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07-05-2006, 01:45 AM
Take The "UN" Out Of Our Guns
July 4, 2006
Doug Wrenn
Magic City Morning Star
Recent Internet alerts and postal mailings from Gun Owners Of America (www.gunowners.org (http://www.gunowners.org)), of which I am a proud member, warns its members of yet another gun grabbing attempt by the United Nations (UN). Battles are brewing in both chambers of the Congress over this matter, with the usual suspects lining up on the usual respective pro and con sides of the issue.
Today, on July 4th (as I write this column), while many of us celebrate the birth of our nation, and thus our independence and liberty, the evil, corrupt and inept UN is currently convening to grab our guns.
The UN’s International Network on Small Arms (IANSA) is aggressively seeking mandatory registration and licensing, prohibition of ownership of certain types of military style rifles, and mandatory lock-up of firearms. These are dangerous proposals.
These proposals are dangerous, because they are being suggested by the UN, the world’s largest harbinger of terrorists and tyrants, and of recent "Oil for food" scandal fame. This would be the same UN that allows terrorists and tyrants onto its Human Rights, and similar significant committees. And these thugs want our guns.
The proposals are also each individually dangerous for their own, individual reasons. The first danger is that to the less than informed citizen, they sound innocuous, and possibly even worthwhile.
Historically, governments that have turned on their people first grabbed the guns. How did these oppressive regimes know where the guns were? You guessed it, by registration and licensing records. That was how the guns got grabbed in England, and now, rates of "hot" burglaries (home invasions while occupied) have soared. The government’s brainy solution: legislation that bans, by criminal penalty, citizens from using physical force or any perceived dangerous instrument to protect themselves from robbery or attack. And now, England is actually considering "knife control." Somehow these measures failed to protect Londoners from train bombings by terrorists this past July 7th. In his book, "More Guns, Less Crime," Professor John Lott shows how areas with less restrictive gun control laws have less crime, while those areas with a disarmed citizenry are out of control. IANSA wants to track every gun, not just from manufacture, but from purchase, and transfer, as well. Armed US citizens thwart an average of two million violent crimes perpetrated against them or innocent third parties annually, and in most cases, without having to fire their weapons.
A madman in Los Angeles shot up an unprotected schoolyard full of kids a few years back, and later told police that he was previously detoured from a couple other schools that had visible armed security. Before becoming a Texas state legislator and 2nd Amendment advocate, Suzanna Gratia-Hupp will forever live with the tragic memories of helplessly watching both of her parents get shot to death by another madman in a Killeen, Texas restaurant, while her gun was out of reach and secured in her vehicle in the parking lot. IANSA is just not the answer.
Other countries enjoy nowhere near as many rights and liberties as we do, here in the US. That fact is what people should bear in mind before saying that no one needs a semi-automatic, or military rifle to hunt deer. Hunting isn’t even mentioned in the 2nd Amendment. Our government theoretically works because there are four checks and balances, but you usually only hear of three of them: The Executive Branch (The President and his cabinet), The Legislative Branch (Congress), and The Judicial Branch (The courts). Each branch has specific and separated powers. Then there is the fourth check and balance to our government: the people, to secure ourselves and our nation from overthrow by a commandeered government, or enemies to our nation from without or within, and that is why we must be allowed to be unrestricted in our owned weaponry. You think it can’t happen here? Go back and read my previous article regarding the SPP. Wake up, sleepy citizens. You have already lost your government, and it will only get worse from here on!
I love writing about mandatory gun lock-ups, because I always get to tell one of my favorite stories: the Governor Glendenning incident. A more common occurrence than government overthrow is home invasion, and that is why guns should not be secured when the homeowner is home. Anti-gunner, and then Maryland Governor, Parris, ("Hey, could you get this for me, I think it’s stuck?") Glendenning was advocating mandatory gun locks in his state and made the mistake of attempting to show an audience at a public speaking event how "easily" someone could supposedly remove a gunlock in an emergency. First, to set the stage, bear in mind that Glendenning was in a lit room in the middle of the day, giving a presentation and surrounded by his State Police body guards, and presumably not shaking from an adrenaline rush, or in fear of his life. That all established, after four and a half minutes of rightfully exposing his numbskulled boondoggle for what it was, Glendenning could not unlock the gun and had to have one of his Troopers unlock it for him. Mind you, four and half minutes, plenty of time to call 9-1-1, and then be murdered by an intruder or an attacker at some point between the time you hang up the phone, and the time the police (maybe) arrive.
