We’ve been hearing about the UN Arms Treaty for quite some time now. Well today, the United Nations General Assembly voted 154-3 to pass the treaty, with Iran, Syria and North Korea the only nations voting against it.
The long-debated U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) requires countries to regulate and control the export of weaponry such as battle tanks, combat vehicles and aircraft and attack helicopters, as well as parts and ammunition for such weapons. It also provides that signatories will not violate arms embargoes, international treaties regarding illicit trafficking, or sell weaponry to a countries for genocide, crimes against humanity or other war crimes.
According to Reuters, the NRAÂ “opposes the treaty and has vowed to fight to prevent its ratification by the U.S. Senate when it reaches Washington. The NRA says the treaty would undermine domestic gun-ownership rights, a view the U.S. government rejects.”
The next step for the treaty is for member states to sign and ratify it. In the United States, that means ratification by the Senate, where it will have to pass by a two-thirds vote – a tall order by any measure, and extremely unlikely in the current political climate.
However, once 50 countries have ratified the treaty, it goes into effect as international law. Given the fact that the treaty passed by a 154-3 margin, getting 50 countries to ratify seems like a foregone conclusion. Once the treaty goes into effect as international law, how this would affect the United States if the treaty has not been ratified here remains unclear.
Update 4/2/2013 6:15 PM CST
Speaking to a group of reporters today on a conference call, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott called the UN Arms Treaty a “dangerous threat” and “Unconstitutional”, and is vowing to fight it using any means necessary. He said:
[The treaty] gives power to the United Nations to impose firearm restrictions that will be run by international bureaucrats, who will not be accountable to the people of the United States. The attempt to use this U.N. platform to establish a registry of weapons in the United States also poses a problem.
You can read more here.
…One could only hope they’d send blue helmets to take American’s guns.
I was thinking the same thing Frank, red dot from an Aimpoint PRO would show up nice
Not mine of course because I lost ALL of my guns in a tragic boating accident
If I change the story up a bit, can I use it too?
Wheather you like it or not.. we are heading for dark times that may or maynot lead to to a new revelutiin or WW3
A spelling revolution! Vive le Sesame Street!
Why on earth would someone want to be a part of a World Government and lose complete control of how to run their own country? It makes no sense. Letting foreign governments with different morals, religious ideals, and ethics dictate what we do here in the States is idiotic at best. Isn’t that the whole reason the Revolutionary War was fought? So as to not be manipulated by someone halfway around the world. It is sad how quickly we forget history.
There is nothing comparable these days to the Revolution War days, if socialism would have been mentioned back in those days someone would have put that person’s/people’s ass on a boat and set them out to sea
My Grandpa was in WW II, he never spoke a bad word or got worked up about much and if he were alive today he would probably be cussing and screaming about the BS situation we are facing now
There is a WW II Marine that owns a farm a few miles from me and all he keeps asking is “Where did we go wrong?”
My answer to him is people became complacent, said it would never happen and here we are today
When you have a general population that takes medical advice from Jenny Mccarthy, lives on Facebook, believes anything they read that was perpetuated by the liberal media, takes voting cues from Katy Perry and George Clooney, and pays $6 without flinching for a cup of coffee, eventually those people in the general population (who are now the majority) who have never had a real struggle in their lives would shape our nation. They are too concerned with advocating for gay marriage and getting new rights than protecting the ones that are being taken away from us.
The young generations idea of a tragedy and hardship is someone posting something mean about them online and their parents not giving them allowance. We have raised a generation of entitled, vapid, naive, ignorant little brats who have no idea how to work for anything or how to preserve what our forefathers worked for. They have hardly any idea what goes on in politics and are more concerned with stupid 99% rallies than getting jobs and being contributing members of a decent society. They will be the downfall of us – you can ask many of them simple history questions and they have no clue what they answers are. Entitlement and ignorance are a recipe for disaster.
You said it better than I did, you forgot the tragedy of the kids X-Box or PS3 crashing now that is a life shattering experience to many kids
The US tries to control countries all over the world… that doesn’t seem idiotic to you?
Well said Nikki
From a legal perspective, Obama won’t be able to do much if anything with this if the Senate doesn’t ratify it and will be limited even if something weird happened and they did ratify it. In Reid v. Covert, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution supersedes international treaties ratified by the United States Senate and “no agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the Congress, or on any other branch of Government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution.” That being said, that doesn’t mean that the Obama’s administration won’t try to do something, claim it’s legal and wait for someone to sue. He’s not to be trusted for a second.
I sure as hell don’t trust the courts, especially the Supreme Court after Robert’s bullshit ruling on Oblumpkincare