Media Matters reports The right-leaning Heritage Foundation has thrown cold water on the revival a conspiracy theory pushed on Fox News by contributor Dick Morris and the National Rifle Association that the United Nation's Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is actually a sinister Obama administration plot to eliminate the right of private individuals to own a firearm.The gullibility of the gun-rights folks is really funny. When Wayne tells them to be afraid, or to be outraged, they obey blindly. They love to perceive themselves as victims fighting to the death against overwhelming odds. I've named this phenomenon grandiose victimism.
During a Heritage Blogger Briefing, senior research fellow Ted Bromund stated, "I don't think that the ATT is a gun confiscation measure for a variety of reasons. First, because I don't regard that as within the bounds of possibility in the United States and secondly, because that is not what the text says."
Bromund's assessment is correct. The stated goal of the treaty is to regulate the international trade of firearms in order to prevent the diversion of arms to human rights abusers, and the most recent version of the treaty's text expressly prohibits the regulation of firearm ownership within sovereign nations.
The preamble of the July 26 treaty draft clearly "reaffirm[s] the sovereign right and responsibility of any State to regulate and control transfers of conventional arms that take place exclusively within its territory, pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system." Furthermore, the Department of State has stated that it will oppose any treaty that contains "restrictions on civilian possession or trade of firearms otherwise permitted by law or protected by the U.S. Constitution."
What's your opinion? Will the pronouncement of the Heritage Foundation ease their troubled minds? I doubt it.
Please leave a comment.
posted on 13 October at 21:13
"The preamble of the July 26 treaty draft clearly "reaffirm[s] the sovereign right "
WRONG, ya simple minded mental defective. The PREAMBLE IS NOT LEGALLY BINDING, FOOL ! THAT is why we wanted it IN PRINT WITHIN THE TEXT OF THE ATT ITSELF, MORON! The PREAMBLE DOESNT MEAN SHIT !
Get a damned clue, jackwit.
posted on 13 October at 21:12
" They love to perceive themselves as victims fighting to the death against overwhelming odds. I've named this phenomenon grandiose victimism."
yeah, jackass....and the SAME logic applies to whimpering homosexuals, lesbians and baby killing abortionists.
posted on 13 October at 21:10
Hilarious. The CRIMINALS who run guns to CRIMINAL governments will STILL keep doing so with or without this treaty. The ONLY ones affected by the UN ATT are those who ALREADY DOING the right thing to begin with. Criminals NEVER OBEY THE LAW...NEVER DO THE RIGHT THING....so you are an IDIOT if you think that this treaty affects ANYONE but those who ALREADY ARE doing the right thing, ya Brady dopes.
This treaty, as far as this nation and many others go, IS an attempt to control ALL guns INCLUDING small arms owned by U.S. Citizens....END OF DISCUSSION. It doesnt matter what some anti gun moron on paperblog.com wants to believe....not in the least.