You feelin’ lucky UN? Go ahead. Make my day.
I’m certain at different points in our American history we’ve all come to a place where we think how could this be happening?
I can imagine how uncertain the times of the Civil War were. I bet prohibition pretty much sucked. Did the Depression feel like the end of the world? In WWII did we think we were going to be speaking Japanese or German at any point?
There have just always been times where outside forces have attacked us, times our Government has attacked us and times when we have almost imploded upon ourselves.
I have to say, I believe with all that I am, we live in one of the most frightening and pivotal moments in our entire history. The actions occurring right now have the ability to change the way we live forever. The rights fought for and paid in blood over 200 years ago could end quite easily in the very near future. Or I should say, our remaining rights.
Our founders had the incredible foresight as to the importance to protecting our Second Amendment. The UN, doesn’t share the same views.
“…to disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them…” – George Mason
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms…” – Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Member of the First U.S. Senate.
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?” – Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d Ed. Philadelphia, 1836.
And most importantly that our Congress and Current leaders of Government seem to be forgetting…
“The ultimate authority…resides in the people alone.” – James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, in Federalist Paper No. 46.
And when we say people, we say American people. The citizens who reside in this great nation. That’s who gets to choose.
The UN is negotiating an arms treaty. Iran has been asked to become involved in the process. Yes, seriously. This is the kind of trouble brewing you see in a Gary Larson cartoon, like the crocodile farm next door to the Skydiving school. Nothing good can come from it.
This treaty has the potential to expose the records of American gun owners. “It cheapens our rights as American citizens, and weakens our sovereignty,” says the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre.
The Obama administration in 2009 reversed Bush administration policy by agreeing to take part in the talks
Greg Suchan, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs from 2000 to 2007 warns this Treaty could prevent us from arming and helping our friends like Taiwan and Israel. (Hmmm, it’s making sense isn’t it?)
Amnesty International claims the treaty would help control unregulated weapons that cause over 1,500 deaths worldwide on a daily basis. But giving power to Iran who is accused of arming the Syrian Government by the UN completely befuddles me.
The details of the treaty are not finalized, but LaPierre emphasizes, “The UN view is that governments – not individual citizens – ought to protect people.”
It gives the UN more global power and becomes invasive of our rights to privacy and our 2nd Amendment rights to bear arms. Heavy regulations could befall Americans.
“If they get this through, then what comes along is the institutionalizing of the whole gun control-ban movement within the bureaucracy of UN – with a permanent funding mechanism that we [in America] will be mainly paying for,” LaPierre told Fox News.
“The world’s worst human rights abusers will end up voting for this, while the Obama administration has not drawn a line in the sand like the previous administration did. Instead, it is trying to be a part of this train wreck because they think they can somehow finesse it. But, to me, there is no finessing the individual freedoms of American citizens.”
Amen. Now pass me the ammunition.