Rand Paul accuses Obama of plotting with ‘anti-American globalists’ to grab guns
A global campaign to confiscate firearms is setting its sights on law-abiding gun owners in the United States, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) warned in a statement over the weekend.
Paul, a long-time Second Amendment supporter and strong opponent
of gun control legislation, addressed subscribers of the National
Association on Gun Rights’ email list on Saturday to demand they
speak up about an alleged attempt to disarm Americans by way of a
United Nations treaty supported by the US.
The UN Arms Trade Treaty was proposed with the intent of curbing
mass acts of violence in parts of the world ravaged by uprisings
and civil war. According to Paul, however, it is being endorsed by
US President Barack Obama and his administration because it would
be the beginning of the end for gun ownership in the States.
“But after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut — and anti-gun
hysteria in the national media reaching a fever pitch — there’s no
doubt President Obama and his anti-gun pals believe the timing has
never been better to ram through the UN’s global gun control crown
jewel,” wrote Paul.
“I don’t know about you, but watching anti-American
globalists plot against our Constitution makes me sick.”
The UN did approve the Arms Trade Treaty last month when the US
and 153 other nations signed on to support the measure, “Yet
because the Constitution requires that two-thirds of the Senate
give its advice and consent to any treaty, Second Amendment
supporters still have a political route to stop the
administration,” the Wall Street Journal acknowledged at the
time.
Sixty-seven of the 100 US senators would need to approve the
treaty before the country can adopt the measure, but 53 of the
lawmakers said as recently as this March that they would vote
against the effort — essentially leaving the treaty unlikely to be
accepted by the US at any time in the near future. But even if the
likelihood of the US adopting the treaty seems grim, efforts in
across the country have been underway for some time to ensure the
president isn’t presented the opportunity to sign on.
“If you sign it, and if the US Senate ratifies the treaty,
Texas will lead the charge to have the treaty overturned in court
as a violation of the US Constitution,” Texas Attorney General
Greg Abbott, a Republican, wrote President Obama earlier this
year.
“I am deeply disappointed with the Obama administration’s
vote today in support of forcing the ominous Arms Trade Treaty
(ATT) through the UN General Assembly,” added Sen. Mike Kelly
(R-Pennsylvania). “For the sake of our national interests and
Constitutional freedom, I strongly urge President Obama to
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