The UN is having a party next week. Since there is a good chance that if you are reading this you are US taxpayer you will undoubtedly be pleased and proud to know that this status entitles you to foot the bill for the lion’s share of the shindig. It begins on July 9th. It will be a theme party and a grand time is anticipated by all. The theme will be "Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons." The Small Arms Soiree will be held in the UN’s home city of New York. That happens to be my home city too. I got out and I wish they would too.
As always, the UN is looking out for you and me and the rest of the "little guys" in the world being as how they are above feathering their own nest with more power, perks and property. They simply want to protect us from "illicit" arms. "Illicit" is an interesting word in that you cannot really say what it means until you know what is "licit." The UN, being the well intentioned expert body, gets to decide what "licit" means and there’s the rub. Really, there is the first rub. There are many and most of them rub me the wrong way.
There is also the matter of defining the "small" in "small arms" and the "light" in "light weapons." As far as I can tell those words mean any firearm that you or I might possibly own. At least that is where it will start. It could probably be expanded to mean swords, pikes, bows and arrows, slingshots and your Swiss Army knife as well but give them time. An elitist cabal has to start somewhere, after all. World government wasn’t built in a day, you know.
The party is all for a good cause. I’ll bet you can guess what it is if you will give it a moment’s thought. That right! It’s for the children! The UN’s web site will tell you, "Hundreds of thousands of children have been among the victims of small arms." The small matter of child victims of government bombs and policies remains UN-addressed. Different party, I guess. And the people who have earned their freedom and protected their own lives and the lives of others with small arms never get invited to these UN parties anyway. Just not "A List" caliber (oops, poor word choice).
Naturally, there will be games at the party. One highlight is expected to come when the pre-feudal third world dictatorships and the Euro-socialists form a conga line and attempt to define "internationally recognized standards and provisions regarding marking, record keeping and import / export control of firearms." Won’t that be great? The UN-elected, UN-accountable, UN-believably self-righteous UN will tell us how to make our guns, how we will have to track them and how, where, when and to whom we can sell them. I can see why they are so excited! It’s good to be King Kofi.