(Originally published in January of 2010)
The UN IS COMING TO TAKE
YOUR GUNS, AMERICA.
OBAMA LEADS
THE UN GUN-GRABBER PACK!
A Commentary
by J. D. Longstreet
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Back in October of 2009,
the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, publicly announced that the US WOULD
support UN negotiations of an Arms Trade Treaty to regulate international gun
trafficking. The Bush administration,
you may remember, and, notably, former Permanent U.S. Representative to the
United Nations, John Bolton, opposed negotiations of this treaty for years.
Secretary of State, Hillary
Clinton has said: "Conventional arms transfers are a crucial national
security concern for the United States, and we have always supported effective action to
control the international transfer of arms. The United States is prepared to work hard for a strong international
standard in this area."
The US then joined a vote, which was almost unanimous; to
adopt a resolution, which would set a schedule, a timetable, on the proposed
Arms Trade Treaty. Within that
resolution was a proposal to finalize the accord in the year 2012.
Gun Owners in the US are gravely concerned over this move by the UN – and
-- more importantly, by the Obama Regime, to support it. To many gun enthusiasts it is a dangerous
submission of America's Constitution to “Global Governance” -- and there is
a growing belief that it is an attempt by the Obama Regime to create
private gun control laws it knows it cannot get through the US Congress. It
doesn’t take any imagination, at all, to quickly understand that this treaty
would effectively cancel rights granted US citizens by the 2nd
amendment to the US Constitution.
Our right to “keep and bear arms” would no longer exist.
US gun rights supporters
are up in arms – and with good reason.
John Bolton, former Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations,
fought the proposed treaty for quite a while.
He has seen it up close and personally. Bolton,
in remarks he made recently to Ginny Simone, managing editor of the National
Rifle Associations' NRA News and host of the NRA's Daily News program, said the
following: "The administration is trying to act as though this is
really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but
there's no doubt – as was the case back over a decade ago – that the real
agenda here is domestic firearms control." Bolton continued: "There's never been any
doubt when these groups talk about saying they only want to prohibit illicit
international trafficking in small arms and light weapons, it begs the whole
question of what's legal and what's not legal. And many of the implications of
these treaty negotiations are very much in their domestic application. So,
whatever the appearance on the surface, there's no doubt that domestic firearm
control is right at the top of their agenda." Bolton went on to say: "After the treaty
is approved and it comes into force, you will find out that it has this
implication or that implication and it requires the Congress to adopt some
measure that restricts ownership of firearms," he said. "The
administration knows it cannot obtain this kind of legislation purely in a
domestic context … They will use an international agreement as an excuse to get
domestically what they couldn't otherwise."
It turns out
there are some seven countries pushing the UN Arms Treaty, Great Britain,
Australia, Argentina, Costa Rica,
Finland, Japan, and Kenya.
Interestingly, Great Britain has had a virtual explosion of violent crime since
they all but banned guns back in 1997.
Just a few months ago, the British Mailonline reported that England and Wales now have the highest violent crime in the European
Union – a rate which, in fact, exceeds that of the United States and even hyper-violent South Africa. Mailonline
went on to say: “In the decade following [the election of the Labor Party] in
1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 percent to 1.158
million – more than two every minute.”
It seems that Great Britain, with their near ban of
gun ownership by private citizens, has a violent crime victimization rate of
2,034 per 100,000 residents. While
here, in the, oh, so violent, USA, with our far less restrictive gun laws, we have a
violence rate of only 466 crimes per 100,000 residents. Even South Africa’s rate is lower, at 1,677
violent crimes per 100,000. You can read
an exceptional article on this subject HERE.
In the land
“down under,” Australia, the Aussies are
suffering an escalation in violent crimes as well. The Australia
Institute of Criminology reports that assault alone occurs at a rate
of 840 per 100,000 – a rate that increased dramatically since the Port Arthur ban.
You might find
it interesting what the Aussies have to put up with now that firearms are
nearly banned in their fair land. It is, indeed, a warning for their cousins,
the Americans. “The Manly Daily” reported, back in October of 2009, that
pursuant to the Australian Firearms
Act of 1996: “Northern Beaches
Police will be turning up on the doorstep of every licensed gun owner in the
area over the next four years to check their firearms are stored correctly.
Operation Aston follows the gun amnesty that ended on May 31 and
will target guns stored incorrectly and the security of gun safes, Northern Beaches
Commander Doreen Cruickshank said.
“Gun owners have a responsibility to ensure their weapon is safely
stored at all times when not in use,” Supt Cruickshank said.
“Licensing police will be attending the home of every licensed
firearm owner in the northern beaches over the next four years to inspect every
weapon and check the gun safe.
“Officers will be examining all gun safes to ensure they comply
with the legislative requirements, particularly in relation to the standard and
security of safes.”
Supt Cruickshank reminded all legitimate owners that under the
Firearms Act they must take all reasonable precautions to ensure the
safekeeping of their firearms.
“It’s especially important that weapons are stored in such a way as
to limit the possibility of loss or theft, so they don’t come into the
possession of a person who isn’t authorized to hold them,” she said.
The maximum penalty for incorrect storage of a weapon is two years
in jail.
You may read the article HERE.
THIS is where America is headed if the
“gun-grabbers” get their “reasonable gun control” laws. They know they cannot get those laws passed
through Congress but they have an excellent chance to get them through the UN
Arms Trade Treaty.
J. D.
Longstreet
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