Here we go - BARR: The U.N. comes after America’s guns

[Patoz]

BARR: The U.N. comes after America’s guns

...According to experts familiar with this process, the mere act of signing the treaty — a responsibility that would fall to Secretary of State John Kerry — would “obligate” the U.S. government as a signatory not to act “contrary to” its terms. Those “terms” are, to quote Ross Perot, the “devil in the detail” — found not only within the four corners of the document itself, but in companion, foundational documents on which it is based.

For example, a 2006 U.N. report (authored by an American academic, Barbara Frey) lays out with frightening clarity where advocates of the approach reflected in the Arms Trade Treaty are coming from. According to this Eurocentric worldview, there is no “right” to self-defense, and the national government is obligated to restrict civilian ownership of firearms, including determining which citizens properly “understand” firearms and might, therefore, be permitted to possess them...

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/19/barr-the-un-comes-after-americas-guns/#ixzz2cR4fhdQT

 

[TURTLE]

We should drop out of the UN. They are useless . Always have been and always will be. I watched them just stand by and watch as a Genocide was being commited ??? Why even be there if your not gonna help? And they want to disarm us? They have to know what happens to a defenseless population!!!

 

[Patoz]

I agree, and we need to stop sending millions to all of these countries until we get our own back yard cleaned up, and maybe not even then.

 

[donr101395]

I agree that we don't need the UN in any way shape or form, but it's already been settled in case law that treaties don't override U.S. law or the constitution.

 

[JohnAL]

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[shootnstarz]

I agree that we don't need the UN in any way shape or form, but it's already been settled in case law that treaties don't override U.S. law or the constitution.

This only works with a government that operates within the limits of it's own laws and the Constitution. This we do not have.

Rick

 

[Choppersled]

I wish we could "like" comments on here.

 

[Viking1204]

Look how useless the UN is, Syria is using chemical weapons on their citizens and they just stand by and watch.

 

[Snow Bird]

When has the UN ever done ANYTHING..Don't worry about anything..