Posted on 06/19/2006 1:33:26 PM PDT by yoe
BELLEVUE, WA – In what can only be a carefully-timed, deliberate insult to the United States and its Constitution, the United Nations is hosting a conference on global gun control aimed directly at our Second Amendment, on dates that include our national holiday, July 4.
The U.N. Conference on Global Gun Control, scheduled June 24-July 7, poses a direct threat to our constitutionally-protected individual right to keep and bear arms, said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). Gottlieb will attend the conference, but he suggests that this may be an opportune time for Congress and the White House to reconsider this nation’s level of financial support for an international organization that now wants to write a treaty that specifically attacks a cornerstone of our federal constitution, and the lynchpin to our liberty.
“Had it not been for our tradition of private firearms ownership,” Gottlieb stated, “our citizens might still be subjects of the queen. Had it not been for America, all of Europe might be speaking German. Were America not the ‘great arsenal of democracy’ that President Franklin D. Roosevelt described in 1940, the world would be a far different place, and the sanctimonious bureaucrats at the U.N. might instead be working in labor camps.
“Not once, but twice in the past century, American citizens have risen to the challenge and quite literally saved the world,” Gottlieb recalled. “From our heartland have come heroes like Alvin York, Audie Murphy, Joe Foss and others who grew up in a land of freedom and knew what it took to defend that birthright.
“Yet, as we celebrate our 230th anniversary, global anti-gunners, under the guise of reviewing a U.N. program of action on small arms and light weapons, want to create a binding international agreement that could supersede our laws and constitution,” Gottlieb said. “We have done much for the U.N. and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself. And now comes an attack on our constitution, on our national holiday.
“America has always answered the call to help our international friends and neighbors,” Gottlieb observed, “but when our very way of life is attacked, maybe it is time to find more worthy endeavors for our material and financial support.”
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nations oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.
Blue makes such a nice contrasting color for easy target acquisition.
9mm might not penetrate a blue helmet. 7.62x39 FMJ probably will, 5.56X41 FMJ (.223) most likely will, but 7.62x51 (.308) will. Get some, and something that digests it properly. M1A, FN/FAL, G3 or CETME, or AR-10 or AR-25. A good scoped "deer rifle" would be good, especially in the old standard 30-06.
Mos Eisley spaceport: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
These aren't the guns you're looking for...move along.
I think after reading this I'll go buy a gun for Independence Day.
Do you know that the UN Charter was written by traitor Alger Hess, Mulatoff, and Vyshinsky?
They want my guns? Let 'em try and take 'em
Yes, and the security council is just like the Cantina Scene.
Arsenal of Democracy. **CK Yeah.
"so they can look at their failures each and every day."
Problem is, some of them consider those mass graves as successes, or at worst a minor casualty on their desired roadmap to world subjugation under UN rule. Our continued funding makes us complicit.
Or the monumental success that they had in keeping nukes out of the hands of Iran and NoKo.
Kofi can have my gun. Bullets first, of course!
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