United States Should Shoot Down U.N. Small Arms Treaty

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United States Should Shoot Down U.N. Small Arms Treaty

by H. Sterling Burnett

National Center for Policy Analysis

December 15, 2010

Brief Analysis

The Obama administration recently appointed a negotiator to work with the United Nations on a treaty to regulate international trade in small arms. The ostensible goal is to staunch the flow of illegal weapons to drug cartels, terrorists and guerillas. If the United Na¬tions is put in charge of U.S. gun policy, American sovereignty will be reduced with no corresponding decrease in international violence. The biggest killers of people have been governments and their surrogate militias, not individual citizens. Indeed, before every attempted or successful genocide, those in power disarm the group targeted for extinction, aided by laws requiring firearm licensing and registration.



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