May 25, 2001

ALERT: July 9 Is Gun Burning Day at UN

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Common Sense

U.N. BURNS GUNS ON JULY 9: YOUR RIGHTS ARE NEXT
By Richard W. Stevens
Editor, "The Bill of Rights Sentinel"
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

It is "Small Arms Destruction Day" on July 9, 2001. Plans
are underway for government agents to ignite huge bonfires
of handguns, rifles and other firearms in major population
centers worldwide.

No joke.  The United Nations Conference on Small Weapons is
sponsoring  massive gun burnings on July 9 to mark the opening
in New York of the UN Conference on Illicit Trade in Small
Arms and Light Weapons.  Organizers of the Conference say "the
public destruction of weapons" is good because it "is one of
the best ways to attract attention" to global civilian
disarmament.

Whose guns will be burned?  Privately-held weapons that have
been captured or confiscated by governments, of course.  But
certainly not the guns held by governments and their armies,
police forces and death squads.

What Is Going On?

Having failed to rid the world of nuclear weapons, the UN
lately has been working to disarm the world's civilians.  
Going under the name of "reducing illicit trafficking in
light weapons and small arms," the UN's expressed goal is
to concentrate power into the hands of UN member governments:

*  A UN report in August 1999 recommended that "all small arms
  and light weapons which are not under legal civilian
  possession and which are not required for the purposes of
  national defense and internal security, should be collected
  and destroyed by States as expeditiously as possible."

*  Secretary-General Kofi Annan in April 2000 called for "non-
  proliferation of small arms," declaring that "these weapons
  must be brought under the control of states."

*  A UN Committee of Governmental Experts in March 2001
  recommended that all nations install centralized "gun
  control" with detailed record-keeping and prohibitions
  against selling "small arms" to anyone except other
  governments.

Make no mistake: when the UN refers to "small arms," it means
rifles and handguns.  In our Second Amendment, the word "arms"
means, at the very least, "small arms."  The UN program thus
directly infringes our Second Amendment.

Americans: your right to keep and bear arms will soon face a
united world of enemies. Even the so-called human rights
advocates Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have
joined forces with the regimes of Cambodia, Colombia, Zimbabwe,
Syria and Iraq to press for world "gun control" at the July 9
Conference.  Do you really think the current U.S. government
or the Supreme Court will defend the Second Amendment against
the UN?

Three Propaganda Points

The international victim disarmament forces focus on three
talking points.  First, they treat firearms as the cause of
war, violence, unrest, and crime.  In their advocacy papers,
they actually blame the guns, not the aggressors or the evil
ideas. They stand with activist doctor groups who claim
firearms are a "public health menace."

Second, the victim disarmers follow the morally bankrupt idea
that armed conflict is always wrong.  They cannot tell the
difference between a good government and an evil government,
or between aggression and self-defense.  Armed defense is
morally right and is a moral duty under the Judeo-Christian
tradition and under the non-religious philosophy of natural
law.  The victim disarmers never distinguish between oppression
and righteous self-protection.

Third, the anti-small arms forces say they are only going
after "illegal" or "illicit" possession of firearms.  They
urge governments to confiscate and destroy all firearms that
are owned illegally.  Who defines what is illegal?  The UN's
member governments: Red China, Iraq, Colombia, and the dozens
of other oppressive and/or corrupt regimes, many of whom
obtained power by force, not election.

What It All Means -- Your Next Move

Future UN action may well declare American gun owners to be
criminals.  If your gun is too big, too small, too powerful,
too accurate or too ugly, it may be deemed dangerous to world
peace and thus illegal.  If you reload your own ammunition or
fix guns, you may be deemed an illicit trafficker in small arms.

Get smart, gun owners, and get moving!  Every gun owner must
fully grasp this looming threat to our rights as Americans.  
Use the powerful Gran'pa Jack booklet "The UN is Killing Your
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UN endangers most of the rights Americans take for granted --
most especially the gun rights.  Distribute copies of this
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every gun club in America.

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The Viet Nam war ended at my age 15.  I thought I had missed my "opportunity" at armed conflict.  I find this type of BS very scary.  At least we won't have to travel half wa around the world for this one.  Certainly something to think about . . . [:(]

Hmmmmm, just how do you think "they" would go about disarming the American citizenry?