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DEROS72 wrote:
OOOOH ...Aaaaaah .yeah thats really nice but wake up guys befor you don't have it anymore..
[size=[url=http://www.facebook.com/n/?profile.php&id=1792758384&mid=23f007cG216f8010G593f02fG0&n_m=jhartman@cableone.net]Julie Anderson][/url]April 25, 2010 at 10:06pm
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[size=On Wednesday, Obama] took the first major step in a plan to ban all firearms in the United States. The Obama administration intends to force gun control and a complete ban on all weapons for US citizens through the signing of international treaties with foreign nations. By signing international treaties on gun control (Arms Trades Treaty Resolution and U.N. Small Arms Treaty), the Obama administration can use the US State Department to bypass the normal legislative process in Congress (Article ll, Section 2, Clause 2, U.S. Constitution). Once the US Government signs these international treaties, all US citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments.
I posted this over at CalGuns when someone posted the exact same chain email.
Hasn't anyone ever told you to not forward chain mail to forums, especially since it's all verifiably false?
It is a joke and a false warning. First off, do you understand that under our constitution, in order for any TREATY to be ratified, it needs the vote of 67 US Senators? We just got the US Senate by a vote of 67 or so votes to strike down the National Park Service gun ban, 68 or so votes for stripping Amtrak of the ability to ban guns in checked luggage, and 58 votes in order to get into law an enforcement of Article 4 of our constitution to force states to recognize each others carry licenses? What you're talking about is nearly completely impossible under any conceivable political circumstance.
The treaty clause to Article II of our constitution:
[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur....
Second, you need to read up on a case called
Reid v. Covert.
According to the decision, "this Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty," although the case itself was with regard to an executive agreement and the treaty has never been ruled unconstitutional.
There is no debate to be had, this issue has already been settled so clearly by SCOTUS. Constitution>Treaty>Statutory Law>Regulation. Got that?
For the love of the gods, people, stop forwarding chain mail and EDUCATE YOURSELVES. Every time a gun owner forwards this kind of crap,
they give a black eye to all gun owners in that they make all of us look like uneducated fools.
