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ACTION ALERT UN ARMS TRADE TREATY
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 23, 2012 at 2:19pm
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Leanne,
Could there be a separate "Blog" space (tab on home page?) designated for candidate 'research' articles so each and every blog is not inundated with the bloggers desire to sway the votes?
Is is not the stand of the TP to NOT endorse candidates? Someone needs to be sure that line is not crossed?? Not sure how you do that...
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Ken, at no point did I advocate the government taking your guns.
The answer to your "why" question, in my opinion is the massacre and killings you mentioned took place because the shooter decided to kill with his gun. Same as Aurora. Gun control did not kill these people. Are you advocating we send our 'kids' to camp armed? That is what Norway would have needed... Do you want to send our kids into the public schools armed?
My point, and I thought it was clear but I apologize if not, was this: We have the right to have a gun. We don't have a God given right to murder people. Why not place the blame where it belongs--with the SOB murderer, killer, gun wielding personifiation of evil.. We can try to convice ourselves that it wouldn't have happened if the theaters allowed weapons.. but who is to ever know.
The Syrians are engaged in a civil war - the uprising has weapons as does the government. The uprising wants to overthrow the government, just at they did in Libya. But Obama can't get into another war... Some would say what is happening in Syria is what many want to happen here to change the way DC is doing work. There are some who I believe would be happy to have civil war break out in the USA so they can go out and start shooting... my opinion, only.
We live in a violent world because we have become desensitized to violence - movies, music, video games... from a very young age. I know how to shoot a gun. I choose not to.
My point to the gangs, which I guess you missed is the question "Where is the media, Obama, the outrage, the non-stop tv coverage?? The balance is skewed, because the media/public either doesn't care about the inner city black kids, or they don't want to discuss the open black on black crime, and it simply doesn't play as well as the next "New Alert" or "Breaking Now" event. Either way it is happening and the average person and news reporter doesn't seem to care.
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Comment by Leanne King on July 23, 2012 at 12:50pm
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When was that Roma?
We are putting it out on the web, it is not filtered and can be accessed by all members who want it.
I have no problem with it going up as blogs once posted to the web.
No need to travel to office, done from home, submitted to Candidate Research Leader. He has all templates, names, etc. etc.
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If you all want to do some candidate research for the Tea Party it would be greatly appreciated. We need to have this important information ready and loaded to the web site soon and there is lots left to do.
I can see a real contribution with your help.. Let me know and I will direct you to the right person.
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Also, Joshua, we have the "right" to own a gun, but we also have the freedom to choose if we want to own a gun, and important and sometimes ignored part of the discussion. People choose not to own a weapon for many reasons, and that should be respected, not criticized or thought of as being uneducated, nor interpreted as anti-gun/2nd Amd.
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Joshua, thank you for a very thoughtful and poignant response to the subject. What, indeed, would have become of all the lost souls? The artwork not painted, the scientific discoveries, the music scores, the books not written.
During 2012 so far there have been 250 homicides in the Chicago area alone. 250.. What might have become of those men and women who have died as well? When is this country going to begin to change this culture of accepted violence? In one weekend (in I think March), there were 10 people killed - where was the non-stop coverage? Where were the newsreaders? The Pres? No where to be found..
The Constitution allows us to have guns and we need to work to keep that in place. But a higher law, more powerful than the Constitution provides us with the direction we all need - thou shalt not kill. The Swiss are peaceful, orderly and controlled. The US acts like it is the days of the wild wild west. What we need is not "gun control" - we need control of the gun usage... by each individual who owns one.
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