More on the UN gun summit
Kim has more. Initially, the UN apologists were stating this had nothing to do with Americans owning guns and this was about illegal trafficking of small arms (which they implied meant rockets and such). As report after report has indicated, those apologists were absolutely wrong.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:48 am
Report after report of people with their “Good Golly Gungrabbers!” filter on. Please.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:50 am
Metulj, Try a websearch. or clicking a link. please.
June 30th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
I really don’t understand the defensiveness of people about this summit. The people at the summit can say or do whatever they want, Americans ultimately have the right to determine their own fate with regards to gun ownership. Also, as I’ve noted before, each country will have its own optimum policy on guns that will be different from other countries.
June 30th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Manish, because it only takes an administration who is friendly to this sort of thing to pursue it.
June 30th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
I agree with Uncle.
Bill Clinton and Al Gore decided, God bless them, in January or February of 2000 that Gore would fare well by pushing a gun control agenda.
Then S & W entered into the pact with HUD (I believe) and the outcry of gun owners was thunderous.
Gore really blew it, because he was correctly perceived as anti-gun in several states where hunting is very populare (Tn and Ohio).
All it takes is a Kerry or another Clinton administration to start cutting deals with the UN or some of its committees (remember Clinton signing us onto the International Criminal Court and then whining when Bush “unsigned” us to the awful organization, which would have given the ICC criminal jurisdiction over US military personnel.
Lastly, I agree with Manish that this ridiculous committee has the right to convene, but they are not welcome here and they need to do so in Kofi’s home state of Ghana or some other third world rathole (redundancy alert). Actually, Mexico City would be satisfactory.
I am sure that they will enjoy the shopping and theatre in one of those venues.
We need to hammer on these people, like the NRA is doing, every time they raise their pointed little heads.
June 30th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Manish, because it only takes an administration who is friendly to this sort of thing to pursue it.
If another Administration wants to implement gun control, then thats what they will do. Its independent of what the UN does or does not do. They might try to use the UN process as a reason for doing so, but that doesn’t ultimately change the fact that no administration is going to find it fun to implement any form of meaningful gun control.