The UN assembly voted 154 to 3 to adopt the treaty. There were 23 abstentions, including from major arms traders.
Arms traders object to the very laws that North Korea, Iran and Syria object to. Those are interesting bedfellows.
The caption to the picture should be the title of the article.
In landmark vote, UN forges first global arms treaty (click here
North Korea, Iran, and Syria oppose new restriction.
By Colum Lynch
WASHINGTON POST
APRIL 03, 2013
UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to create the first international treaty regulating the global arms trade, a landmark decision that imposes new constraints on the sale of conventional arms to governments and armed groups that commit war crimes, genocide, and other mass atrocities.
The UN vote was hailed by arms-control advocates and scores of governments, including the United States, as a major step in the global effort to enforce basic controls on the $70 billion international arms trade. But it was denounced by Iran, North Korea, and Syria for imposing restrictions that prevent smaller states from buying and selling weapons to ensure their self-defense.
The treaty covers a wide range of conventional weapons, including battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, missiles, and small arms. (Yes, that means guns.) These items could not be transferred to countries under UN arms embargoes or to states that promote genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.
The United States, which cosponsored the treaty, said several US agencies will conduct a review before the accord is presented to President Obama for signature. The treaty would require ratification by the Senate.
What did the NRA say about it? The OLD thing they say about EVERYTHING to protect the profits of gun manufacturers.
The National Rifle Association contended during negotiations that the treaty would weaken Second Amendment gun rights in the United States. The powerful gun lobby has pledged to fight the treaty’s ratification in the Senate....
How does that happen in the USA? All of a sudden a United Nations treaty weakens the Second Amendment, that is a lie. It is a complete and solidly untruthful statement. That statement by the NRA only clarifies the way the NRA views the Second Amendment.
The NRA covets the Second Amendment for the benefit of gun profits and not citizen lives and rights. The NRA covets the Second Amendment so gun manufacturers can sell guns illegally in numbers that make no sense at all. The Second Amendment in the NRA rhetoric has no basis in fact. The fact of the matter is the people of the USA have the right to regulate guns and ban those causing deaths in the USA. That is a fact through the Supreme Court of the USA by the most extremist conservative judge on the bench.
So, let's get this right. Every time ANYTHING in the world effects gun sales to manufacturers LaPierre at the NRA screams "Second Amendment, USA." He is a liar and he could not care less about the lives of citizens ANYWHERE.
