Norming Guns Away – Warning about the United Nations

Norming Guns Away: Warning about the United Nations
by Paul Gallant, Alan Chwick, and Joanne Eisen

United Nations Monument to Gun Control
United Nations Monument to Gun Control
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Scottsdale, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- We American gun-owners need to become more familiar with the process of “norming.”

The “norm” of civilian disarmament already surrounds our country and has the potential to nullify our Second Amendment right. When global firearm-prohibitionists speak about “norming,” they are actually discussing the process wherein society becomes increasingly hostile to the possession of arms in the hands of civilians.

This standard, or ‘norm,’ was deliberately created during several decades of lies about the safety and use of firearms, their benefits to society, and the kind of people who possess them.

And yet, we gun-owners remain unaware of its ramifications and its dangers.

During the creation of this norm, we have seen the prohibitionists lie time and time again, magnifying the costs to society of private firearm ownership, minimizing their benefits, and creating widespread fear in the process. We know we’re on the side of truth because we don’t need to manipulate the facts to fit our philosophy, as do the prohibitionists. In two decades of firearms research and experience, we have never seen a deliberate attempt by unbiased firearm researchers to obfuscate data.

The more people who accept the norm, the stronger the norm becomes.

Owen Greene of Saferworld, an anti-gun non-governmental organization (NGO), elaborated: “It is generally agreed that controls on possession by civilians of Small Arms and Light Weapons [SALW, an ambiguous group of weapons that includes ordinary firearms] are a critical element of national controls to prevent, combat, and reduce SALW trafficking, proliferation and misuse.”

Greene is secure in the knowledge that this norm already has extremely vigorous and widespread global support.

The new norm does not allow for self-defense, as government intends to provide that service for us. Even if one might actually comply with strict regulations and even if one might actually be permitted to keep his/her sporting gun at home, instead of being locked up at the local range, these guns will never be available for emergency use.

One of the most damning ramifications of the new norm is that those few remaining gun-owners will be looked upon with disdain.

This is the norm that is presently being codified into a global legally-binding Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that will encompass all conventional weapons.

It might be possible for our laws to be changed because of this treaty, even without a Presidential signature, or Senate ratification. The ATT is set to become the global norm, and the global firearm-prohibitionists would only need to wait for an opportune time to act. We expect that 175 of the approximately 200 nations in today’s world would sign onto the ATT. Although many of these nations will sign with no expectation of complying with its provisions, this will not affect the strength of the norm.

According to attorney Joseph Bruce Alonzo, “gun control laws could affect United States parties in the event that gun control becomes a customary international law [i.e. becomes a norm]…. Non consensual customary international law may arise as a result of international practice. This international practice may be evidenced by events not approved by the United States but eventually held binding on the United States.”

That’s how this norm, or soft law, has the potential to trump the Second Amendment.

John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, recognized the norming process, and rejected it as being destructive to our Constitution.

Expressing his displeasure, he wrote: “Much of the development of norming comes as a result of people who are dissatisfied with political outcomes they have achieved at the state and federal level and who are determined to take their argument into the broader international context, who see the norming process as the way to constrain the United States.”

There is another norm—our norm—which was bequeathed to us by our Founding Fathers.

Ed Laurence of the Monterey Institute of International Studies complained : “An opposing norm that favors continued high levels of arms sales—based on the belief that citizens have the “right” to buy guns for self-defense, self-determination, entertainment, or to provide for their families—is preventing the development of a global consensus on small arms policy.”

We are the last remaining hope for the sovereignty of individuals and the civilian possession of firearms.

U.S. civilians own about 270 million firearms, about 30% of the total global stockpile of 875 million firearms. But we estimate that only about 5 million people, out of approximately 70-80 million American gun-owners, have joined in one or more activist groups that have been formed to protect our right to private firearm ownership.

This simply is not enough. We must get gun-owners out of the closet and actively working hard with us.

How undamaged we and our rights emerge from this United Nations firestorm, that will engulf us for the next 5-10 years, depends upon how willing we all are to accept our responsibilities today.

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Paul Gallant

To Hank (and all others of this mindset): Perhaps instead of answering with an ignorant, short, uninformed opinion, you might benefit from reading the following: David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne D. Eisen, "The Arms Trade Treaty: Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Prospects for Arms Embargoes on Human Rights Violators," 114 Penn State Law Review 891 (2010). https://ssrn.com/abstract=1437204 David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant, & Joanne D. Eisen, :How Many Global Deaths from Arms? Reasons to Question the 740,000 Factoid Being Used to Promote the Arms Trade Treaty," NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Forthcoming https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i…… Read more »

JVS

Remember Krushove?

He said visiting NY City……..we destroy you from within!

Bob Sawyer

The people elected to the U.S.Congress take an oath to up-hold the same and to defend .."America from all Enemie's wether they be foreign or Domestic"… The 2 Senators from "Texas" are pro-gun and have defended the 2nd. Amendment on the Hill as my Congressman from Dist. 3 , Sam Johnson .

"WE THE PEOPLE".. failed by not demanding that the electors from every state uphold the U.S.CONSTITUTION prior to electing them to office ans to make provisions in their terms that should they fail to uphold any part of their oath they would be dismissed and re-placed !

Christopher Miles

I feel that the NRA, GOA, and all the pro gun organazations should

work toward getting rid of that wheel gun statue with the barrel tied in a knot at the united nations building in New York city.

After all. I find it totally offensive to my well being, and personnal safety.

Christopher Miles

All good people in all the states need to do what Iowans did this past election. Vote out the judges that think international law should be taken into consideration when ruling on a case. We got ride of three judges that disregarded the peoples will.

I have been saying for years that one should examine closely any lawyer that is running for an elected office. Most of them are commie socialists.

Also the people in each state should start defunding these universities and colleges that teach the hatetred toward this country.

Clint

I didn't even bother reading the whole article, (I might after I leave a comment, right now I'm too mad). I sent word to my State Representative about the ramifications that this treaty would have in this country. I also voiced my, and pretty much every red blooded LEGAL resident in this countrys opinion that any proposition, treaty, opinion, or whatever, comes from within the UN is without merit. This organization is full of nothing but third world tyrants that wish for nothing more than to make every person on this planet their puppet. I was assured by my State… Read more »

Stan

175 flee-bitten, mostly third world, dictator controlled nations signing the ATT? So what! Our Constitution trumps all and then some.

We need to inform obama and tell him he is to stop encouraging this UN movement. Yes, and get them the Hell out of New York and our business.

OMG, two more years of his regime.

Write him at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Dave

We need to do what was done this past election. Convince our government that We The People want the UN out of this country and out of our lives. They have no bussines trying to dictate what goes on in this country. We need to back out of the UN and get them the hell out of this country.

Hank

BS no treaty will override the US Constitution.