U.N. wants global ban on guns By Gina Parker

Acclaimed actor James Earl Jones summarized it best when he commented, “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.” 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.

As Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association stated, “This fight is about more than firearms ownership. This is a fight for our national sovereignty, our individual freedoms and the future of our nation.”

One organization leading the unprecedented movement to ban guns throughout the world is the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA). Its director, Rebecca Peters, has ridiculed the idea of women being permitted to own guns for protection against violent attacks. Ridiculing Americans as paranoid, Ms. Peters stated, “I think that eventually, Americans will realize that their obsession with arming themselves in fear, in a paranoid belief that they're going to be able to stave off the ills of the world through owning guns, through turning every house into an arsenal, eventually Americans will go away from that.”

It should not be left to the communist country of Cuba, the terrorist-sponsoring nation Libya, or Sudan - the only country in the world that still allows slavery - to decide whether Americans have the right to bear arms. This summer in the United States, however, these nations, along with others who not only harbor terrorists, but also decry American freedoms, will be drafting the “Treaty on Small Arms” in New York.

As Adolf Hitler warned his fellow fascists, “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.”

The Founders of America knew that fact long before Hitler's tyrannical regime, but the founding fathers had confidence and faith in the power of freedom and self-government to lead us to a better, stronger society than pure force could ever accomplish. James Madison noted this in the Federalist, No. 46: “[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation [where] the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

Madison's words are still true today considering the majority of the 100 nations supporting the U.N. gun ban have nothing comparable to the Bill of Rights - they do not support freedom, they do not support self-government, and they cannot comprehend the liberties our troops protect every day in America.

“We the People” must stop the U.N. gun ban, and I would encourage you to join me by supporting the NRA's “Shot Heard ‘Round the World on the 4th of July.” For more information, please visit www.stopungunban.org/, and as the NRA states, “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.”

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Gina Parker is a practicing attorney and CEO of Dental Creations, a dental product manufacturing company.