t fix its gun policy, maybe an international lawsuit can (barf alert)
Boston Globe via MSN ^ | November 12, 2023 | Jonathan Lowy and Manuel Oliver

Posted on 11/19/2023 10:32:38 AM PST by DoodleBob

…It’s time for a new approach. That’s why we are bringing the “Lawsuit for Survival” before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It’s the first suit to demand that the United States uphold the human right to live, free from gun violence. It’s part of a broader global Campaign for Survival to reframe the gun debate by ensuring that all nations, including the United States, recognize and protect our most fundamental right.

…Our suit asks the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which has jurisdiction over the United States as part of the Organization of the American States, to affirm that international law requires nations to protect people from gun violence, and that by enabling and tolerating ubiquitous shootings, the United States violated its obligations under human rights laws…

The obligation to protect life under human rights laws is consistent with America’s founding principles. “America’s First Freedom” is not a right to guns, as the National Rifle Association claims; the first right the Founders enshrined in the Declaration of Independence was the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Guns weren’t mentioned. When the Framers later addressed “arms” in the Second Amendment, it is our view that they intended to protect state military units (“a well-regulated militia”), not individual gun rights. Nor did they intend that gun-toting individuals, rather than government entities, should defend fundamental rights.

The right to live outweighs the right to own guns….Even the most avid gun owners should agree that the right of children to live deserves more protection than gun ownership. The gun violence epidemic in the United States will never end until the federal government recognizes that its most basic obligation, morally as well as legally, is to protect Americans’ right to live and not be shot.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; lawfare; lol; oas; parkland
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (OAS), which in turn is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.

Headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, the OAS is a "multilateral regional body focused on human rights, electoral oversight, social and economic development, and security in the Western Hemisphere", according to the Council on Foreign Relations.

1 posted on 11/19/2023 10:32:38 AM PST by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

- And “interference with the internal affairs of the member states”


2 posted on 11/19/2023 10:36:40 AM PST by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: DoodleBob

The OAS looks like another commie group President Trump needs to shut down.


3 posted on 11/19/2023 10:36:52 AM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: DoodleBob

THE REST OF THE WORLD CANNOT TAMPER WITH OUR CONSTITUTION.

A HARD “NO”.


4 posted on 11/19/2023 10:37:34 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: DoodleBob

Treaties are always subordinate to the US Constitution within the United States.


5 posted on 11/19/2023 10:40:28 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: DoodleBob

The challenge to anyone that wants to control guns is to take the guns out of the hands of criminals first. …and criminal countries, like Mexico.


6 posted on 11/19/2023 10:40:45 AM PST by Eva
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....”A well regulated militia being the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution....
you can tell these human rights advocates or whatever they fancy themselves to go to hell.....


7 posted on 11/19/2023 10:41:01 AM PST by TokarevM57
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I’m old enough to remember when the Israelis were free from gun violence, well, at least until the Hamanimals showed up with guns to torture, rape, burn, decapitate and murder by virtue of them having guns, and the Israelis not having guns...


8 posted on 11/19/2023 10:41:07 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: ridesthemiles

” has jurisdiction over the United States “

ya ... good luck with that

I don’t remember agreeing ...


9 posted on 11/19/2023 10:41:16 AM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: DoodleBob

The OAS can go pee up a rope.


10 posted on 11/19/2023 10:42:42 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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“Demand that the United States uphold the human right to live, ‘

We have that already-

That’s why we have the 2nd Amendment, that tells the GOVERNEMNT that they cannot disarm The People.


11 posted on 11/19/2023 10:42:52 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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If you remove gun deaths of a certain segment of our population, gun death stats are less than many countries


12 posted on 11/19/2023 10:43:49 AM PST by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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My right to defend myself by any means necessary supercedes any rights of any group or reason...If a bunch of kids have to die so be it...If it were up to the Left they would be aborted anyways.


13 posted on 11/19/2023 10:44:57 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: DoodleBob

The Supreme Court is always supreme with respect to the US.


14 posted on 11/19/2023 10:45:42 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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Dear Jonathan Lowry and Manuel Oliver,

Shut the f*** up and sit the f*** down before you get shot.

Love,

Laz


15 posted on 11/19/2023 10:47:12 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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Even the most avid gun owners should agree that the right of children to live deserves more protection than gun ownership.

And they will eventually apply this "logic" to car ownership, chainsaw ownership, knife ownership, dog ownership, cigarette lighter ownership, plastic bag ownership, and computer ownership.

Prepare to become peaceful agrarians, bringing in the harvest for your betters while they raise your children to be their sex toys with no backtalk from you. /s

16 posted on 11/19/2023 10:47:38 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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the Inter-American Court of Human Rights = commie front group tasked with the disarmament of civilian populations.


17 posted on 11/19/2023 10:48:32 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Yes ... we do need to fix our ‘gun policy’ ... there are something on the order of 20,000 anti-gun laws that need to be removed from the books.


18 posted on 11/19/2023 10:51:55 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DoodleBob

As I remember... The British tried that


19 posted on 11/19/2023 10:52:32 AM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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To: DoodleBob

Leftists tools. Always wanting to disarm the citizens instead of punishing the criminals.


20 posted on 11/19/2023 10:53:17 AM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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