{"id":15164,"date":"2012-07-19T17:55:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T21:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15164"},"modified":"2012-07-19T17:55:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T21:55:04","slug":"obama-administration-aiding-and-abetting-future-un-gun-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15164\/obama-administration-aiding-and-abetting-future-un-gun-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Administration Aiding and Abetting Future UN Gun Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my column this week I explain the threat the UN\u2019s Arms Trade Treaty poses to every Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s the Obama Administration\u2019s official position?<\/p>\n

On the surface, the State Department has issued a series of \u201credlines<\/a>\u201d that claim to protect American Second Amendment rights to individual gun ownership, including the claim that \u201cThere will be no restrictions on civilian possession or trade of firearms otherwise permitted by law or protected by the U.S. Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are at least three reasons to suspect the Obama Administration\u2019s motives.<\/p>\n

First, the Obama Administration fought tooth-and-nail against interpreting the Second Amendment to guarantee the right of an individual to own a gun.\u00a0 Only by a 5-4 decision from the United States Supreme Court in McDonald v. Chicago<\/em><\/a> did the justices uphold the traditional understanding that the Second Amendment protects an individual right, and not a collective right to self-defense provided by the government.<\/p>\n

The gun control groups pushing the ATT side with the Obama Administration in seeing the right to self-defense as a collective rather than as an individual right.\u00a0 After fighting a losing battle for years in Congress, gun controllers opted in 2001 to make their cause global and found willing partners in dictatorial regimes like Syria, Iran and Russia looking for any way to disarm dissident groups while preserving their right to buy and sell guns for national security (i.e. repressing dissidents).<\/p>\n

Second, the Fast and Furious scandal where federal agents allowed 2,000 guns to \u201cwalk\u201d into the hands of Mexican drug cartels \u2013 without the Mexican government\u2019s knowledge \u2013 raises a serious question about the Obama Administration\u2019s credibility on gun rights.\u00a0 Already, one Department of Justice official has been caught in an email speculating how to use F&F as evidence to argue for stronger gun control laws<\/a>.\u00a0 Common sense says he wasn\u2019t the only one.<\/p>\n

Finally, there\u2019s the Obama Administration\u2019s presence at the ATT convention.<\/p>\n

During the George W. Bush years the United States refused to participate<\/a> in any discussions about an international arms treaty for fear it would lead to a step-by-step move to gut Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

In 2009, the Obama Administration reversed course and announced its support for the ATT.\u00a0 That buy-in caused negotiations at the UN to accelerate, culminating in the month-long convention in New York this month.<\/p>\n

Observers of the ATT convention expect the treaty\u2019s final text to be filled with vague assertions and unattainable aspirations.\u00a0 But as I point out in my column, the very existence of the ATT poses a serious long-term threat to Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights because future interpretations of its text can be molded to fit the gun controllers\u2019 policy outcomes.<\/p>\n

I suspect the Obama Administration knows this, and is aiding and abetting that very outcome by participating in the negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my column this week I explain the threat the UN\u2019s Arms Trade Treaty poses to every Americans\u2019 Second Amendment rights. So, what\u2019s the Obama Administration\u2019s official position? On the surface, the State Department has issued a series of \u201credlines\u201d that claim to protect American Second Amendment rights to individual gun ownership, including the claim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3704,143,2847,3160,220,3699,169],"class_list":["post-15164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arms-trade-treaty","tag-barack-obama","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-gun","tag-second-amendment","tag-treaty","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15168,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15164\/revisions\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}