U.N. Wants
Global Gun Ban
NewsMax.com
Friday, April 27, 2001
The U.N. is after Americans' Second Amendment gun
rights – it wants gun ownership banned in the U.S., and
it's not going to stop until it gets its way.
That’s the warning from the National Rifle
Association’s Wayne LaPierre, who reveals that "for
the first time in the history of the world, a United Nations
conference has set its sights on global disarmament –
disarming citizens worldwide – including you and me."
At an 11-day meeting beginning July 9 at U.N.
headquarters in New York, every extremist anti-gun group in the
world will show up at a summit on "small arms," where
the delegates will attempt to create a global standard of gun
control, banning civilian fire arms ownership worldwide.
Their aim, LaPierre warns, is "to bring the
nightmare of England, Australia and Canada into our country and
our homes."
Those nations, along with South Africa and others,
have caved in to international pressure and severely restricted
civilian gun ownership. Canada has gone so far as to make handgun
ownership a felony. As a result, crime rates in England and
Australia have skyrocketed since the gun limits went into effect,
once again proving the truth of the old saying that if guns are
outlawed only outlaws will have guns.
While the U.N. has no power to force the U.S. to
ban gun ownership, it can, with the enthusiastic help of the
foreign and domestic anti-self-defense media, create a powerful
international movement to shame the U.S. into junking the Second
Amendment rights of private gun ownership.
"You and I won’t go one day without
hearing that the rest of the world is banning guns and it’s
time for the U.S. to get in line and do the same," LaPierre
wrote.
As a prelude to this frightening gathering of
anti-self-defense fanatics, a number of proposals have already
been advanced at various U.N. forums. Among them:
Strategies to reduce the number of guns in private
hands that include mandating a maximum one-gun-per-person rule;
A ban on possession of handguns by anyone other
than government officials and target shooters who would be
forced to store their weapons at shooting ranges;
Worldwide licensing of firearms registered in a
vast U.N. computer bank.
"The bottom line is that international gun
banners want every gun – every single gun worldwide –
to be under U.N. and government control," warns LaPierre.
"And that includes your rifle, your shotgun, your handgun,
and even family heirlooms that have been handed down from
generation to generation."
LaPierre urges Americans to`contact Sen. Jesse
Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and
express their outrage at this latest U.N. power grab.
Helms, he notes, is already on record as
deploring the U.N.’s anti-gun project. He wrote a letter
to the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1999 in
which he described the U.N. gun ban project: nothing less that a
brazen international expansion of the [Clinton-Gore] domestic
gun control agenda."
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