Its not about Gun Control, or how old the case is. Its about the Supremacy of the US Constitution to Treaties, which is WELL SETTLED law. It was one of the first issues the Courts wrestled with, and they have consistently ruled the way people worried about such things would hope they would. Reid is the standing law on the subject. Treaties are SUBORDINATE to the Constitution.
And speaking of lobbyists- Im a life member of the NRA. My 7 year old son is ALSO a life member of the NRA. I support the organization and the 2nd amendment fully. But I also beleive in truth in advertising. And every few years the NRA dusts off this little diddy, they hit the phone banks and the ILA email alerts, and they scream "The UN is poised to take your guns... Would you like to give us some money to stop them?" I personally find it insulting to the intelligence of gun owners. Maybe its me, but I find breathless, Chicken Little, scare tactics that play on peoples unfounded fears to be really cringe inducing. And then it starts shooting around the internet like the "Telephone game" and good intentioned people (and I have no doubt the posters above fit that description) through no fault of their own, pass it on because they have no reason to question the veracity of what they've heard.
The fact is its REALLY HARD to ratify a Treaty in this country. And thats a GOOD thing! It makes entering into highly controversial agreements with foreign powers unlikely.... There is a LOT more support for the Kyoto Treaty than there is for this dog... And yet the Kyoto treaty remains UNSIGNED after 13 years despite the last 18 months of Obama and a 60 seat Democratic Senate.
One- There will NEVER in my lifetime be 67 votes for a treaty to ban firearms.
Two- If there were enough votes it would violate the 2nd Amendment which the Supreme Court has now ruled protects an individual right to keep and bear firearms ordinarily possessed by law abiding citizens (Handguns, Rifles and Shotguns) and would be struck down before it could be implemented.
There are enough REAL threats to the 2nd Amendment without dragging out the strawman "UN Gun Banning treaty" boogie man every few years. All theyd have to do to get me to give a donation is say "Barbera Feinst" and before the last "EIN" was out Id have a check in the mail.
So the UN delegates are meeting to discuss this joke, and feel like bigshots, and pat each other on the back,.... And like everything else the U.N. does it will be a complete waste of time, and be absolutely meaningless.
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