>/center> Posted on 11/27/2010 6:08:09 AM PST by marktwain
Scottsdale, AZ --(Ammoland.com)- We American gun-owners need to become more familiar with the process of “norming.”
The “norm” of civilian disarmament already surrounds our country and has the potential to nullify our Second Amendment right. When global firearm-prohibitionists speak about “norming,” they are actually discussing the process wherein society becomes increasingly hostile to the possession of arms in the hands of civilians.
This standard, or ‘norm,’ was deliberately created during several decades of lies about the safety and use of firearms, their benefits to society, and the kind of people who possess them.
And yet, we gun-owners remain unaware of its ramifications and its dangers.
During the creation of this norm, we have seen the prohibitionists lie time and time again, magnifying the costs to society of private firearm ownership, minimizing their benefits, and creating widespread fear in the process. We know we’re on the side of truth because we don’t need to manipulate the facts to fit our philosophy, as do the prohibitionists. In two decades of firearms research and experience, we have never seen a deliberate attempt by unbiased firearm researchers to obfuscate data.
The more people who accept the norm, the stronger the norm becomes.
Owen Greene of Saferworld, an anti-gun non-governmental organization (NGO), elaborated: “It is generally agreed that controls on possession by civilians of Small Arms and Light Weapons [SALW, an ambiguous group of weapons that includes ordinary firearms] are a critical element of national controls to prevent, combat, and reduce SALW trafficking, proliferation and misuse.”
Greene is secure in the knowledge that this norm already has extremely vigorous and widespread global support.
The new norm does not allow for self-defense, as government intends to provide that service for us. Even if one might actually comply with strict regulations and even if one might actually be permitted to keep his/her sporting gun at home, instead of being locked up at the local range, these guns will never be available for emergency use.
One of the most damning ramifications of the new norm is that those few remaining gun-owners will be looked upon with disdain.
This is the norm that is presently being codified into a global legally-binding Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that will encompass all conventional weapons.
It might be possible for our laws to be changed because of this treaty, even without a Presidential signature, or Senate ratification. The ATT is set to become the global norm, and the global firearm-prohibitionists would only need to wait for an opportune time to act. We expect that 175 of the approximately 200 nations in today’s world would sign onto the ATT. Although many of these nations will sign with no expectation of complying with its provisions, this will not affect the strength of the norm.
According to attorney Joseph Bruce Alonzo, “gun control laws could affect United States parties in the event that gun control becomes a customary international law [i.e. becomes a norm]…. Non consensual customary international law may arise as a result of international practice. This international practice may be evidenced by events not approved by the United States but eventually held binding on the United States.”
That’s how this norm, or soft law, has the potential to trump the Second Amendment.
John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, recognized the norming process, and rejected it as being destructive to our Constitution.
Expressing his displeasure, he wrote: “Much of the development of norming comes as a result of people who are dissatisfied with political outcomes they have achieved at the state and federal level and who are determined to take their argument into the broader international context, who see the norming process as the way to constrain the United States.”
There is another norm—our norm—which was bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers.
Ed Laurence of the Monterey Institute of International Studies complained : “An opposing norm that favors continued high levels of arms sales—based on the belief that citizens have the “right” to buy guns for self-defense, self-determination, entertainment, or to provide for their families—is preventing the development of a global consensus on small arms policy.”
We are the last remaining hope for the sovereignty of individuals and the civilian possession of firearms.
U.S. civilians own about 270 million firearms, about 30% of the total global stockpile of 875 million firearms. But we estimate that only about 5 million people, out of approximately 70-80 million American gun-owners, have joined in one or more activist groups that have been formed to protect our right to private firearm ownership.
This simply is not enough. We must get gun-owners out of the closet and actively working hard with us.
How undamaged we and our rights emerge from this United Nations firestorm, that will engulf us for the next 5-10 years, depends upon how willing we all are to accept our responsibilities today.
We’ve headed in that direction since the birth of our nation.
Americans own only 270 million firearms?
We’re slackers.....we need to pick up the pace!
5.56mm
I could do that, but that means I'd have to buy it myself.
Worse things could happen.
Well...With all this discussion about “normal” izing our views on personal freedoms and the RKBA’s once again under attack...
I’m going to change my name to Abby...Abby Normal...
Some would say I am already there...;-)
One man’s “normal” is another man’s “abnormal”. I think it quite abnormal not to own as many guns and as much ammo as is possible for you to own.
Thanks for the ping, I am going to show this to Mr Ditter he is the keeper (and buyer) of the guns.
We need to push back hard on all the aspects of liberal intrusion into our freedoms, not just RKBA. The UN has to go, the ability of government to destroy our rights by fiat must be eliminated, and most importantly, the indoctrination of youth into politically correct, non-thinking liberal useful idiots must be stopped. Slowing it down is not enough.
You could be in trouble. Is Santa a licensed gun dealer?
Another Bolshevik gift to the world from Vladimir Lenin...
>/center> I’m a lucky man. My wife loves it when I buy a gun.
Last time I checked he had his FFL, although with the current administration's justice department, and BATF who knows?
5.56mm
5.56mm
You made me laugh again!
Details below.
Concerned about the easy availability of guns in our society?
Are you as alarmed as the United Nations and some within our own government about the "gun nuts" and other freedom wackos allowed to run loose?
Wish the government would just repeal the Second Amendment and confiscate all the guns because you believe sensible people shouldn't suffer because of some idiotic notion about some antiquated “right?”
While we can't take the guns away from the people, we CAN take the people (or at least SOME of them) away from their guns.
Nazi Germany Weapons Law (1938) §1: "Jews are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority."
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>>But we estimate that only about 5 million people, out of approximately 70-80 million American gun-owners, have joined in one or more activist groups that have been formed to protect our right to private firearm ownership.
This simply is not enough. We must get gun-owners out of the closet and actively working hard with us.<<
Sorry, but I don’t join activist groups. I make contribution anonymously to them. My name is on enough lists as it is.
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