Even the Supreme Court has recognized that the role of the police is realistically to collectively, not individually protect society. The individual citizen, therefore, has not only the right, but also the duty to protect him or herself, and family. Thus, legislated mandatory gunlocks defeat that purpose. Proper parental training, such as letting children (while supervised) look at and handle (empty) guns whenever they so desire removes much of the mystery and curiosity factor that would otherwise induce errant childish behavior to cause unintended tragedy. The "Eddie Eagle Program" of that "evil and ominous" National Rifle Association (NRA) is an excellent formally school-taught program (where allowed) that instructs children in gun safety. Lastly, discretion should be exercised in storing a weapon where it is both reasonably safe from the grasp of children, yet also reasonably accessible by the gun owner in exigent circumstances.
A conservative friend of mine reads movie reviews, and if the Hollywood reviewer likes a movie, he avoids it; if the reviewer criticizes a movie, he sees it. That is actually relatively sage thinking. You can often tell how good or bad an issue is by who is for and against it.
In an insidious June 30th column of the National Catholic Register, Father Robert Drinan was beating the drum to support IANSA’s initiatives, and of course, bad-mouthing the USA, and the NRA in a manner about as lovingly as that of a scorned lover referring to his or her "ex." Drinan (From here on, I very intentionally refuse to honor him with the title, "Father") is a Jesuit priest, a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and an abysmal disgrace to the Catholic Church. He formerly served as Democrat Congressman from the Socialist People’s Republic Of Massachusetts, and was so adamant in his pro-abortion rights advocacy, that in 1980, Pope John Paul II banned priests from ever again entering electoral politics. Drinan, apparently unfazed, also publicly supported then President Clinton’s veto of the 1996 partial birth abortion ban. According to a Wikipedia article, Drinan was elected to Congress on an anti-war (Viet Nam) platform in 1970, and "served," for lack of a better term, in Congress until 1981. He was also the first to introduce impeachment legislation against then President Nixon, and much to the chagrin of his fellow members of Congress, before any real evidence was in. "Bob, The Baby Butcher" is affiliated with various liberal and supposedly human rights organizations, and has made quite a career of being involved with the human rights cause, as well as being the anti-Catholic poster child of moral relativism. You get the gist. If I appear to be sneering, please let me clarify: I am.
Too often, including recently, we see many of these phony, one-sided, left-leaning so-called "human rights" groups, which tend to be filled with like-minded people such as the afore-mentioned and notorious infanticide cheerleader, sporting the Roman collar, rail on about human rights abuses, as long as the US, via its citizens an/or armed forces members, are the alleged perpetrators, and not the victims. Much like with Drinan’s UN goombas, I see agenda as the chief culprit, in terms of motive for these seemingly seething anti-US groups, as opposed to ignorance or naivety. To quote the sage adage, "Consider the source." Drinan should be defrocked from the priesthood, and much like with the other sanctimonious hypocrites at the UN, his less than Gospel version of putrid, anti-American propaganda, would be laughable, if it weren’t so sickening and sad, and it certainly carries no credibility, whatsoever, with me. When I see the ilk of Robert Drinan and his UN cronies aggressively supporting IANSA, I know I am right in opposing it.
