It’s already against the law to commit violent acts against innocent civilians. More laws and/or treaties won’t help. Allowing civilians to defend themselves is the only effective way for civilians to be protected. Just the opposite of what the U.N. bigots are trying to accomplish:
Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) are pushing for a treaty to “protect civilians from armed violence.”
Those three groups — which have formed a coalition called the Control Arms Campaign — say their goal is to reduce arms proliferation and misuse — “and to convince governments to introduce global principles to regulate the transfers of weapons.” They are urging the United Nations to impose a “binding arms trade treaty.”
These guys want guns to remain in the hands of the governments. And governments were the biggest perpetrators of violence against innocents in the last century and I expect they will be in this century too. The right to keep and bear arms is an inalienable right. It can only be infringed, not granted or denied.
Alan Gottlieb, of course, gets in right (in the same article):
Had it not been for America, all of Europe might be speaking German. Were America not the ‘great arsenal of democracy’ that President Franklin D. Roosevelt described in 1940, the world would be a far different place, and the sanctimonious bureaucrats at the U.N. might instead be working in labor camps.
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We have done much for the U.N., and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself.