Global gun grab update.In early July, the UN convened the first (take a deep breath) Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. This preposterously titled meeting was a follow-up to the 2001 UN conference on small arms small arms, firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Early Small ArmsThe first small arms came into general use at the end of the 14th cent. Initially they were nothing more than a small cannon held in the hands, fired by placing a lighted match at the touchhole; later a stock was added., which created a framework for civilian disarmament worldwide in the name of controlling so-called illicit weapons. As documented in the 2000 UN propaganda film Armed to the Teeth: The World-Wide Plague of Small Arms, the UN considers all civilian-owned firearms firearm, device consisting essentially of a straight tube to propel shot, shell, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder. Although the Chinese discovered gunpowder as early as the 9th cent., they did not develop firearms until the mid-14th cent. By that time, firearms, particularly in the form of heavy cannon, were in general use in Europe and Asia Minor. With such firearms, the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople. From the 15th cent. to be illicit by definition. In his millennium report We the Peoples, Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared: "Controlling the proliferation of illicit weapons is a necessary first step toward the non-proliferation of small arms. These weapons must be brought under the control of states, and states must be held responsible for their transfer." According to Kuniko Inoguchi, who chaired the most recent UN small arms conference, more than 90 nations had complied with UN demands by passing new "gun control" laws designed to disarm their civilian populations. The primary target of the UN small arms agenda, of course, is the American gun-owning population. Former Congressman Bob Barr, who attended the conference as a delegate on behalf of the State Department, commented on the July 16th edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country program: "I listened to day after day after day of tirades by member nations and the UN bureaucrats.... And their agenda truly is--and they make no bones about it--to begin a process of an internationally binding system of regulating and registering firearms and eventually to outlawing all civilian use of firearms and possession of firearms in all member nations." Addressing New York Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner, who appeared on the program to defend the UN's agenda, Barr observed: "The [UN] documents make clear that they ... are trying to take away guns from you and your constituents." |
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