Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 16:50:48 -0400 From: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor) Subject: U.N. Trying to Confiscate U.S. Gun Rights by Paul M. Weyrich To: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
U.N. Trying to Confiscate U.S. Gun Rights by Paul M. Weyrich From the "Endangered Liberties" Television Program
One of the reasons I always thought the various proposals to move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States had merit has to do with the sorts of meetings which this outfit hosts on a regular basis. Come this July, every opponent of guns in the world, legitimate or illegitimate, will be descending on New York for a conference sponsored by the UN, aimed at pressuring the United States into giving up our Second Amendment to the Constitution. As Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association suggests, the UN lacks any enforcement authority to make that happen. But this conference will be the centerpiece of a global campaign by the media to try to shame the United States ino giving up her citizens' right to keep and bear arms.
LaPierre is absolutely correct about that. If you have seen any coverage of the subject you no doubt have seen glowing reports about how guns have been outlawed in English speaking countries such as Great Britain, Australia and Canada. The media compares gun deaths in those nations with gun deaths in this country and, of course, they look great by comparison.
What the media doesn't tell you is that deaths by other means have skyrocketed in these English speaking nations. Moreover, crime in general, while down in the United States significantly, is now up in the same proportions in those nations.
Much of the reduction in crime in this country can be attributed to concealed carry laws. With concealed carry, potential felons do not know who is and is not licensed to carry a gun in Virginia. In states without concealed carry laws, there has not been a comparable reduction in crime.
In any case, what our citizens, our legislators do about guns is our business. We do not need eople with no morality, who claim to be acting in the name of morality, telling this nation what to do.
Citizens need to talk about this conference now. We need to alert talk show hosts and other forums about what is coming. We need to be prepared to counter what is going to be an unprecedented campaign against guns. I don't own a gun. I've never wanted one. But I don't want the UN telling me or members of my family I can't have one. That is not their business. That is our business. The United Nations needs to be told once and for all to mind their own.
Paul Weyrich is president of the Free Congress Foundation
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