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As we face the prospect that Hillary Clinton will sign the Arms Trade Treaty, establishing first-ever UN gun controls, those of us who believe in the Second Amendment need to gear up for a tough battle this fall.
But there is a good prospect of victory.
We have to realize that once the ink is dry on Hillary's signature, there are only two ways to beat the Treaty and its threat of UN imposed gun control - take back the Senate or beat Obama.
The fact that the NRA has succeeded in getting fifty-eight Senators to sign on opposing the Treaty is irrelevant. If Harry Reid won't bring it up on the floor, it won't get a vote. And, in the absence of Senate disapproval or a renunciation by the president, the United States is bound by the Treaty under the provisions of the Vienna Convention which we have both signed and ratified.
Nor will the Second Amendment offer us any protection. The Supremacy Clause in our own Constitution provides that treaties are the "law of the land" akin to a constitutional provision.
The answer is to beat Obama and give the Republicans a majority in the Senate. Either will suffice to kill the Treaty. A Republican majority leader would certainly bring the Treaty up for a vote and it would certainly be defeated, ending its power over the U.S. and a President Romney will doubtless renounce the Treaty on taking office.
Voting for anti-gun control Democratic candidates for Senate won't work. Their leader would refuse to bring the Treaty up for a vote, regardless of how his members felt.
We know that Obama is frightened to death of the gun issue. While he said, famously, that bitter people "cling to their religion and their guns," in the 2008 election, he hasn't touched the issue since. In his avalanche of liberal proposals concerning spending, taxes, health care, labor relations, the environment, and energy, he has proposed no added gun controls.
So we need to realize that this Treaty is a declaration of war against the Second Amendment and we need to step up and battle. We have got to make gun control the issue that tips swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, and Colorado into the Republican column on Election Day. Now there is no way to save our right to bear arms other than to win the election.
(Credits for the above to Dick Morris.)
I have read many articles related to the Arms Treaty and and decided to keep it simple. The most important thing that we can do is to send our respective messages in opposing of the signing
CLICK THE LINK BELOW
http://dickmorris.rallycongress.com/7175/gun-control/
to sign the petition to stop the US from signing the Arms Trade Treaty!
Senate ratifies treaties. Congress holds the purse strings. Senate can stop the treaty; Congress can refuse to fund it.
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Breitbart puts it this way:
It's widely known that the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), being negotiated as I type, is simply gun control by another name. Although it is being sold as a treaty to lessen the number of guns moving across borders illegally, it will ultimately require a national gun registry to be enforceable: perhaps even an international gun registry.
And while all of us should be contacting our Senators to demand they refuse to ratify this ridiculous treaty when it comes before them, it behooves us also to remind them (and ourselves) that the 2nd Amendment transcends any U.N. treaty at any time and any place in this country.
Our Founding Fathers recognized that part of our birthright as humans in general, but Americans in particular, is the possession of natural rights that cannot be controlled, denied, or otherwise constricted by a man-made government. They took pains to communicate this to us via the Bill of Rights, in which one of the rights they explicitly listed was the right to keep and bear arms.
According to the Founders, the right not only to keep arms but also to bear the arms we keep, "shall not be infringed." Moreover, they held that this right, above and beyond all others, is "necessary to the security of a free state."
Because this right transcends man-made governments, even the U.S. government, it most certainly transcends any treaty the U.N. can produce. This fact needs to pervade our psyches, as we need to be confident in the knowledge of the rights that are ours by birth.
The 2nd Amendment "shall not be infringed."
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/21/The-2nd-Amendmen...
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Comment by Lizzie on July 24, 2012 at 6:00pm
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Billy wrote: ".....Example: PUBLIX Grocery Store...dumb look.. I would bet you a nickle to a donut that the bag boy was so stupid..." etc..
Wonder if Publix, one of the bigger employers around here, would like the reference that their employees are dumb or "so stupid"..
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Billy, as you saying all the employees at Publix are not smart?
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the point: the majority of teachers are busy defending their union contracts, their tenure in spite of lack of ability, enjoying their excessive amount of time off and their taxpayer funded government jobs and taxpayer funded pensions (which is bankrupting towns, cities and counties).... instead of teaching.
switching to the oh, we need smaller class sizes argument is bulls***. Teachers and their unions are bleeding towns and cities dry with their pay and pensions... like all the rest of big government jobs and pensions.. and those same teachers & unions fight relentlessly to limit charter schools...
THAT IS MY POINT.
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Good attempt at deflecting the point Roma, yet still, the majority of teachers are busy defending their union contracts, their tenure in spite of lack of ability, enjoying their excessive amount of time off and their taxpayer funded government jobs and taxpayer funded pensions (which is bankrupting towns, cities and counties).... instead of teaching.
Class sizes have decreased for decades yet teachers still complain, especially now that they are being held accountable with testing...
So, someone who proclaims to desire smaller government is a government employee ? Teachers Union/NEA member? curious..
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Comment by Billy Bowlegs on July 24, 2012 at 11:12am
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Free:
A gun is a piece of steel if it is unloaded.
Keep loaded guns locked away from little kids.
Teach your kids how dangerous a gun is at about 6 or 7 years of age.
Never point gun at anyone.
Only point a loaded gun at your enemy.
If the enemy comes on stronger, pull the trigger.
Be Safe.
Save your life
Own a gun.
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I have been trying to tell everyone for thirty years about the DUMB DOWN efforts.
Example: PUBLIX Grocery Store, ask the stock person putting milk in the cooler to post a picture of a SOY COW so you can tell where the SOY MILK Products come from.
Answers Like: Never been on a farm in my life and have never seen a cow.
Wouldn't know one if i saw it.
Checkout: Bag Boy flirting with Clerk: We approach. Clerk: Did you find everything OK. A: No, the picture of the Soy Cow is missing near the cooler. Bag Boy: Dumb look. Clerk: Oh, I will have to get the photographer back out in the field at midnight to get another picture. BBoy: More dumb looks.
A: Oh, you know all about the space craft bringing down the Soy Cows at midnight so they can give milk to put in the cooler. BBoy: Really dumb looks.
Clerk: Yes, they are only down for 30 minutes to be milked.
About this time she finishes ringing up the groceries.
I would bet you a nickle to a donut that the bag boy was so stupid that the pretty girl would not even give him the time of day after that interchange.
And, he had no idea of what had transpired in one to two minutes.
HIS DUMB DOWN look gave the answer.
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Fox AM News
Gun Sales UP 40% after Aurora Shooting.
Gun Sales Up is good news.
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Majority of teachers are busy defending their union contracts, their tenure in spite of lack of ability, enjoying their excessive amount of time off and their taxpayer funded government jobs and taxpayer funded pensions.. instead of teaching.
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Roma, do/did you teach in the school system?
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Comment by Leanne King on July 23, 2012 at 9:36pm
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Having just reviewed the Senate candidate information I would say it is all about their views on certain issues, education, taxes, etc. etc. and followed by their voting records on related issues. That is a start. Lots of facts, Points of view, feelings, opinions can not be part of this. People really do not want to read what someone else thinks. Ihey want to see what a candidate says they stand for and see their actual voting record.
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