Letter to the Editor: UNSAT still a threat
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The United Nations "Small Arms Treaty" crackdown is hitting high gear in the U.S. and worldwide. The global gun grabbers don't believe anyone can stop them. To these radicals, "small arms control" means sending all guns into the incinerator.
Currently 141 countries support the treaty by formally ratifying or by signing on to the treaty. The U.N.'s goal is to destroy the legal buying, owning, manufacturing and selling of pistols, rifles and shotguns, especially American-owned guns.
The gun grabbing globalists years ago predicted the U.S. would ultimately cave to U.N. demands due to peer and market pressure. With their tenth conference coming this August, the U.N. is laying groundwork to deliver on these threats by requiring:
* All manufacturers seeking to export firearms must ask permission and report on how they believe the guns they sell will be used. Thus, the U.N. would have the final say on whether any firearm transfers are allowed.
* All treaty countries must allow firearm manufacturers to be sued for crimes committed with their products.
* All countries involved in exporting firearms, including the U.S. must establish a national control system, a national registration. The first step toward outright gun confiscation.
* Some want the U.S. to ratify or fully comply with the "arms trade treaty" in the naive view they'll be safe and be allowed to keep selling firearms overseas or that American gun owners won't mind their names going into a U.N. uber-database.
The U.N. globalists view guns in the wrong peoples' hands as the greatest threat to their utopian socialist designs for the world. Thus, they want zero firearms ownership, period, and the U.S. being the world's largest firearms manufacturing country.
Under the constitution, international treaties require a two-thirds vote in the Senate, 67 votes. The Senate's filibuster rule, requiring 60 votes for most major legislation, may not stop this treaty.
Senators have watered down the filibuster rule in recent years with many special exceptions, like trade promotional authority, which allows the president to enter into binding trade agreements like NAFTA, with a simple majority in both houses of Congress.
As the "small arms treaty" deals with international rules for firearms sales -- the treaty's provisions could be repackaged as a trade agreement and rammed into law with 51 Senate votes and a simple majority in the House, which president Biden would consider his crowning achievement as president.
Steve Wolverton
Parkersburg