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Gun Control Reform Activism

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patrice

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Fri Mar 22, 2013, 04:16 PM Mar 2013

World Gun Sovereigns will continue to seek to paralyze U.N. arms control treaties [View all]

Last edited Sat Mar 23, 2013, 02:21 PM - Edit history (1)

As with so much else that Republican Right wingers and Libertarians do, the truth or falsehood of any U.N. treaty is not the point of their activity on this subject. The point of their NRA corporate personhood activities on behalf of INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ARMS MARKETS, and hence, PRIVATE WAR PROFITEERING is much more likely the result of things like Mali's gold resources than it is the result of Republican respect for human rights and freedom at home and abroad.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/22/488063/two-gop-congressmen-propose-real-bill-to-fight-fake-united-nations-guns-treaty/

For at least the last two years, far right groups have opposed an imaginary treaty which, in the words of the John Birch Society, would “cede control of private Americans’ small arms ownership and use to the United Nations.” This treaty does not exist. Snopes described reports of such a treaty as “scarelore.” ThinkProgress debunked Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) attempt to fundraise off this imaginary treaty more than a year ago. PolitiFact rejected claims that any UN treaty will limit Second Amendment rights as recently as last week.


I think anyone who wants to change how the U.S. came to make war on an INNOCENT nation like Iraq, should consider the possibility of how that whole false scenario can be repeated with the help of legislation like S. 2205 The Second Amendment Sovereignty Act of 2012, which remains in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s2205

& http://www.petition2congress.com/8200/keep-obama-from-giving-un-authority-over-arms/

under the protection and sponsorship of Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas, where it only needs a revival of Republican control of the Senate, through the agency of NRA Gun Sovereigns, to be reborn as new legislation that will sow more seeds of un-ending war for all generations to come:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-10/calderon-blames-violence-on-end-of-u-s-gun-ban.html#.UUnkYVXvDkI.facebook

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/military-police-and-arms/arms-trade
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