ASIDE: Do you suppose we could PAY Russia to take the U.N. BEFORE July? (I would be happy to provide them with a Ryder Truck or two out of my own pocket! ;-)
Actually, this may be the UN's undoing. Any TRUE gun owner KNOWS that the Constitution doesn't GIVE him the right to own guns... (No one can GIVE you something that is yours by sovereign right of existence.) What the Constitution sought to do was to fully RECOGNIZE that right and thereby make certain it was PROTECTED from the enslaught of such onerous bodies as the United Nations, the Federal Government and Ignorant 'mothers' Against Guns. Be sure to read the comments at the end of this article.

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U.N. Trying to Confiscate U.S. Gun Rights
by Paul M. Weyrich
From the "Endangered Liberties" Television Program

One of the reasons I always thought the various proposals to move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States had merit has to do with the sorts of meetings which this outfit hosts on a regular basis. Come this July, every opponent of guns in the world, legitimate or illegitimate, will be descending on New York for a conference sponsored by the UN, aimed at pressuring the United States into giving up our Second Amendment to the Constitution. As Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association suggests, the UN lacks any enforcement authority to make that happen. But this conference will be the centerpiece of a global campaign by the media to try to shame the United States into giving up her citizens' right to keep and bear arms.

LaPierre is absolutely correct about that. If you have seen any coverage of the subject you no doubt have seen glowing reports about how guns have been outlawed in English speaking countries such as Great Britain, Australia and Canada. The media compares gun deaths in those nations with gun deaths in this country and, of course, they look great by comparison.

What the media doesn't tell you is that deaths by other means have skyrocketed in these English speaking nations. Moreover, crime in general, while down in the United States significantly, is now up in the same proportions in those nations.

Much of the reduction in crime in this country can be attributed to concealed carry laws. With concealed carry, potential felons do not know who is and is not licensed to carry a gun in Virginia. In states without concealed carry laws, there has not been a comparable reduction in crime.

In any case, what our citizens, our legislators do about guns is our business. We do not need people with no morality, who claim to be acting in the name of morality, telling this nation what to do.

Citizens need to talk about this conference now. We need to alert talk show hosts and other forums about what is coming. We need to be prepared to counter what is going to be an unprecedented campaign against guns. I don't own a gun. I've never wanted one. But I don't want the UN telling me or members of my family I can't have one. That is not their business. That is our business. The United Nations needs to be told once and for all to mind their own.

Paul Weyrich is president of the Free Congress Foundation
<http://www.freecongress.org/>.
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From: The Republican
To: therepublican@i...
Subject: U.N. Trying to Confiscate U.S. Gun Rights
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 23:52:38 -0500

NOTE: The 2nd amendment neither allows nor disallows the right to keep and bear arms, and indeed it cannot do either. It does, however, RECOGNIZE that right. The 2nd amendment states that the GOVERNMENT SHALL NOT INFRINGE upon the right "of the people" to keep and bear arms.

"The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is itin any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress, and has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government."
92 U.S. 542, U.S. v. Cruikshank, (U.S.La. 1875)

The very purpose of the Bill Of Rights is made clear in its preamble:

PREAMBLE TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

"Begun and held at the city of New York, on Wednesday, the 4th day of March, 1789.

The conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, IN ORDER TO PREVENT MISCONSTRUCTION OR ABUSE OF ITS POWERS, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, and as extending the ground of public confidence in the government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution:"

So, the UN plans to convince the American people to give up the 2nd amendment, thereby allowing government infringement upon that right! Most Americans are not aware that the 2nd amendment, and the Bill of Rights itself, only prevents misconstruction and abuse of government power, and believe wrongly that the Bill of rights conveys rights. Most Americans do not even know what the word "rights" means, much less how they happened to come into possession of them. Most folks on this list know, especially those who have taken the course, or are taking it now. - Tony]

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