Thanks for your input.....
LOL.. whole lot of really stupid gun owners out there.. leave it to the NRA to blatently lie. But then, that's nothing new.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Americans mistakenly worried the
United Nations is plotting to take away their guns on July 4 -- U.S. Independence Day -- are flooding the world body with angry letters and postcards, the chairman of a U.N. conference on the illegal small arms trade said on Wednesday.
"I myself have received over 100,000 letters from the U.S. public, criticizing me personally, saying, 'You are having this conference on the 4th of July, you are not going to get our guns on that day,"' said Prasad Kariyawasam, Sri Lanka's U.N. ambassador.
"That is a total misconception as far as we are concerned," Kariyawasam told reporters ahead of the two-week meeting opening on Monday.
For one, July 4 is a holiday at U.N. headquarters and the world body's staff will be watching a fireworks display from the U.N. lawn rather than attending any meetings, he said.
For another, the U.N. conference will look only at illegal arms and "does not in any way address legal possession," a matter left to national governments to regulate rather than the United Nations, he added.
The campaign is largely the work of the U.S. National Rifle Association, whose executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, warns on an NRA Web site (http://www.stopungunban.org/) of a July 4 plot "to finalize a U.N. treaty that would strip all citizens of all nations of their right to self-protection."
Well technically the conference starts tomorrow, the 24th, and runs through the 7th, but I have no doubt the UN would like to see every gun taken away from any non military person.
I don’t know where I’d get that idea from though…….hummmmm
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Here's one of the main backers of the UN's gun control agenda.
I don't think they could make the agenda more clear
Reducing gun violence,
improving security:
National arms control efforts
Do a search on the word "civilian".
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Regardless, the U.N.'s influence in American gun laws is non-existant, despite the NRA propaganda.
In any case, I've always believed gun violence is not really a gun issue. It's a cultural issue. American's tend to be very violent and horribly criminal, settling issues with a bullet to the head... much like our government does.
After all, if guns were the issue, the Candians would have a blood bath on their hands as well, seeing how they have more firearms per capita than we do.
I just find the NRA to be absurd, and it wasn't always like that. 30 years ago, I was trained by NRA instructors and was a member. The NRA culture is very different now.
The NRA culture is very different now
So is the culture in Congress.
The NRA is doing what it can to help stop those in the US gov from taking away gun rights.
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