In his article, Drinan also cited a quote from Pope Benedict XVI, who supposedly made a comparison that 50% of the $950 billion spent on guns could instead take care of the poor. With all due respect to the Holy Father, most of the world’s poor and hungry are poor and hungry because of oppressive and tyrannical government regimes, and in these corrupt and oppressive regimes, very little of donated assistance reaches those who need it. It is the poor who especially need guns, so that they can overcome their oppressors, and get the food, clothing, medicine, and whatever other help and resources they need, but don’t hold your breath waiting for Bob "The Pharisee" Drinan and his accomplices to be of any worth in that regard. They are too busy trying to disarm the US and falsely blaming inanimate objects for violent crime, rather than addressing the tougher human issues that cause it. Guns are no more of murderers than rocks are pets. To quote "Al Capone" (Robert DeNiro) in the movie of "The Untouchables," "You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." Do us all a real service, Drinan, serve some penance; sit down and shut up for once. You are an abomination to your Church and to your country, not to mention, a term that I am sure you might well recall from your cherished anti-Viet Nam War days, a "baby killer." I wonder how many strayed, naïve, confused, "Cafeteria Catholics" murdered God’s most precious gift, and how many times, because you, a sham of a priest, and a demon in shepherd’s clothing, abused their trust, and told them it was their "right." Robert Drinan, you nauseate me. As a Catholic, and as an American, I abhor you.
One GOA alert also cited a bill, supposedly authored by Ohio Senator Mike "RINO" ("Republican In Name Only") DeWine, which would ban gun ownership of any US citizen indicted (as opposed to "convicted") of a crime, by a foreign country. Recall that a few years back, even our globalist President Bush opposed US membership and involvement in the UN’s International Criminal Court (ICC), because it would not recognize the US Constitution, and was little more than a vehicle by which ant-US sentiment (a frequent common denominator at the UN) could be exercised at will by the UN globalists by targeting our citizens and soldiers for crimes of the ICC’s definition, and without any recognition of US rights and liberties for our (accused) people. I thus have difficulty with "Senator DeRINO’s" idea, as I understand it, that US citizens would be deprived of their lawful 2nd Amendment guaranteed rights because of leveled charges of crimes against them, allegedly committed in foreign countries, decided by foreign courts, and in some cases, by foreign governments with a clearly defined anti-US agenda. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) was another GOA named IANSA water carrier.
Much to their honorable and distinguished credit, Senator David Vitter, (R-LA), Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), and UN Ambassador John Bolton are all named by GOA as fighting this IANSA lunacy on the behalf of true American patriots and lovers of liberty. Senator Vitter has a bill pending in the Senate, S.1488, and Representative Paul has a bill pending in the House of Representatives, H.R. 1658 to secure our rights and liberties in this matter. The day is long overdue that we get ourselves out of the UN, and the UN out of our country, and out of our lives. To his credit, Representative Paul has been a staunch fighter for that cause, but with less than significant results because of the increasing epidemic called "globalism" that is silently but rapidly burrowing its way into the Congress, and gaining more of a corrosive stronghold on our national security, sovereignty, liberty, prosperity, and quality of life. This vile agenda stealthily slithers like a cobra or python, and then likewise crushes and suffocates the life out of its prey so when ready to spring and strike, and appropriately so. Only snakes are promoting this veiled travesty.
Like it or not, a gun is a tool. Like many other tools, it can be used correctly, or wrongly, but that outcome is decided by the intelligent being wielding the tool, and not by the inanimate tool, itself. As I drive around the loopy, liberal, and naive northeast, I often see these warm and fuzzy bumper stickers affixed to the Volvos and Saabs in traffic ahead of me, advocating peace. How nice! The dirty little secret that these clueless, liberal elitist "Chip and Chelsea" types, driving these fine, imported luxury vehicles around in their safe, secluded, blissfully myopic, utopian little bubbles of suburbia fail to grasp, however, is that unlike the illusion of a "free lunch," peace does not come without a price, and that price is paid with a gun, not an olive branch, not a latte, and not a soccer ball. Our nation could only have been forged by the barrel of a gun. Before you leave your computer to go out in your back yard today, on this July 4, 2006, to flip that burger or hot dog on the grill, first ponder this thought: would we still be celebrating the birth of our independence today, and all the liberty, prosperity and security that we have since reaped from it, if we had asked King George III for his permission for us to secede from England (where the current citizens are government-mandated defenseless crime victims)? What if we then asked him "pretty please, with sugar on top"? My fellow patriots (where, and to whom that title is still appropriately applicable), I wish you all a happy Independence Day. Enjoy it while you still can, because at the UN, today is not a holiday, and it’s business, as usual.
