World Gun Sovereigns will continue to seek to paralyze U.N. arms control treaties

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As with so much else that Republican Right wingers and Libertarians do, the truth or falsehood of any U.N. treaty is not the point of their activity on this subject. The point of their NRA corporate personhood activities on behalf of INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ARMS MARKETS, and hence, PRIVATE WAR PROFITEERING is much more likely the result of things like Mali's gold resources than it is the result of Republican respect for human rights and freedom at home and abroad.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/22/488063/two-gop-congressmen-propose-real-bill-to-fight-fake-united-nations-guns-treaty/

For at least the last two years, far right groups have opposed an imaginary treaty which, in the words of the John Birch Society, would “cede control of private Americans’ small arms ownership and use to the United Nations.” This treaty does not exist. Snopes described reports of such a treaty as “scarelore.” ThinkProgress debunked Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) attempt to fundraise off this imaginary treaty more than a year ago. PolitiFact rejected claims that any UN treaty will limit Second Amendment rights as recently as last week.