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Wayne LaPierre to UN: Americans Will Never Surrender the Second Amendment
Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2012 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 07/11/2012 5:31:27 PM PDT by Kaslin

Today NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre addressed the United Nations as the debate about the Arms Trade Treaty, or the "Small Arms Treaty," continues in New York City. The treaty is written to make it seem as though only arms transferred by governments will be affected but the details of the language seem to show the treaty applies to civilian firearms. The treaty has been classified as an international effort to attack the Second Amendment in the United States Constitution.

"I am hear to announce the NRA's strong opposition to anti-freedom policies that disregard American citizens' right to self defense. No foreign entity has jurisdiction over the freedoms our Founding Fathers guaranteed to us."

Wayne LaPierre Fights for the Second Amendment Before the United Nations


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: armstradetreaty; banglist; nra; uselessnations; waynelapierre
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To: sarge83

Hopefully they won’t. They are outnumbered. Everyone will just lay low and hide their guns.


41 posted on 07/12/2012 11:04:58 AM PDT by USAF80
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
also a hesitation I have with CCW...either likely paint a GPS target on your home.

I agree, I have a CCDW, my daughter asked if we could get them together as a present for her birthday.

I have come to the realization that when it gets to the point where they actually come after us CCDW people, they are coming after all of us and I might as well have it out then and go down sooner, because I will surely go down later.

Unless the average person in this country realizes that they are going to come after us piecemeal, starting with those who will generate the least amount of protesting, then it will progress exactly has it always has done with despots, on to all those that are foolish to think they will be excluded from the pogroms. One day they will wake up and discover they are the last to be in the crosshairs and there will be no one to defend them.

42 posted on 07/12/2012 4:40:41 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: W. W. SMITH
Thats an interesting question.

I would suspect that if something like that happened, the "point of no return" would be reached, would it not?...CWII would be on. It would be fight or die.

The outcome of the fight would decide whether the vote was valid or not.

...

43 posted on 07/12/2012 6:13:41 PM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Elections have consequences....)
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To: Carry_Okie
Oh, and I'll bet you think that had no effect at all on the efficacy of the weapons for sale.

No need to get sarcastic, FRiend. I guess I'm just not bitter enough about the NRA to suit you. I disagree with some things they've done in the past, but I'm not looking for a screw job in the bottom of every Cracker Jack box, either.

I looked at it and it looked like a fairly straightforward statement of principles against a broad-front attack on our rights by the international Lords-Ordainer wannabe's. I've been following them for over 10 years and know the UN cabalists have been on this since the "Poppy" Bush Administration, with Japan and the UK leading, and I know the UN told the NRA to go eff off over a dozen years ago with that patronizing crack about "time to apply lessons learnt" -- which btw tells you the speaker was a gun-hating Brit, FWIW. Only the Brits use (correctly) "learnt" as a participial adjective rather than American usage, "learned".

So yeah, I see them coming, and yes, the NRA has been fighting these guys since they erected their "no-guns" UN treehouse with our money, and I see no reason to start looking for an NRA backstab job now on the identical issues, howbeit they really disappointed a couple of years ago by refusing to return support for other groups fighting other gross assaults on the BoR.

44 posted on 07/12/2012 9:59:57 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Carry_Okie
Treaties on the books now so wildly exceed Constitutionally enumerated powers that this point isn't even worth entertaining.

Time for a Republican POTUS and his Republican AG to start taking some of these treaties to SCOTUS and breaking them like the dry sticks that they are. And if SCOTUS won't do it -- well, there's the repealer and demarche route, and Russia and that Murderers' Row of Habitual Rights-Offending States, however self-constituted, can k.m.a.

45 posted on 07/12/2012 10:05:36 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
Time for a Republican POTUS and his Republican AG to start taking some of these treaties to SCOTUS and breaking them like the dry sticks that they are.

It's never been done. Not one.

46 posted on 07/12/2012 10:08:46 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: lentulusgracchus
I disagree with some things they've done in the past, but I'm not looking for a screw job in the bottom of every Cracker Jack box, either.

If you understood the historic origins and scope of the treaty power in the Constitution, you would be.

I looked at it and it looked like a fairly straightforward statement of principles against a broad-front attack on our rights by the international Lords-Ordainer wannabe's.

Sad experience has taught me otherwise.

47 posted on 07/12/2012 10:13:35 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: Mycroft Holmes; M Kehoe
Thank you with the spelling help, and the illustrations.

From Webster online:

Definition of TROCAR :
a sharp-pointed surgical instrument fitted with a cannula and used especially to insert the cannula into a body cavity as a drainage outlet

Variants of TROCAR
tro·car also tro·char \ˈtrō-ˌkär\
Origin of TROCAR
French trocart, alteration of trois-quart from trois three + carre edge

First Known Use: circa 1706

My only source was an autopsy report in my possession. Thanks for the correction.

