(Letter to the Editor - Graphic Illustration/MetroCreativeConnection)

The Aug. 20 News and Sentinel readers were again misinformed by another preposterous letter to the editor warning us all about the evils of the United Nations Small Arms Treaty (UNSAT). The text of that treaty has been distorted into a never-ending source of ridiculous silliness by a letter writer who seems to be absolutely obsessed with UNSAT. That 8/20 letter was his umpteenth attempt to confuse local readers using a distorted UNSAT as the base for his fiction.

UNSAT has been bouncing around the U.N. for four-plus decades. That treaty is aimed at tracking arms shipments around the world and penalizing nations that carelessly allow weapons to reach terrorists. That’s essentially the whole treaty summarized in one sentence. As far as the U.S. is concerned, there’s absolutely nothing ominous in the treaty. The treaty clearly states the U.N. has no influence over the national gun laws of any member U.N. nation.

But that Aug. 20 letter writer thinks he can frighten News and Sentinel readers into believing that UNSAT is a threat to the U.S. Constitution, specifically the 2nd Amendment. The treaty isn’t a threat now and has never been a threat, but that letter writer is so obsessed with UNSAT he just keeps repeating that mindless lie.

The icing on the cake on Aug. 20 was a dire warning that we must all believe in the dangers of UNSAT because the treaty was written by Hillary Clinton. How absurd. When the UNSAT treaty first appeared decades ago Hillary Clinton was the unknown wife of an unknown Arkansas politician, and I doubt if she was writing treaties for anyone back then.

I firmly believe that letter-writer has missed his calling. He should stop wasting his time (and ours) sending his fictitious letters to the News and Sentinel. Instead, he should reach higher and stretch his vast potential by applying for a staff-writers position at Fox News, where he’d be free to lie and confuse a national audience.

Talent like his shouldn’t be limited to frightening only the folks who read the local newspaper.

Ralph Chambers

Parkersburg