Posted on 11/08/2012 4:13:01 PM PST by raptor22
Second Amendment: Within hours of re-election, the administration fast-tracked a treaty in the United Nations that transcends borders and tramples our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. It was no coincidence.
Less than 24 hours after President Obama's re-election, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations helped move the U.N.'s Arms Control Treaty a step closer to enactment. America joined 157 other nations in voting Wednesday to finalize the treaty in March. None was opposed and there were 18 abstentions.
U.N. delegates and gun-control activists had complained that talks collapsed in July largely because Obama feared attacks from Republican rival Mitt Romney if his administration was seen as openly supporting the pact. But once the election was over, the Obama administration had more flexibility to pull the trigger on supporting the pact.
The Obama administration, which reversed long-standing U.S. opposition to the treaty in 2009, says the treaty does not threaten our Second Amendment rights and applies only to international arms trade. But its record of opposition to private gun ownership and its deference to international bodies and their authority give us pause.
So does a paper by the U.N.'s Coordinating Action on Small Arms. It notes that arms have been "misused by lawful owners" and demands that the "arms trade therefore be regulated in ways that would ... minimize the misuse of legally owned weapons."
Is an American defending his home against intruders just such a "misuse"?
Even if the treaty applied only to transfers of small arms between nations, would that mean restrictions on our ability to aid allies such as Israel and Taiwan? Would we be forbidden from supporting resistance movements around the world that rise up against the very dictators who support this treaty?
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Agreed, Bring it.
Ping
Good points
None of the republicans, even the liberal ones, would dare touch this. And even some Democrats (eg Joe Manchin) wouldn't vote for it.
The American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the Colonists.
Fitting that it ends with the Colonists demanding to be disarmed.
The NWO agenda has gone into super-hyperdrive.
take the guns which belong to the idiots which voted for him in WI, OH, MI, FL, NV, PA, OH,
they shoudl be be the first to go seeing as they voted for it
Then:
Don’t worry - Obamacare will never pass the House.
Don’t worry - Obamacare will never pass the Senate.
Don’t worry - Obamacare will never pass.
Don’t worry - the court will throw out Obamacare.
Don’t worry - now that Obamacare is upheld, the Republicans will win in a landslide.
Now:
Don’t worry - they’ll never disarm us.
Flexibility.
we came out in my county in FL
http://enrnow.votesjc.com/FL/St_Johns/42920/111353/en/md.html?cid=0103
that little blue area went Dem where the students and blacks live
and they say republicans never turned out, it was liek this all over FL in the republican conties and we;re not a small county here
Don’t need 2/3s of the Senators. Just need 2/3s of the Senators PRESENT.
I’m sure they can arrange a “dark of night” passage of the treaty.
Whats the point of hoping for the best anymore...The balance has tipped against us.
Thank our non-voting voters with their integrity and litmus tests.
The day OStalin comes for the guns, Americans are going to start to pile up. Americans are not going to turn in their guns. Where I live, the county sheriff whom I am kin too, told me that it would take THIRTY MINUTES for a deputy to get too us. Someone breaks in and has 29 minutes to do his thing, murder us, rob us and be gone. I WILL NOT GIVE UP MY GUN. I WILL NOT!!!
LOL! This is SO TRUE!
Mine are here, come and get em. You can have the ammo first.
You forgot,
Don’t worry-The anti-homo vote was 32-0
It's going to be the skin-headed thugs of the local SWAT teams who will try first. What do you suppose an IED will do to a crown vic? Ask all the vets from Iraq and the 'Stan how much fun it was to have EVERY hand against them.
No prisoners...
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