Link to article (http://magic-city-news.com/article_6209.shtml)
July 4, 2006
Doug Wrenn
Magic City Morning Star
Recent Internet alerts and postal mailings from Gun Owners Of America (www.gunowners.org (http://www.gunowners.org)), of which I am a proud member, warns its members of yet another gun grabbing attempt by the United Nations (UN). Battles are brewing in both chambers of the Congress over this matter, with the usual suspects lining up on the usual respective pro and con sides of the issue.
Today, on July 4th (as I write this column), while many of us celebrate the birth of our nation, and thus our independence and liberty, the evil, corrupt and inept UN is currently convening to grab our guns.
The UN’s International Network on Small Arms (IANSA) is aggressively seeking mandatory registration and licensing, prohibition of ownership of certain types of military style rifles, and mandatory lock-up of firearms. These are dangerous proposals.
These proposals are dangerous, because they are being suggested by the UN, the world’s largest harbinger of terrorists and tyrants, and of recent "Oil for food" scandal fame. This would be the same UN that allows terrorists and tyrants onto its Human Rights, and similar significant committees. And these thugs want our guns.
The proposals are also each individually dangerous for their own, individual reasons. The first danger is that to the less than informed citizen, they sound innocuous, and possibly even worthwhile.
Historically, governments that have turned on their people first grabbed the guns. How did these oppressive regimes know where the guns were? You guessed it, by registration and licensing records. That was how the guns got grabbed in England, and now, rates of "hot" burglaries (home invasions while occupied) have soared. The government’s brainy solution: legislation that bans, by criminal penalty, citizens from using physical force or any perceived dangerous instrument to protect themselves from robbery or attack. And now, England is actually considering "knife control." Somehow these measures failed to protect Londoners from train bombings by terrorists this past July 7th. In his book, "More Guns, Less Crime," Professor John Lott shows how areas with less restrictive gun control laws have less crime, while those areas with a disarmed citizenry are out of control. IANSA wants to track every gun, not just from manufacture, but from purchase, and transfer, as well. Armed US citizens thwart an average of two million violent crimes perpetrated against them or innocent third parties annually, and in most cases, without having to fire their weapons.
A madman in Los Angeles shot up an unprotected schoolyard full of kids a few years back, and later told police that he was previously detoured from a couple other schools that had visible armed security. Before becoming a Texas state legislator and 2nd Amendment advocate, Suzanna Gratia-Hupp will forever live with the tragic memories of helplessly watching both of her parents get shot to death by another madman in a Killeen, Texas restaurant, while her gun was out of reach and secured in her vehicle in the parking lot. IANSA is just not the answer.
Other countries enjoy nowhere near as many rights and liberties as we do, here in the US. That fact is what people should bear in mind before saying that no one needs a semi-automatic, or military rifle to hunt deer. Hunting isn’t even mentioned in the 2nd Amendment. Our government theoretically works because there are four checks and balances, but you usually only hear of three of them: The Executive Branch (The President and his cabinet), The Legislative Branch (Congress), and The Judicial Branch (The courts). Each branch has specific and separated powers. Then there is the fourth check and balance to our government: the people, to secure ourselves and our nation from overthrow by a commandeered government, or enemies to our nation from without or within, and that is why we must be allowed to be unrestricted in our owned weaponry. You think it can’t happen here? Go back and read my previous article regarding the SPP. Wake up, sleepy citizens. You have already lost your government, and it will only get worse from here on!
I love writing about mandatory gun lock-ups, because I always get to tell one of my favorite stories: the Governor Glendenning incident. A more common occurrence than government overthrow is home invasion, and that is why guns should not be secured when the homeowner is home. Anti-gunner, and then Maryland Governor, Parris, ("Hey, could you get this for me, I think it’s stuck?") Glendenning was advocating mandatory gun locks in his state and made the mistake of attempting to show an audience at a public speaking event how "easily" someone could supposedly remove a gunlock in an emergency. First, to set the stage, bear in mind that Glendenning was in a lit room in the middle of the day, giving a presentation and surrounded by his State Police body guards, and presumably not shaking from an adrenaline rush, or in fear of his life. That all established, after four and a half minutes of rightfully exposing his numbskulled boondoggle for what it was, Glendenning could not unlock the gun and had to have one of his Troopers unlock it for him. Mind you, four and half minutes, plenty of time to call 9-1-1, and then be murdered by an intruder or an attacker at some point between the time you hang up the phone, and the time the police (maybe) arrive.
