Obama To Sign Anti-Second Amendment U.N. Anti-Gun Treaty

Investors Business Daily ^ | 7-9-2012 | Investors Business Daily

[no-llmd]

The United Nations is putting the finishing touches on an Arms Trade Treaty that transcends borders and may even trample our Constitutional right to bear arms. Every indication is that the president will sign it.

Like the New Start and Law of the Sea treaties before it, as well as the Kyoto Protocol and Agenda 21, the Arms Trade Treaty being finalized at the U.N. this month is one of those feel-good, can't-we-all-get-along pieces of parchment whose net effect is to accomplish little except to eat away at American sovereignty and freedom.

[okie01]

All the Dems need is 34 votes for it if the Dems sneak an unexpected vote in with a bare quorum in attendence some unexpected time when the GOP isn't paying attention - which is most of the time. All they need is a quorum (50+1) on the floor and a quick vote (even a voice vote might do).

Not so. To ratify a treaty, the Constitution requires 2/3 approval by the full Senate -- i.e., 67 votes.

[combat_boots]

Eligibility counts.

[DTogo]

In the event of a “gun grab” and subsequent civil war, there will not be adequate resources in Mordor to enforce martial law.

[Hotlanta Mike]

[ctdonath2]

I don’t give a...

Take a look at your collection. H&K? Glock? Sig? FN? Taurus? Steyr? ...? all foreign. Ditto a lot of what you feed them: Wolf? surplus?

Methinks they're willing to put up with the "FMCDH!" holdouts, so long as they can't restock, repair, or resupply. War of attrition.

[353FMG]

For congresscritters NOT to impeach 0 should be considered an act of treason.

[Breto]

The republicans are gifting this to Obama... A Marxist is a marxist and anti american actions are normal..What the republicans are doing i treason because they pretend to be the party that upholds liberty...

[353FMG]

>Ah, the UN...you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany.<

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This is the same UN that is totally quiet about the well-armed Swiss and Yemeni.

For purely political reasons, the UN is singling out the US because this anti-American organization knows damn well who is in the WH. They should have tried that sh*t with Reagan.

Defund the bastards.

[left that other site]

I hear you and concur.

[spacejunkie2001]

I believe the language is ‘2/3 of those present’ though...

[jimbobfoster]

The only positive thing I can see regarding cut off of foreign supplies is that it may stimulate production at a local level in the free states.

[a fool in paradise]

This from a President who is covering up his own authorized illegal gun sales to narcoterrorists.

Lying Marxist BASTARD manchild.

[RandallFlagg]

[Jeff Chandler]

Yep. 2/3 those present.

[Eleutheria5]

I believe treaties must be ratified by a 2/3 majority in the Senate. Obama can sign ‘til his head falls off, and it still is not a binding treaty.

[Winstons Julia]

Just as the world’s worst human rights violators sat on and often chaired the U.N. Human Rights Council, Iran, arms supplier extraordinaire to America’s enemies, was elected on Saturday to a top position on the United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty being held in New York. It began July 2 and extends through July 27.

This came right after the same U.N. found Iran guilty of illegally transferring guns and bombs to the murderous Syrian regime of Bashar Assad, currently slaughtering thousands of its own citizens as an impotent U.N. joins the U.S. administration in standing around and watching.

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Oh UN. You so fun .... I mean, scary.

[freedomtrail]

You nailed it.

[OneWingedShark]

All treaties must be approved by the Senate with a 60% super majority vote or the treaties are meaningless, just like the Kyoto treaty which Bill Clinton signed.

The Constitution says 2/3rds of senators present.

[sarge83]

He will sign and the senate will not sign off on the treaty.
When that happens king barack will by executive order
tell the ATF to begin enforcing the terms of the treaty
regardless of congress and the congress will bluster and
rant and do NOTHING.

[sarge83]

He will sign and the senate will not sign off on the treaty.
When that happens king barack will by executive order
tell the ATF to begin enforcing the terms of the treaty
regardless of congress and the congress will bluster and
rant and do NOTHING.