As we’ve seen time and again,
the United Nations is little more than an ineffective, morally squishy,
highly corrupted joke of an international bureaucracy that in the long
run has done hardly anything productive in stabilizing global affairs or
promoting lasting peace. Honestly, why do we contribute funding (and
the lion’s share, at that!) to this globalist boondoggle? So we can be
lectured about how our economic prowess is ostensibly creating a climate
emergency while China sits smugly on their Human Rights Council? Thanks, but I’ll pass on the proffered guilt trip.
Throughout the month, the United Nations is working on an arms treaty ostensibly aimed at reducing violence that has America’s pro-Second Amendment crowd up in arms. While President Bush was reliably resistant to heeding the U.N. on the idea (bravo!), President Obama reversed U.S. policy on that score in 2009 by bringing the U.S. back to the bargaining table:
International talks in New York are going on throughout July on the final wording of the so-called Arms Trade Treaty, which supporters such as Amnesty International USA say would rein in unregulated weapons that kill an estimated 1,500 people daily around the world. But critics, including the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre, warn the treaty would mark a major step toward the eventual erosion of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment gun-ownership rights. …
Read more: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/11/u-n-arms-treaty-aiming-to-regulate-weapons-transfers-worldwide/
Throughout the month, the United Nations is working on an arms treaty ostensibly aimed at reducing violence that has America’s pro-Second Amendment crowd up in arms. While President Bush was reliably resistant to heeding the U.N. on the idea (bravo!), President Obama reversed U.S. policy on that score in 2009 by bringing the U.S. back to the bargaining table:
International talks in New York are going on throughout July on the final wording of the so-called Arms Trade Treaty, which supporters such as Amnesty International USA say would rein in unregulated weapons that kill an estimated 1,500 people daily around the world. But critics, including the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre, warn the treaty would mark a major step toward the eventual erosion of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment gun-ownership rights. …
Read more: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/11/u-n-arms-treaty-aiming-to-regulate-weapons-transfers-worldwide/
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