US Senate giving our constitutional rights to United Nations

[KWPSR]

We came four votes away from the U.S. Senate giving our Constitutional
rights over to the United Nations.

In a 53-46 vote, the Senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the
United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

The Statement of Purpose from the Bill reads:
"To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from
entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty."

The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has been championed by the Obama
Administration, would have effectively placed a global ban on the import
and export of small firearms.

The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S.
and had language that would have implemented an international gun registry
on all private guns and ammo.

Astonishingly, 46 out of our 100 United States Senators were willing to
give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power.

Here are the 46 senators who voted to give your rights to the U.N.
Baldwin (D-WI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennett (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Cowan (D-MA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hirono (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Udall (D-NM)
Udall (D-CO)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Folks: This needs to go viral. These Senators voted to let the UN take OUR
guns.

They need to lose their next election.
We have been betrayed.
46 Senators Voted to Give your 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights to the
U.N.

[jerkin]

We came four votes away from the U.S. Senate giving our Constitutional
rights over to the United Nations.

Wouldn't it have had to pass the House also? If so that's a lot more than 4 votes.

[ett]

Wouldn't it have had to pass the House also? If so that's a lot more than 4 votes.

Don't care if it still had to pass the house.
The point is that every one of these 46 jackasses need to be thrown out of office.
Personally I'd prefer they be brought up on treason charges for failure to honor their oath to uphold the Constitution.

[Metz]

And not a single republican. At least something they are doing right every now and then...

[Doomtrooper]

I do not understand this country, Anymore!!!

[TaePo]

Alexander Hamilton would flip out.

The US government does not have the right to uphold or deny the Second Amendment as it belongs to the citizens.

If one allows the government to uphold it, via the same logic you are stating that they have the power to remove it. It creates a supposition that they have the power to do so in their minds so that they may make a power grab for the right at a later time though they have no power to do so in the first place.

The US (at most) should explain the individual right and how it cannot be controlled by the government and therefore the US as a government could never fully honor the agreement internally.

[ett]

I do not understand this country, Anymore!!!

Neither do I.
But I'm now understanding what it must have been like to live in 1920's and 1930's Germany.

[Doomtrooper]

Neither do I.
But I'm now understanding what it must have been like to live in 1920's and 1930's Germany.

I could only imagine.

[tl_3237]

For clarification:

Treaty passage is done solely by the Senate:

Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, includes the Treaty Clause, which empowers the President of the United States to propose and chiefly negotiate agreements between the United States and other countries, which become treaties between the United States and other countries after the advice and consent of a supermajority of the United States Senate.

Currently passage would require an affirmative vote of 67 Senators.

[father-of-five]

For clarification:

Treaty passage is done solely by the Senate:



Currently passage would require an affirmative vote of 67 Senators.

^^^^ This, and the Constitution specifically states a 2/3 majority is needed for passage of such treaties.

I fully agree that elected officials need to be held responsible, but beware of scare tactics too. It was somewhat unlikely from the start that such a treaty would pass the Senate at this time, given the Constitutional requirements.