Hair trigger Texans think UN wants their guns

The Navasota Examiner & Grimes County Review, a Texan paper not renowned for it's liberal perspective has hit new heights with this opinion piece published yesterday.

Gina Parker, apparently a practicing attorney and CEO of Dental Creations, "a dental product manufacturing company," writes a scathing attack on the UN's "global guns ban."

If only the UN was actually seeking a global guns ban.

The conference that has Parker and the NRA so riled up is the United Nation's Small Arms Review Conference, which is currently underway in New York and, far from seeking to create a "global gun ban treaty," the conference is meeting to review progress made in the implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. This is a far cry from seeking to ban all small arms - note the prominent use of the term illicit.

Funnily enough, Parker quotes actor James Earl Jones (whom I have now lost all respect for) as saying:

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.

One wonders why Jones isn't supporting the UN in it's efforts to "prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms." Unless he and his fellow "libertarians" are concerned that if the criminals can no longer get hold of weapons the NRA's core justification for the propagation of violence would disappear - and that just wouldn't be any fun.

Possibly my favourite bit of Parker's article (though it is hard to pick one favourite there's so much hilarity in this schlock) comes next:

Although that concept seems quite clear to most Americans, the United Nations has failed to grasp its obviousness and is quickly moving towards a global gun ban.

The scariest thing is that, in her state at least, she's in the majority.

The NRA has, of course, come out screaming about the conference. They even have a new website dedicated to rousing gun lovers to raise their voices in "a Shot Heard 'Round the World on the 4th of July." Saying:

If millions of gun owners speak with one thundering voice of outrage, we'll stop the global gun ban treaty before it destroys our firearm freedoms.

Ironically, as the 4th of July is a national holiday in the US, the conference will be taking the day off and the NRA protesters will be howling at an empty building. The website is so good I just have to give you a sample. Right on the front page is an excerpt from a speech given by Wayne LaPierre, The NRA's Executive Vice President. It's pure gold:

This 4th of July, while you and your family celebrate the 230th Anniversary of the founding of our great nation, there's one party you won't be invited to...

...And that's the party that Kofi Annan is throwing at United Nations headquarters in New York — using your tax dollars — for nearly fifty dictatorships, six terrorist states, governments that endorse execution based on religious faith, and a multitude of other nations from around the globe.

You see, this party isn't to honor your freedoms -- but to conspire to take them away. That's right. Over our 4th of July holiday, while taps is played at Arlington National Cemetery to honor Americans who have sacrificed their lives for freedom...

...These dictatorships, terrorist states and so-called "free" nations of the world plan to meet on our home soil to finalize a U.N. treaty that would strip all citizens of all nations of their right to self-protection, and strip you of your rights under the Second Amendment.

Before one word falls from their lying lips about our country and our freedoms, I want them to hear from America's 80 million gun owners and YOU.

God bless America.

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