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If the United Nations consulted their own research, they wouldn’t be promoting their global civilian disarmament agenda. Recently, the United Nations took the next step in negotiating an international arms trade treaty that has the full support of the Obama administration. The goal of this treaty is to impose “common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms” and ammunition, ostensibly because “too many arms still end up in the wrong hands.”This high-sounding rhetoric demands further examination, especially since the UN group behind this meeting is called the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. Since the mid-1990s,...

Medicine contracts a deadly disease Thursday, April 18, 2002 Craige McMillan Ultimately, liberalism destroys everything it touches. The disease's carriers, however, go on and on, infecting innocent bystanders and even entire institutions with a dread disease without so much as a single pang of conscience. The latest casualty is medicine. In their efforts to save an increasingly violent segment of society from itself – a favorite leftist pastime – liberals have enlisted the aid of epidemiology, a branch of medicine that studies how and why large numbers of people die. Now, the Journal of Trauma (February 2002), a peer-reviewed publication,...

Dangerous Explosives Background Checks Requirement Act (Introduced in the Senate) S 2089 IS 107th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2089To combat criminal misuse of explosives. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 11, 2002 Mr. TORRICELLI introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILLTo combat criminal misuse of explosives. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the `Dangerous Explosives Background Checks Requirement Act'. SEC. 2. PERMITS AND BACKGROUND...

Lawmakers rally against gun violence: State Sen. Cheryl Jacques leads group, pushes for legislation By Michael Kunzelman BOSTON - Lawmakers and gun-control advocates from across New England, including the MetroWest region, gathered at the State House yesterday to share strategies for curbing gun violence. The group, led by state Sen. Cheryl Jacques, D-Needham, announced the formation of a new regional partnership aimed at preventing criminals from crossing state lines to illegally obtain weapons. "The reality is that in our small region guns know no borders," Jacques said. "We cannot pretend that if we are successful in limiting illegal access to...