POLL - UN GUN BAN ON CNN

[cxm]

CNN is doing a poll on the UN Gun Ban effort .... AND WE ARE LOSING...

Vote and like the democRATs do vote often (Turn off your cookies for additional votes)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/21/un.us. ... index.html

Chuck

[Paladin]

Thanks for the link!



For anybody who hasn't sent their letter/postcards in, it's not too late.

[jbirds1210]

DONE! Thanks for the link!
Jason

[longtooth]

Won't come up for me . Ill try again later.

[dws1117]

voted and letters sent.

[gene]

another vote as I type we are behine hurry to vote.

[jimlongley]

I don't understand what the fuss is over that vote. They already said they aren't trying to outlaw lawful gun ownership... I have no problem at all with further action removing guns from UNLAWFUL owners.

The problem is their definition of "lawful gun ownership" which seems to consist of single shot .22 short rimfires and individual rounds of ammo doled out by a government agency.

[jbirds1210]

I don't want to turn this into a political arena...I know that is a subject that friends should avoid, but I think that you underestimate the power of a liberal majority congress or someone like Hillary in office. I believe that this is a real possibility and so does the NRA.

[longtooth]

And so do I. Anything Rabecca Petterson has anything to do with is anti gun & stinks.

[KD5NRH]

Well, regardless, I honestly seriously doubt the UN is going to get anywhere with this. There's too many republicans in this country for any ban to happen :P

I suspect some folks thought there were too many jews in Germany for Hitler to have his way, too.

[jimlongley]

Well, regardless, I honestly seriously doubt the UN is going to get anywhere with this. There's too many republicans in this country for any ban to happen :P

I suspect some folks thought there were too many jews in Germany for Hitler to have his way, too.

Hitler had the advantage of "the bully pulpit" as Theodore Roosevelt called it. His party was in power and they were able to create and distribute caricatures of Jews, Gypsies, and others as undesireable due to physical characteristics. This initially led to widespread support for the Nazi Party's policies, and once the bell was rung it proved to be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

The same thing could just as easily happen to gun owners should the wrong people get into power - we have already seen caricatures of gun owners as inbred bubbas and such, we have even had Mario Cuomo tell the national press that he wasn't worried about gun owners and the NRA because they were just a bunch of beer bellied drunks who shot up the woods and lied to their wives about where they were on weekends. That statement cost Mario a lot, but it serves as a good example.

All we would need is for one of the Brady bunch to get in there and arrange an agreement, like NAFTA (which is technically still a treaty but has never been treated as such) which doesn't have to be approved by congress, and the next thing we know there will be posters out showing the snaggle toothed gun owners, slobbering down their wife beater clad beer bellies, with text encouraging people to turn in their gun owning neighbors to make their neighborhood safe for the UN.

I realize that's somewhat extreme, but given the history of such things in the world . . .

[longtooth]

Not nearlyu so extreme as some folks think. All of the above is VERY WELL SAID.

[anygunanywhere]

I don't understand what the fuss is over that vote. They already said they aren't trying to outlaw lawful gun ownership... I have no problem at all with further action removing guns from UNLAWFUL owners.

You really are not serious are you? How can anyone who values their rights under our constitution believe that the UN has your best interest at heart? The most corrupt organization ever assembled?

The blue helmets are our worst enemy.