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“How UN Treaty Threatens U.S. Gun Rights”
by WND
June 13th, 2013

Gun rights advocates successfully fended off efforts to expand background checks, limit magazine capacity and ban certain firearms weeks ago, but a United Nations treaty that President Obama vows to sign could have the same impact even if the Senate rejects it.

The United Nations Small Arms Trade treaty passed the U.N. General Assembly earlier this year. Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry announced Obama would sign the treaty, noting it is an “important contribution to efforts to stem the illicit trade in conventional weapons, which fuels conflict, empowers violent extremists and contributes to violations of human rights.”

Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt said the impact of this treaty would be far more damaging than the relatively benign language suggests.

“First of all, it’s probably helpful to understand who’s the good guys and who’s the bad guys at the U.N.,” Pratt told WND. “Most of those governments are at best crooked and often dictatorial, tyrannical and just horrible to have anything to do with.

“When they talk about keeping guns out of the wrong hands, they’re talking about keeping guns out of the hands of the people that might seek their freedom from these horrible governments. So for us to sign a treaty like that is for the United States to, in effect, sanitize, to approve of these governments, which we do anyway by being part of the U.N., and give them morally a stronger hand in oppressing their people,” Pratt said.

Pratt also contends that the U.N. has a terrible track record in protecting human life. He said the horrors in Rwanda are a perfect example of why the U.N. has no business deciding who should and should not have access to guns.

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