48 posted on 07/12/2012 10:24:44 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Carry_Okie
It's never been done. Not one.

People said that about a lot of things in American politics. There's a time for everything, and the Alinskyites don't get to say what those times will be.

49 posted on 07/12/2012 10:29:37 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Carry_Okie
[Me] I disagree with some things they've done in the past, but I'm not looking for a screw job in the bottom of every Cracker Jack box, either.

If you understood the historic origins and scope of the treaty power in the Constitution, you would be.

I think I have your drift, and yes, Fedgov has been coloring outside the lines since Webster floated the first iteration of the "Mystical Union" crapola and John Quincy Adams floated the idea of pushing the South into secession, shouting "insurrection", and then using the succeeding military confrontation to "reorganize" the Southern States politically. Which, btw, is the best-kept secret in Civil War history; I didn't know anything about that, until people began trading comments on a passage in the new biography of Adams. Since the Civil War, Fedgov has "gone ape" and needs to be trimmed off and our constitutional damage redressed.

But the NRA isn't the problem here -- it's people like the Pew Trusts, the other assorted Prog-driven NGO's, and the international movable-feast class.

50 posted on 07/12/2012 10:37:08 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
I think I have your drift, and yes, Fedgov has been coloring outside the lines since Webster floated the first iteration of the "Mystical Union" crapola and John Quincy Adams floated the idea of pushing the South into secession, shouting "insurrection", and then using the succeeding military confrontation to "reorganize" the Southern States politically.

Uh, no. It was before the ink was dry on the Constitution. It did involve the treaty power, it was debated, and it was rammed through anyway. Read the article.

51 posted on 07/13/2012 6:19:00 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: Carry_Okie
Read the article.

You've referred me to your own writing as authoritative before. Sorry if I'm slow to buy it.

FReegards anyway.

52 posted on 07/13/2012 3:01:20 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
You've referred me to your own writing as authoritative before. Sorry if I'm slow to buy it.

With regard to my work, Malcolm Wallop bought it, so I guess you are just slow. I guess you'd prefer to let the MSM determine who is a worthy presenter of fact. In that book, I explain at great length and in enormous detail how treaty law plays the key role in this nascent system of global governance.

But never mind my "authority," allow me to quote that same article re Patrick Henry's take on the matter of treaty ratification:

The power of making treaties, by this Constitution, ill-guarded as it is, extended farther than it did in any country in the world. Treaties were to have more force here than in any part of Christendom; for he defied any gentleman to show any thing so extensive in any strong, energetic government in Europe. Treaties rest, says he, on the laws and usages of nations. To say that they are municipal is, to me, a doctrine totally novel. To make them paramount to the Constitution and laws of the states, is unprecedented. I would give them the same force and obligation they have in Great Britain, or any other country in Europe. Gentlemen are going on in a fatal career; but I hope they will stop before they concede this power unguarded and unaltered.

He is referring specifically to the unfortunate (and very clever) punctuation of the supremacy clause.

[snip]

HENRY: I say again that, if you consent to this power, you depend on the justice and equity of those in power. We may be told that we shall find ample refuge in the law of nations. When you yourselves have your necks so low that the President may dispose of your rights as he pleases, the law of nations cannot be applied to relieve you. Sure I am, if treaties are made infringing our liberties, it will be too late to say that our constitutional rights are violated.

Which has already happened to a degree he might never have imagined.

[snip]

The Senate, by making treaties, may destroy your liberty and laws for want of responsibility. Two thirds of those that shall happen to be present, can, with the President, make treaties that shall be the supreme law of the land; they may make the most ruinous treaties; and yet there is no punishment for them.

So you have a choice: Admit that you were wrong in that this did begin well before you realized, or descend to the status of pompous moron. Don't get me started on how Madison was behind the idea that later became our misbegotten 14th Amendment.

53 posted on 07/13/2012 4:02:09 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: Carry_Okie
So you have a choice: ... [what, false dichotomy already? Where's the ad hominem?] .... Admit that you were wrong ....or descend to the status of pompous moron.

Oh, there it is.

Sorry, Blimp Boy, but I don't kiss ass and I don't take schooling from imperious gasbags.

Go back to your writing hobby, you won't get anywhere trying to rank me over. You don't even remotely hold the keys to my self-respect; I am surprised that you would even try a play like that, especially in a forum like this one, where people by and large know their own minds.

Go tell your wife that a terrible thing happened to you yesterday: Somebody disagreed with you! I'm sure she'll sympathize.

54 posted on 07/15/2012 7:03:15 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
Sorry, Blimp Boy, but I don't kiss ass and I don't take schooling from imperious gasbags.

Given that you are immune to facts that render your post a crock, it looks to me like you've got that projector going full blast.

55 posted on 07/15/2012 7:43:39 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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