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Jim McDermott, José Serrano, Al Green, John Conyers and Maxine Waterswere some of the representatives who introduced the bill. That alone should raise red flags.
The phrases that bother me the mostare: "and the overwhelming presence of handguns" and "make policy recommendations to the Attorney General regarding civil rights" in the bill.
That gives you an idea what the mindset of the bill's sponsors is.
Furthermore, the bill is rife with phrases including the words "tolerance" and "diversity" from not only an ethnic, but a social and economic standpoint.
To make matters worse, the bill creates an office of Human Rights and Economic Rights, the head of which will be the Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Economic Rights and shall carry out those functions in the Depertment supporting the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights passed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948.
The icing on the cake is theproposed formation of an Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Peace and Non-Violence. (It's like the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, only this time the issue is violence, not global warming.)
Although the bill doesn't come right out and say it, it's fairly clear that the representatives introducing the bill want to embrace the UN's policy on small arms restriction and trade along with all of the other UN strategies to reduce violence.
I doubt it will go anywhere in the House.
