(article 2) International Firearm Abolitionists Prepare to Draft Arms Trade Treaty

National Rifle Association

This article I read was published on March 23, 2012. It is about how it is the time of year where the the International activists and the representatives of various countries' governments come to the United nations, and there intent being on changing the world. The people there have a exaggerated sense of self importance and they are obsessed with controlling the planet and everyone who lives in it. These arrogant people check in to five star hotels in the West's most cosmopolitan cities and tax payers and left wing foundations of the first world countries picking up the tab to attend conferences during which they discuss curtailing national and individual rights that offend their sensibilities. As a fair review of their history would reveal, during the Cold War, "useful idiot" advocates for nuclear disarmament by the U.S., Britain and France (but not the USSR, of course) thrived within the U.N. and a host of "non-governmental organizations" (NGOs) that lobbied it, but found themselves crusaders without a crusade after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. In short order, they found a new raison d'etre in "land mines." But the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention of 1999, otherwise known as the Ottawa Treaty--since ratified by a majority of the world's countries--rendered the land mine issue largely passé.