Even the Supreme Court has recognized that the role of the police is realistically to collectively, not individually protect society. The individual citizen, therefore, has not only the right, but also the duty to protect him or herself, and family. Thus, legislated mandatory gunlocks defeat that purpose. Proper parental training, such as letting children (while supervised) look at and handle (empty) guns whenever they so desire removes much of the mystery and curiosity factor that would otherwise induce errant childish behavior to cause unintended tragedy. The "Eddie Eagle Program" of that "evil and ominous" National Rifle Association (NRA) is an excellent formally school-taught program (where allowed) that instructs children in gun safety. Lastly, discretion should be exercised in storing a weapon where it is both reasonably safe from the grasp of children, yet also reasonably accessible by the gun owner in exigent circumstances.
A conservative friend of mine reads movie reviews, and if the Hollywood reviewer likes a movie, he avoids it; if the reviewer criticizes a movie, he sees it. That is actually relatively sage thinking. You can often tell how good or bad an issue is by who is for and against it.
In an insidious June 30th column of the National Catholic Register, Father Robert Drinan was beating the drum to support IANSA’s initiatives, and of course, bad-mouthing the USA, and the NRA in a manner about as lovingly as that of a scorned lover referring to his or her "ex." Drinan (From here on, I very intentionally refuse to honor him with the title, "Father") is a Jesuit priest, a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and an abysmal disgrace to the Catholic Church. He formerly served as Democrat Congressman from the Socialist People’s Republic Of Massachusetts, and was so adamant in his pro-abortion rights advocacy, that in 1980, Pope John Paul II banned priests from ever again entering electoral politics. Drinan, apparently unfazed, also publicly supported then President Clinton’s veto of the 1996 partial birth abortion ban. According to a Wikipedia article, Drinan was elected to Congress on an anti-war (Viet Nam) platform in 1970, and "served," for lack of a better term, in Congress until 1981. He was also the first to introduce impeachment legislation against then President Nixon, and much to the chagrin of his fellow members of Congress, before any real evidence was in. "Bob, The Baby Butcher" is affiliated with various liberal and supposedly human rights organizations, and has made quite a career of being involved with the human rights cause, as well as being the anti-Catholic poster child of moral relativism. You get the gist. If I appear to be sneering, please let me clarify: I am.
Too often, including recently, we see many of these phony, one-sided, left-leaning so-called "human rights" groups, which tend to be filled with like-minded people such as the afore-mentioned and notorious infanticide cheerleader, sporting the Roman collar, rail on about human rights abuses, as long as the US, via its citizens an/or armed forces members, are the alleged perpetrators, and not the victims. Much like with Drinan’s UN goombas, I see agenda as the chief culprit, in terms of motive for these seemingly seething anti-US groups, as opposed to ignorance or naivety. To quote the sage adage, "Consider the source." Drinan should be defrocked from the priesthood, and much like with the other sanctimonious hypocrites at the UN, his less than Gospel version of putrid, anti-American propaganda, would be laughable, if it weren’t so sickening and sad, and it certainly carries no credibility, whatsoever, with me. When I see the ilk of Robert Drinan and his UN cronies aggressively supporting IANSA, I know I am right in opposing it.
