 |
| NRA Headquarters, Fairfax Virginia USA (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Today in New York, negotiations began at the UN on
the Arms Trade Treaty, which would require countries to determine whether the
weapons they sell might be used to commit serious human rights violations,
terrorism or transnational organized crime.
The Obama administration has indicated that it will
support the accord, although US support has been lackluster at best in the
past. Predictably, the Neanderthals of the National Rifle Association (NRA)
have come out against the treaty, fearing that the treaty will be used to
regulate civilian weapons. Among the treaty’s most vocal opponents, if the NRA
fails in its efforts to sabotage the ongoing negotiations and gut the treaty,
one can be sure that it will redouble its efforts to ensure its staunch
supporters in the Senate block US ratification.
Whether this is true or not, one has to take a step
back and analyze what’s happening here. It’s really simple, when you peel back
the layers of this stinky onion. The NRA, and other gun nuts around the world,
don’t seem to care if human rights violations, terrorism, and crime are
committed using civilian weapons – just don’t even think about limiting their
right to have their phallic substitutes handy and in large numbers. That this treaty is a common sense approach
to reducing gun violence around the world, that has the support of many
individuals, is lost on these tone-deaf fools who are still mentally inhabiting
a world of wild animals and log cabins, and who don’t seem to know the
difference between a muzzle loader and a 15-round automatic magazine with steel
jacketed slugs.
I wonder if they’ll push for no limits on private
ownership of anti-aircraft weapons to protect against those black UN
helicopters that’s trying to invade and install a world government behind our
backs.
No comments:
Post a Comment