When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms in the historic District of Columbia v. Heller case, President Obama was on the wrong side of history, when he supported the self-serving “collective-rights” argument. Even though he had stacked the court with left-leaning likenesses in his image, the 5-4 decision came in favor of an individual who only wanted the right to defend himself. And, last year Obama and his Supreme Court puppets lost another battle against the common man, when the Supreme Court ruled that the federal right to keep and bear arms applies to states and local levels of government. But, these conclusive results are not about to stop the Obama administration from its quest to subvert the Constitution via a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty designed to trump our rights.
Current language in the treaty threatens to give international authority the right to regulate arms sales already protected by the Second Amendment – the same Second Amendment Obama has sworn to uphold, yet has gone on record to oppose. But, this time our Supreme Court will have no voice. It’ll be up to the U.S. Senate and the President to ratify language contained in the “end-run” treaty, which seems dead on its American arrival.
For those who rail against the federal government’s partisan polarity, this issue seems to have galvanized Democrats and Republicans in favor of Americans’ rights. Fortunately for us, the President cannot sign on to treaties without support of two-thirds of the Senate, and this time it won’t be close.
With concern that domestic manufacture, possession, and sales of firearms and ammunition will be restricted in the U.S., twelve Democrat senators have teamed up with 45 Republicans in grWhen the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms in the historic District of Columbia v. Heller case, President Obama was on the wrong side of history, when he supported the self-serving “collective-rights” argument.
Even though he had stacked the court with left-leaning likenesses in his image, the 5-4 decision came in favor of an individual who only wanted the right to defend himself. And, last year Obama and his Supreme Court puppets lost another battle against the common man, when the Supreme Court ruled that the federal right to keep and bear arms applies to states and local levels of government. But, these conclusive results are not about to stop the Obama administration from its quest to subvert the Constitution via a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty designed to trump our rights.
Fortunately for us, the President cannot sign on to treaties without support of two-thirds of the Senate, and this time it won’t be close. With concern that domestic manufacture, possession, and sales of firearms and ammunition will be restricted in the U.S., twelve Democrat senators have teamed up with 45 Republicans in growing resistance to Obama’s international gun control scheme and have done so in writing.
In a letter written to Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, Republican Senator Jerry Moran wrote, “Our country’s sovereignty and the Second Amendment rights of American citizens must not be infringed upon by the United Nations,” Moran wrote. “Today, the Senate sends a powerful message to the Obama Administration: an Arms Trade Treaty that does not protect ownership of civilian firearms will fail in the Senate. Our firearm freedoms are not negotiable.”
You want bipartisanship without compromise? Even our Forefathers would be proud! When the bill of rights was being debated in state and federal legislatures over 200 years ago – and, with thousands of pages of published proceedings – the individual right to keep and bear arms was never an issue. The Federalists and Anti-federalists were unanimous in their support of individual rights.
In a July 26, 2011 letter to Obama and Clinton, Montana Democrat Senator Jon Tester sums it up this way: “As members of the United States Senate, it is our constitutional responsibility to advise and consent on the ratification of the United Nation’s Arms Trade Treaty. Before we could support ratification, we must have assurances that our concerns are adequately addressed and that the Treaty will not in any way impede upon the Constitutional rights of American gun owners. Anything short of this commitment would be unacceptable.”
This is not a Left or Right issue; it’s an American issue sure to give Obama’s voice of change a debilitating case of laryngitis.