In his article, Drinan also cited a quote from Pope Benedict XVI, who supposedly made a comparison that 50% of the $950 billion spent on guns could instead take care of the poor. With all due respect to the Holy Father, most of the world’s poor and hungry are poor and hungry because of oppressive and tyrannical government regimes, and in these corrupt and oppressive regimes, very little of donated assistance reaches those who need it. It is the poor who especially need guns, so that they can overcome their oppressors, and get the food, clothing, medicine, and whatever other help and resources they need, but don’t hold your breath waiting for Bob "The Pharisee" Drinan and his accomplices to be of any worth in that regard. They are too busy trying to disarm the US and falsely blaming inanimate objects for violent crime, rather than addressing the tougher human issues that cause it. Guns are no more of murderers than rocks are pets. To quote "Al Capone" (Robert DeNiro) in the movie of "The Untouchables," "You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." Do us all a real service, Drinan, serve some penance; sit down and shut up for once. You are an abomination to your Church and to your country, not to mention, a term that I am sure you might well recall from your cherished anti-Viet Nam War days, a "baby killer." I wonder how many strayed, naïve, confused, "Cafeteria Catholics" murdered God’s most precious gift, and how many times, because you, a sham of a priest, and a demon in shepherd’s clothing, abused their trust, and told them it was their "right." Robert Drinan, you nauseate me. As a Catholic, and as an American, I abhor you.
One GOA alert also cited a bill, supposedly authored by Ohio Senator Mike "RINO" ("Republican In Name Only") DeWine, which would ban gun ownership of any US citizen indicted (as opposed to "convicted") of a crime, by a foreign country. Recall that a few years back, even our globalist President Bush opposed US membership and involvement in the UN’s International Criminal Court (ICC), because it would not recognize the US Constitution, and was little more than a vehicle by which ant-US sentiment (a frequent common denominator at the UN) could be exercised at will by the UN globalists by targeting our citizens and soldiers for crimes of the ICC’s definition, and without any recognition of US rights and liberties for our (accused) people. I thus have difficulty with "Senator DeRINO’s" idea, as I understand it, that US citizens would be deprived of their lawful 2nd Amendment guaranteed rights because of leveled charges of crimes against them, allegedly committed in foreign countries, decided by foreign courts, and in some cases, by foreign governments with a clearly defined anti-US agenda. Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) was another GOA named IANSA water carrier.
Much to their honorable and distinguished credit, Senator David Vitter, (R-LA), Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), and UN Ambassador John Bolton are all named by GOA as fighting this IANSA lunacy on the behalf of true American patriots and lovers of liberty. Senator Vitter has a bill pending in the Senate, S.1488, and Representative Paul has a bill pending in the House of Representatives, H.R. 1658 to secure our rights and liberties in this matter. The day is long overdue that we get ourselves out of the UN, and the UN out of our country, and out of our lives. To his credit, Representative Paul has been a staunch fighter for that cause, but with less than significant results because of the increasing epidemic called "globalism" that is silently but rapidly burrowing its way into the Congress, and gaining more of a corrosive stronghold on our national security, sovereignty, liberty, prosperity, and quality of life. This vile agenda stealthily slithers like a cobra or python, and then likewise crushes and suffocates the life out of its prey so when ready to spring and strike, and appropriately so. Only snakes are promoting this veiled travesty.
Like it or not, a gun is a tool. Like many other tools, it can be used correctly, or wrongly, but that outcome is decided by the intelligent being wielding the tool, and not by the inanimate tool, itself. As I drive around the loopy, liberal, and naive northeast, I often see these warm and fuzzy bumper stickers affixed to the Volvos and Saabs in traffic ahead of me, advocating peace. How nice! The dirty little secret that these clueless, liberal elitist "Chip and Chelsea" types, driving these fine, imported luxury vehicles around in their safe, secluded, blissfully myopic, utopian little bubbles of suburbia fail to grasp, however, is that unlike the illusion of a "free lunch," peace does not come without a price, and that price is paid with a gun, not an olive branch, not a latte, and not a soccer ball. Our nation could only have been forged by the barrel of a gun. Before you leave your computer to go out in your back yard today, on this July 4, 2006, to flip that burger or hot dog on the grill, first ponder this thought: would we still be celebrating the birth of our independence today, and all the liberty, prosperity and security that we have since reaped from it, if we had asked King George III for his permission for us to secede from England (where the current citizens are government-mandated defenseless crime victims)? What if we then asked him "pretty please, with sugar on top"? My fellow patriots (where, and to whom that title is still appropriately applicable), I wish you all a happy Independence Day. Enjoy it while you still can, because at the UN, today is not a holiday, and it’s business, as usual.
Link to article (http://magic-city-news.com/article_6209.shtml)