Thread: U.S. Senate voted 53 to 46 to Defend the Second Amendment

Xei, let's start with what you quoted. Who would decide what is legal international arms trade? The United Nations would. The U.N. would be able to decide what guns can be sold from other countries to distributors in the United States (and other countries). The U.N. would also have a registry of gun owners in the United States, which means we would be required to fill out some papers so we can be okay with the U.N. if we own the guns they allow. Requiring Americans to have U.N. gun registry and to not be able to buy imported guns goes against "... shall not be infringed."

What happens when the U.N. says no guns at all are permitted for import or export? Do we have to obey that? You can forget it. Our Constitution and the laws that exist within its boundaries are what count here. What happens when we have that nonsense and Congress decides to make the manufacture of guns in the U.S. illegal? Then Congress could say, "Hey, we didn't ban owning guns. We banned the manufacture of guns." What then? New guns would be effectively illegal in the United States. That can't happen.

It is interesting that the treaty's list of reasons for owning guns does not include self-defense. They have some reason for not acknowledging that purpose. Hmmm...

Ha ha, Alric, I knew which side you would be on.