Right to Bear Arms?- Watch your back!

As with all things Obama, watch your back- it's what the media isn't talking about that you need to pay attention to. Right now, the Nobel Prize winning world citizen and constitutional scholar, and his minions, are working hard behind the scenes to gut the Second Amendment.

The arms control folks at the United Nations have been working on a new treaty called the Arms Trade Treaty, and they are trying hard to get it ready to present in 2012. That puts it in front of the Senate in an election year, when the liberal leaders of the Senate may be anxious to prove to their constituency that they are acting on the concerns of their base. The liberal base does not boast a great number of gun enthusiasts.

You may also hear this referred to as the Small Arms Treaty, but its scope really goes beyond that, as it regulates the sale and transfer of all conventional weapons and ammunition. "Conventional" means any non-nuclear weapon, from aircraft carriers all the way down to little .22 caliber pistols one might use to plink cans with. In its implementation, this treaty could become the excuse the UN is seeking to control the arms of any compliant military. China and Russia now seem to be onboard with this treaty, so one wonders what they will interpret "compliant" to mean.

Proponents of the treaty claim that they intend to set international standards for the weapons trade, and they only want to control illegal weapons trade. However, this treaty may well allow the UN to define what is legal, and the left-leaning globalists at the UN may not care much about some supposed "right" to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution. Besides that, there is also a question of whether the illegal trade can be controlled if the legal trade is not also.

No treaty like this should be acceptable to any American; should it come before the Senate, it should be rejected. Even if you are an ardent supporter of gun control, you should not be in favor of end-running the Constitutional rights of Americans. If a treaty can be used to gut the Second Amendment, another treaty can be used to gut other rights as well. All American's rights are jeopardized and weakened if treaties can bypass our Constitution.