Global gun control
I’ve mentioned this push before but the NRA is now circling the wagons for the coming UN driven arms control hooey:
An American delegation will participate in a controversial United Nations small-arms conference criticized by Second Amendment advocates as a threat to U.S. gun ownership.
The U.N. Small Arms Review Conference will meet in New York City June 26 to July 7 to discuss illegal trafficking in arms, “ineffective national controls” and related issues.
The U.N.’s disarmament effort features a program in which it buys back weapons in nations torn by civil strife. But National Rifle Association Vice President Wayne LaPierre insists the U.N. is concerned about more than illicit arms in African hot spots. He says the global body wants the firearms of American citizens and much more.
It’s coming.
June 19th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
Another interesting read on UN Gun Control:
http://economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6980071
Looks like the media is jumping on for this ride š
June 19th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Ugh. It has no bearing on the United States. The UN is not coming for our guns. It’s a program to stop the proliferation of small-arms to places like Cote D’Ivoire and Liberia. It is a stretch of epic proportions to extend a program meant to stop nasty, decades long conflicts, often fought by children, to a global world wide gun ban.
“DUKU PAUL does not know how many people he has killed. Though still young, he is a veteran of one of West Africa’s nastiest civil wars. For more than a decade, he helped to burn, loot and bloody his homeland, Liberia. Then, in 2003, the United Nations, with American backing, brought peace. Bangladeshi blue helmets took Mr Paul’s gun and gave him $300. Interviewed last year, he said he was sorry that he ever became a soldier, and that he wanted to get back to school.”
We are not talking about someone protecting his house from a burglar here. The rest of the Economist article is written, like so much of the conservative Economist’s writings on the American Right, with a big old roll of the eyes. I have yet to see one piece of a American law that has been written anywhere else other than in Congress.