There go our 2nd Amendment rights

The United Nations is Coming After Your Second Amendment Rights
Aug 1, 2006
By Matthew Dailey

The United Nations concluded it Small Arms Review Conference in New York City on July 7th. The stated purpose of the meeting was to curb the illicit global trade in small arms.

While the stated goal sounded non-controversial and benign, the ultimate purpose of the conference backers is to have a binding international treaty that will severely restrict civilian gun ownership in the United States.

U.N. bureaucrats, who are not elected or accountable to the American people, are aiming to impose severe restrictions on the legal gun trade in an attempt to stop the illegal arms trade. A host of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), working in concert with the United Nations, are working towards gutting our Second Amendment rights.

One organization that is a major backer in restricting civilian gun ownership is the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), headed by Rebecca Peters. She heads a coalition that pursues a strategy to confiscate, ban, and destroy guns.

The U.N. Small Arms Review Conference that took place in New York City is another attempt by gun control advocates to push for an international gun ban treaty. It is an assault on our core freedoms protected by the Constitution.

The Libertarian Party passed a resolution condemning the 2006 U.N. Small Arms Review Conference at its national convention in Portland, Oregon.

The resolution reads as follows:
WHEREAS all individuals are endowed by God or Nature certain unalienable rights as specified by the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, particularly the first ten Amendments (the Bill of Rights), which is the supreme law of the land,

WHEREAS the Second Amendment to the Constitution unconditionally guarantees to the individual the right to keep and bear arms, which is one of these natural rights,

WHEREAS the Libertarian Party Platform calls for that unconditional guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms,

and WHEREAS, right now, as the Libertarian Party National Convention meets here and as our nation celebrates its founding and its Constitution, the United Nations is right here in America insulting the American people, the United States Constitution and our country's national sovereignty by holding its 2006 Small Arms Review Conference, which is devising ways and means to confiscate our lawful property and means of self-defense,

THEREFORE LET IT BE RESOLVED that the Libertarian Party, in the strongest possible terms, condemns the United Nations 2006 Small Arms Review Conference.

If more gun control advocates are elected to Congress and the White House, the U.N.'s global ban on guns will become a reality.

Only by electing Libertarian Party candidates to Congress can we defend our Second Amendment rights and protect our nation's sovereignty.