A couple weeks ago, Mike at Sworn Enemy linked to a report from the NRA-ILA about a coalition of �human rights groups� lobbying the United Nations to draw up and pass new Gun Control legislation that would be able to be enforced WORLD WIDE.
A coalition of human “rights” groups is urging the United Nations (UN) to begin drawing up plans for a “legally binding,” worldwide “marking and tracing” system that they foresee as a means to track firearms from “factory” to “user” anywhere in the world (including the United States).
The coalition includes the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) and its vehemently anti-gun Director Rebecca Peters (who, in October 2004, debated NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre in the “Great Gun Debate”), in addition to Amnesty International and Oxfam International.
Despite the fact that numerous iterations of this flawed concept have already proven ineffective and unworkable, the gun-ban groups are nonetheless pushing the proposal, which, in the end, amounts to nothing more than a dressed up global registration scheme. It is also, they hope, a means by which they can foist their anti-gun agenda on other countries worldwide.
And this is where the Gun Control argument gets sticky among some gun rights supporters.
Just as abortion will never be outlawed by the Republicans, firearms laws will never get to the point of confiscation under the Democrats.
Oh sure, they�ll try their hardest, and they�ll bitch, moan, whine and scream bloody murder when they don�t get their way. But chances are that the Dems will never have the power to do anything like that without the help of the Republicans.
Basically they will need the Republicans help in either putting a judge or judges onto the SCOTUS bench who will rule the Second Amendment is irrelevant or will need them to pass an Amendment nullifying the Second.
Now don�t get me wrong, this is no reason to not watch their every move and vote as many of them out of office as possible. This goes for �Republicans in Name Only� (RINOs) as well. But the Dems simply will not get their way on Gun Control Legislation without Republican help.
Unless you add the help of some international body like the UN.
This is the Dems one ace up their sleeve on this topic.
Before I even started blogging, Misha had a post about the UN trying to count the firearms in the US. I cannot find it now, as I am sure you�ll understand that trying to look up disparaging words about both the UN and Gun Control at the Imperial Website is a long and arduous task.
Here’s the scoop, the UN held meetings with the ATF during the eight years of the Clinton Administration and believes that they now know an approximate and accurate estimate of how many firearms are privately owned in the US.
If that doesn�t scare the shit out of you, I don�t know what will.
I think we can all agree that �idiot� and �stupid� are two entirely different things. The people in charge of the UN are all �idiots� but they are not �stupid�.
Before attacking America, Japanese Admiral Isaroku Yamamoto said �You cannot invade America. There will be a rifle behind every blade of grass.�
He was right, and the UN knows it. They know that before they can get to America they will need to take all the firearms out of the hands of its citizens.
I also think that we can agree that before you can remove a group of somethings is to know how many somethings you need to remove.
They already have that part.
You can guess what comes next, I�m sure. I mentioned it at the beginning of this post.
If you subscribe to the Shotgun News, you probably already know about Fred of Fred�s M-14 Stocks. Fred writes about the UN and scenarios involving them being on our soil, unwelcome by the citizens.
Now to some, Fred seems a bit �out there�. But I assure you, he writes in that way to get folks eyes opened up, hoping that they read a little further and get more knowledge. He is right in the fact that the UN would love nothing more than to take over their largest benefactor and use its resources for their own needs.
You can go here and read some of his previous essays. I suggest that you do so and then also suggest that you subscribe to the SGN so as to get his new ones (and read the adverts for a large quantity of great deals on firearms, ammunition, accessories and obscure miscellany).
Fred, like Kim du Toit, is doing what he can to build a �Nation of Riflemen�. He has easy to read and informative manuals and targets for getting yourself and your firearms up to speed.
Please take it under advisement that you should take this task on as your 2005 resolution since, if you are anything like 99% of the rest of the population, you have probably already given up on any that you made previously.
Here’s the countervailing force to use against such a UN initiative, IF IT GETS TO ANY LEVEL OF ACTUALIZATION.
Weapons caches.
Yep, where have we heard of this?
Yep, when we invaded Iraq, Saddam’s Army put all their efforts into creating weapons caches. Not into fighting the invasion, into hiding weapons. There is a lot of evidence that they were doing this well before invasion, and that they may have planned out the logistics of caching years ago.
Caching does two things, of course. It arms a resistance movement, but, more importantly, IT GIVES PAUSE TO THOSE WHO WOULD ATTEMPT TO INVADE A NATION WHERE THERE WERE WEAPONS CACHED.
Most readers here have more than one weapon. Start now and give some thought as to how you would hide one or more weapons where they would not be found by standard eyeball searches of your home. Keep researching, and you might find the knowledge that would even enable you to cache out of “sight” of ground-penetrating radar or magnetometer search, which the Government would have at their disposal.
The time is not ripe yet to cache. It could be coming, though, and at this time, no one cares if you do the research. If you wait until confiscation is near, Internet use may be monitored, making research difficult.
Think about it now, research it now, don’t do it yet.
The UN is trying to count the guns in the US? Using whose math? Michael Moore’s?
This is a really good reason to have as many firearms as possible, because you’ll be able to stall their gun-counting efforts for a really long time. It’s a well known fact that the UN can’t blink an eye without arranging a committee. Getting an entire committee of gun counters to agree on any number larger than you could count on one hand will take a long, long time.
Do you think the UN will send in a regulatory force if we decide not to comply with their demands? We’ll probably have to invade ourselves.
Molon Labe!
I just read Fred’s “Happy Valley” story last week.