erkfox wrote:People really are paranoid about the UN. Remember all those UN troops billboards here in TX years ago? I dont get it . The UN is one of the most inept and useless organizations ever created. They sit around passing resolutions all the time. Most of them condemning this or that, and none of them ever really getting enforced. I dont sweat it.
People have finally realized that gun control didn't work. Most of the country has changed on gun ownership. I grew up in Illinois and the majority are for CCW now. In the 80s people were happy with the gun laws. It didnt work so people have wised up.The only reason CCW hasnt passed yet is Chicago politicians, and the governor. They had enough votes to pass it last year but not enough to be veto proof all they need is 5 more and they can tell Chicago and the Gov to stuff it. So if a state like Illinois has come around, no way Americans let the UN write gun laws for them.
that the UN, attempting to do anything that it is supposed to do, is inept and irrelevant. They have no power other than what is granted to them by the countries, including our own, that fund the lunacy that the UN perpetrates
But that isn't the point with this treaty. Yes, the UN will draw it up and publish it but it is up to the countries that sign it to police it. The news report this morning said that it would be signed today. When Hillary Clinton signs it, it will become a means toward the end that she, President Obama and a host of other government officials share to get rid of guns in the US. How well that strategy works depends on the political climate and what they can get away with. Obviously, if the President isn't re-elected, the chances of it working are diminished. Notice that I didn't say that they disappear.
I realize that he is just a kook, using his own media to spread his message but he must think that the message will have a chance of success or he won't do it.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-2 ... mberg.html
More than 700 mayors, from both political parties, have joined together to stop the flow of illegal guns into our communities. Mayors know all too well that the debate on the Second Amendment is over. The Supreme Court recognized that the Second Amendment grants citizens the right to bear arms, subject to reasonable restrictions. The question is: What should those restrictions look like?
When you couple that with the UN treaty that gives at least somewhat of an air of legitimacy to gun bans and confiscation, particularly if the Supreme Court get stacked with more Liberal Justices in a second Obama term, the outlook will not be good. We know what level of restrictions that Mayor Bloomberg has imposed on the citizens of NYC. For me, it is the whole climate of the anti-gun groups, not just the UN treaty itself, that is worrisome.
The people not wanting gun control will not matter. Most of the people didn't want Obamacare either and look how that turned out.
<-See? My hat's black, not shiny and silvery.
