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...
Comment
Facts on the internet are few. Opinion reigns supreme.
In the political arena, facts are usually biased to sway a voter.. If one educates by only presenting one side of a discussion, that is, well.. what many rally against.. Does one always believe everything they hear as fact ... no doubts?
Fear is a powerful emotion, and even a strong man or woman can succumb to fear..
Just remember, Hillary will sell her soul to the devil for one-upsman ship status.
Do not be surprised at what kind of skeletons you find if you do research on CABAL.
It gets scarey.
And, there are quite a number of NAZI x's that were spirited out of Germany during the Nunenberg Trials to keep Mother Russia from capturing them for intelligence debrief.
In all of your awake hours you can never guess who took them; the initials of the Coutry are the United States of America. A few have died since 2000 and left troves of documents.
I imagine education will need to be all points of view.
Lizzie, never "difficult for the FCTP to keep an appearance of not endorsing" when we do the right thing. The right thing is just to not endorse.. We educate.
I have always defended the TP when people I know would refer to them as extreme...
Now I am beginning to wonder if I have been wrong all this time.
Leanne, thank you. It will, of course be difficult for FCTP to keep an appearance of not endorsing. I wish you well with the process.
Roma, that was then this is now.. Much different.. Thanks for the feedback..The teams work will be used. Well organized and the process is solid.. Office Manager already working to get the work received today up on the site.
You are correct we do not ENDORSE and that is the key word. We are able to educate. Candidate Research documents are educational. They will be fact oriented, and fair. Our goal is only to provide information so that people can eduate themselves. I have been asked several times who I am voting for.. I say that is private, my decision.. And then help people find information. There are several of us that constantly monitor everything that is done as we will never knowingly cross the line.
If you're not already aware. This is what's going on in DC while dangerous criminals are allowed back out on the streets. It's horrifying that this is happening to our citizens and veterans for protesting the hijacking of our election process. This is still happening! They are STILL being tortured and treated like full on terrorists.
You may not be aware of the typical things they're forced to go through...…
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