Obama Administration Plans to Use UN ATT to Render 2nd Amendment Useless

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Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
April 2, 2013

The Obama administration has assured that the UN Arms Trade Treaty will pass regardless of Congress’ admonishment against the international gun grab by refusing to participate.

By changing the requirements of approval of treaties from first time consensus, the ratification of the ATT is almost completely ensured. Even if the US does not sign the treaty, its manifestation will have reverberating effects on the 2nd Amendment.

The Obama administration hopes that the circumstances presented will force a compromise on civilian firearms rights, the availability of guns to civilians and the UN mandating control over the 2nd Amendment; rather than Obama becoming the “bad guy”.

The stall in Congress over gun control legislation can be overturned with the adherence of the ATT which would allow the Obama administration to restrict the 2nd Amendment without overtly attacking the US Constitution.

Placing global arms trade rules over the sovereignty of individual nations, Obama can shed pressures from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and defense contractors who lobby to keep the US in the arms trade without restrictions.

Critics are shocked at the “weakness” of the ATT in its current form. They claim it lacks “meaningful enforcement mechanism[s]”. Activists groups supporting the ATT should put their power into calling for a more stringent treaty that claims international law as the end and be all for gun ownership rights.

Andrew Feinstein, author of “The Shadow World: Inside the GlobalArms Trade”, explains: “What governments would have to do is they would have to consider certain criteria before authorizing the export of materiel, military equipment, weaponry, from their country. Those would include the likelihood of it contributing to an intensification of conflict, atrocities against their own citizenry or citizenry from other countries. It would also mean that they would have to document exactly what they were both exporting and importing. So there are a whole number of ways in which it would apply regulation that doesn’t currently exist. However, again let me emphasize, without strong enforcement mechanisms and without really committed political will from individual nation states, the utility and effectiveness of this treaty still will remain to be seen.”

The UN ATT final draft has been released. The UN has told member states to “take or leave it.”

In the draft, the 2nd Amendment is completely retracted, and replaced with the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

By international mandate, the UN will have the “sovereign right of any State to regulate and control conventional arms”; this places international law above individual governmental controls over gun ownership.

Citing violence against women and children, the ATT claims individual countries must surrender control of manufacturer, purchase, possession, sale, trade and transfer of weapons of every size” to international control for the sake of “protecting women and children from armed conflict.”

The UN would have manipulative control over ammunition as well, rendering guns ineffective and gun owners helpless.

On control mechanism is the establishment of a “national control list” by each country to be given over to the UN for ultimate oversight. These lists will be turned given to the UN Secretariat; providing names, addresses and other identifiable information of gun owners to the UN.

The background checks being argued on Capitol Hill would simply become information transferred to the UN under reports that include all guns owned by who and where they reside.

Pennsylvania State Representative Daryl Metcalfe has introduced HB357 in an effort to defend the 2nd Amendment on the state level.

On April 6th, Metcalfe will host the Second Amendment Freedom Rally as a featured speaker to push his legislation for support.

Last week, Connecticut State Attorney Stephen J. Sedensky III stated that Adam Lanza, the proposed shooter who killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary, had shot more than 154 rounds in 5 minutes.
Search warrants were released to the public. Descriptions of weapons confiscated, an estimated 1,600 rounds found at the Lanza home, 9 knives, 3 Samurai swords, and 30 magazines.

Police investigators assume that this scene is proof that Lanza planned on having a shooting spree; intending for more people to die. They claim to have found a picture of “of what appears to be a deceased human covered with plastic and what appears to be blood.”

Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy remarked: “We now know that he left the lower-capacity magazines at home. This is exactly why we need to ban high-capacity magazines and why we need to tighten our assault-weapons ban. I don’t know what more we need to know before we take decisive action to prevent gun violence. The time to act is now.”

It was clear to the investigators; based on the “evidence” they discovered that Lanza was disturbed and obsessed with violent video games.

Mark Kelly, husband of former House Representative Gabrielle Giffords, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that mental illness contributed to gun violence and must be added to the proposed universal background check bill circulating on Captiol Hill.

Senator Lindsey Graham wants to have an “open process” on the Senate floor concerning gun control legislation. Graham understands that “nothing we’re talking about” would have stopped the Sandy Hook shooting from happening; and so he would vote against expansion of the current background check process.

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal confirmed Graham’s statements, saying: “How would anything in the bill, as it currently stands, have stopped anything that went on in Newtown? The majority leader has assured me and other proponents of these measures that we can offer amendments on both the assault-weapons ban and the prohibition on high-capacity magazines, so there will be both.”

During a gun control demonstration in Saint Louis, Mayor Francis Slay spoke to the crowd.

Protesters held their guns in plain view while Dr. Robert Flood, director of pediatric emergency at Saint Louis University said: “So if common sense legislation is not passed in the upcoming weeks and months, then please work to ratify the proposed Children’s Amendment to the US Constitution.”

Flood admitted that he was repeating information he received from the George Soros funded MoveOn.org and Organizing for Action, Obama’s propaganda website.

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