U.S. gun owners accuse U.N. of July 4 conspiracy

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/U_S_gun_owners_accuse_U_N_of_July_4_conspiracy.html?siteSect=143&sid=6834232&cKey=1150927708000

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Americans mistakenly worried the United Nations is plotting to take away their guns on July 4 -- U.S. Independence Day -- are flooding the world body with angry letters and postcards, the chairman of a U.N. conference on the illegal small arms trade said on Wednesday.

"I myself have received over 100,000 letters from the U.S. public, criticising me personally, saying, 'You are having this conference on the 4th of July, you are not going to get our guns on that day,'" said Prasad Kariyawasam, Sri Lanka's U.N. ambassador.

"That is a total misconception as far as we are concerned," Kariyawasam told reporters ahead of the two-week meeting opening on Monday.

For one, July 4 is a holiday at U.N. headquarters and the world body's staff will be watching a fireworks display from the U.N. lawn rather than attending any meetings, he said.

How IS it that people who are that stupid don't die because they forget to breathe?

Redstone

Unfortunately that's about the limit of their brainpower.

Redstone

Unbeliveable.

intelligence.

Now where did I put that asbestos overcoat?

why make it?

(But it's really itchy)
;)

drink lots of water. :D

These are the sort of cretins that should not have access to anything much sharper than Crayons muchless a firearm.

dipshits are actually running around saying The UN's gonna take our guns! The UN's gonna take our guns! The UN's gonna take our guns! The UN's gonna take our guns! The UN's gonna take our guns!"

Sigh...

Redstone

is this his response to recent comments from the UN.

in a neighboring city that reads "US out of UN: The UN wants your gun!"

The sign has been there for at least 5 years.

But then again I am a gun owner who loathes the NRA, so their conspiracy theory bullshit means nothing to me.

Sounds like LaPierre has been spending too much time on the PrisonPlanet site getting fitted for tinfoil beanies.

And I'm no fan of Heston but I echo his favorite line.

Heston Suggests `Lynching' As Appropriate Response to Al Gore's Gun Policy

WASHINGTON - October 20 -"Now, (Al Gore is) saying 'I'm with you guys on guns.' In any other time or place you'd be looking for a lynching mob." The crowd responded with "let's do it" and "I've got a rope." -- The Grand Rapids Press, October 17, 2000 quoting NRA president Charlton Heston and describing audience reaction.
Handgun Control released a new report today, "The Gun Lobby and Race: Thinly-Veiled Bigotry," revealing the extremist message of the gun lobby. The report shows a clear pattern of appealing to violence, racism and bigotry through National Rifle Association (NRA) official speeches and literature. Just this week NRA president Charlton Heston used words tinged with racist overtones. Despite often bragging of his presence at the 1963 March on Washington with Martin Luther King, thinly veiled hateful and racist arguments have been a staple of his public appearances for several years. In a 1997 speech titled "Fighting the Culture War in America," Heston provided some insight into the NRA's apparent message:

"Mainstream America is counting on you to draw your sword and fight for them. These people have precious little time to and resources to battle misguided Cinderella attitudes, the fringe propaganda of the homosexual coalition, the feminists who preach that it is a divine duty for woman to hate men, blacks who raise a militant fist with one hand while they seek preference with the other..."

Heston's words were even quoted on former Ku Klux Klan Wizard David Duke's Web site.
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check out this group.. www.huntersandshooters.com as an alternative

Or the other 17%. :evilgrin:

resistance is futile. While they are at it, they'll drink your beers, eat your barbecues and probably rape your women and daughters...

NRA people are nutcases...

helicopters, and two million blue-helmeted soldiers...and those soldiers, they're all BROWN PEOPLE, so they're DEFINITELY gonna want your (white) wimmen.

Redstone

They know better than to taunt a bunch of armed ignoramuses for their stupidity.

.. do they think this was going to happen? Black helicopters swooping down on every street, knocking on doors?

Theoretically, there isn't even a database of gun ownership. Were they going to bring in gun-sniffing dogs into everyone's home?

Jesus some people are stupid.

I'm a Democrat, liberal and the proud owner of many firearms.

Now we have 100,000 postcards sent by nearly illiterate cretins who believe some Internet nonsense from the NRA?

GAH!!!

This is what I get for NOT supporting the NRA and being a literate, thinking person who also happens to be a gun owner; I hadn't heard Peep ONE about either a conference or any conspiracy to take my gun.

I echo the earlier sentiments regarding morans and the autonomic nervous system; if their lungs relied on conscious thinking to run, these cretins would be extinct.

The source of this idiotic claim is NRA chairman Wayne LaPierre, by the way.

Like, if your not in Law Enforcement, you cant have a gun.

Пάλιν δ̀ὲ̀ του̑ Ξέρξου γράψαντος 'πέµψον τὰ ὅπλα' ἀντέγραψε 'µολὼν λαβέ'

(Plutarch, Moralia, III, Apophthegmata Laconica, "Sayings of Spartans")

but there is also a kernel of truth. The International Action Network on Small Arms, the NGO that has a great deal of influence on the agenda of the UN Conference on Small Arms, IS trying to put gun control on the table at the conference. FWIW, IANSA is the group that brought sweeping gun confiscation to Australia.

Here's what they have to say about the direction in which they wish to push the conference, from IANSA's own web site. Some relevant excerpts:

http://www.iansa.org/members/IANSA-media-briefing-low-res.pdf




And where they want this to go (again, excerpts):





I have no problem with the U.N. Conference on Small Arms, but I have a big problem with IANSA, and if IANSA brings these proposals to the table--as they clearly wish to do, since they attempted to do so at the last meeting--then yes, I would oppose it. IANSA did bring gun confiscation to Australia, and they have made it explicitly clear that they wish to accomplish the same thing here, using the Convention on Small Arms as a vehicle if they possibly can.