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Euromutt wrote:
Read the
"Millennium Goals" resolution again. Pay particular attention to item 9:
To take concerted action to end illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons, especially by making arms transfers more transparent and supporting regional disarmament measures, taking account of all the recommendations of the forthcoming United Nations Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons.
Italics mine.
This is about trying to stop sales of arms to terrorists, drug cartels, and the like. How many of those types of organizations get their weaponry from the US? More like from the former Soviet Union, Serbia, China, Iran, Pakistan, etc. Why would any UN member state want to ban private firearms ownership in the US? Who else are they going to sell their AK-clones and surplus SKSs and Garands to?
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This is from another bullet point. The bullet point I quoted was about all guns.
The biggest thing holding the UN back right now is our guns and does not mention illicit trade..
They can't outright come and take our guns so we see all the maneuvering over decades.
I don't trust the NRA anymore but check this article out from 2006.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50671
NRA warns of U.N. gun control
U.S. participating in upcoming small-arms conference
Posted: June 16, 2006
1:00 am Eastern
Wayne LaPierre (NRA) An American delegation will participate in a controversial United Nations small-arms conference criticized by Second Amendment advocates as a threat to U.S. gun ownership.
The U.N. Small Arms Review Conference will meet in New York City June 26 to July 7 to discuss illegal trafficking in arms, "ineffective national controls" and related issues.
The U.N.'s disarmament effort features a program in which it buys back weapons in nations torn by civil strife. But National Rifle Association Vice President Wayne LaPierre insists the U.N. is concerned about more than illicit arms in African hot spots. He says the global body wants the firearms of American citizens and much more.
"So, after we are disarmed, the U.N. wants us demobilized and reintegrated," says the NRA's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, according to the Economist magazine. "I can hear it now: 'Step right this way for your reprogramming, sir. Once we confiscate your guns, we can demobilize your aggressive instincts and reintegrate you into civil society.' No thanks."
LaPierre sees the U.N. as a club of governments, some of which want to "strip opposition forces of the means to challenge their authority."
Noting that during the 20th century, governments murdered 169 million people in various parts of the world, the NRA leader says individual gun ownership is the "ultimate protection against tyranny."
Although an effort by the U.N. to control Americans' guns seems far-fetched and improbable to some, as WorldNetDaily has reported in a major investigation, that plan has its roots in the early 1960s with a 20-page State Department pamphlet titled "Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World."
LaPierre, in his book "The Global War on Your Guns: Inside the UN Plan to Destroy the Bill of Rights," claims a 1997 land-mine treaty molded the U.N.'s new anti-gun strategy; that the U.N. funnels Americans' tax dollars to anti-gun member nations; that U.S. gun-control advocates are investing in the U.N.'s activities; and that even the most extreme U.N. gun laws can be enforced on Americans, without the benefit of a new treaty.
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