You realize that there is no way this passes in Tennessee, or any southern state for that matter.
The UN 2002:
The UN insisted that American gun owners had nothing to fear from the UNs efforts to restrict weapons ownership. However, on the following day, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan published an op ed in the International Herald Tribune that complained,
The world is flooded with small arms and light weapons numbering at least 500 million.... Most of these are controlled by legal authorities, but when they fall into the hands of terrorists, criminals and irregular forces, small arms bring devastation.
A UNICEF brochure struck a Clintonesque chord with its cover slogan: No Guns, Please We Are Children. A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) booth had a stash of free posters for attendees that featured a giant fireball consuming a pyre of rifles in a UN-orchestrated burning earlier last year in the Congo. The poster had in bright yellow print Promoting Development and in smaller white print Destroying Illicit Small Arms.
But then we already know what happened to the Christians of Rwanda when they surrendered their weapons, they sleep with the fishes.
This is just another step by the liberals, toward turning us into peasants like the Europeans.
Thankfully, Americans (most of us) are stronger willed, and have more backbone than the Europeans.
Let's hope you are right.
In 1929, The Soviet Union enacted gun control law Article 166 Penal Code. From 1929 to 1953, the Soviet Union killed 20 million Russian anti-Stalinists and anti-communists.
In 1928, on April 12, the German Republic enacted the Law on Firearms & Ammunition. In 1938, on March 18, they enacted the Weapons Law. From 1933 to 1945, the Germans killed 13 million German Jews, Gypsies and anti-Nazis.
In 1935, China enacted gun control law Articles 186-7, Penal Code. On October 22, 1957, China enacted the gun control law Article 9, Security Law. From 1949-1952, China killed her communists. From 1957-1960, China killed her farmers. From 1966-1976, China killed her reformers. All told, China killed 30 million Chinese.
In 1871, on November 25, Guatemala enacted gun control Decree 36. On October 27, 1964, Guatemala enacted gun control Decree 283. From 1960 to 1981, Guatemala killed 100,000 Mayan Indians.
In 1955, Uganda enacted the gun control Firearms Ordinance. In 1970, Uganda enacted the gun control Firearms Act. From 1971 to 1979, Uganda killed 300,000 Ugandan Christians and other political opponents to Muslim rule.
In 1956, Cambodia passed the gun control Articles 322-8, Penal Code. From 1975 to 1979, Cambodia killed one million educated Cambodians.
Governments have always proved themselves more capable of mass slaughter than any armed civilian population.
In 1968 the US enacted the Gun Control Act, which was almost verbatim of what the Nazis had enacted in Germany in 1938. What next??
I was every bit as sure that "English only" would pass easily in Nashville. The current political climate provs the adage " All that eveil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing".
I never thought most Australians would give up their firearms without a fight.
When I first heard that very soon after the Australian government had mandated that all guns would be registered and then shortly after wards would be banned entirely and after asking registered gun owners to turn their guns in, went house to house to confiscate registered or unregistered guns, I thought this couldn't be right, that surely couldn't happen.
But then I asked some Aussies about this and they told me it was so. There were two basic responses, the city dwellers saw no big problem with it, and those of the outback smiled and said; "you don't think we were fool enough to register our guns do you?"
Remember Ruby Ridge??? Remember why the US government was there??? Supposedly the people had large marijuana fields. How many marijuana plants were found??
ZERO!!
November 2000: (original author unknown)
Last August, Rodney William Ansell, the rugged Aussie whose real life exploits inspired the Crocodile Dundee movies, died in a shootout with Australian police who had come to confiscate his unregistered firearms. Oh, you didn't read about it in our free press? That's cause it never appeared.
A police sergeant was also killed in the incident; the number of "peace officers" injured while invading old 'Croc' in his natural domain is unknown, but likely he took down several. I don't mean to imply glee over the death and possible additional injuries; after all, they were "just doing their job" like the obedient Nazi's tried at Nuremburg.
Ansell had been named 1988 Australian Man of the Year for inspiring the movie and putting Australia on the Tourism Map." of particular interest to us here in the tourism dependent desert, Ansell was probably responsible for hundreds of millions of increased tourism dollars flowing into his beloved country. This is how his country repaid him. Because you see, in today's world, no good deed goes unpunished and no bad deed un-rewarded.
What motivated this shooting? In 1996, Australia adopted draconian gun control laws banning 60% of all firearms and requiring registration of all firearms and licensing of gun owners. As a result, Rod Ansell believed that police were coming to confiscate his unregistered firearms. In Australia today, police do not need a search warrant to enter your house and search for guns. Police can search door-to-door looking for unsurrendered weapons in their gun buyback program. They have been using previous gun registration and license lists to check for non-compliance and confiscate now illegal firearms.
Notes former California State Senator H.L. Richardson "They outlawed every semi-auto, even those pretty duck guns, pump shotguns and semi-auto hunting rifles.
"They didn't miss a one. In today's Australia, it is illegal for any citizen except officers to own even .22's and sporting shotguns designed for duck hunting."
The result? As in Great Britain, crime has escalated beyond belief! In the year following implementation of the law, Australia experienced a 44% increase in armed robberies, 8.6% Increase in assaults and an increase in homicides. In the state of Victoria there was a 300% increase in firearm homicides!!!l In South Australia, robberies increased 58%. Two years after the ban, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Armed robberies are up 73% and assaults are up 17%. By comparison, in the 25 years before the ban, Australia had a steady decrease both in firearm homicides and robberies. It is now a haven heaven for every criminal creep who knows there's little chance law-abiding citizens can defend themselves. The police can't prevent crime or protect & serve you until it's too late, - dead men and women can't dial 911.
In Australia today, self and family protection is not considered a valid reason to own a firearm. Australians used to be like Americans. They recognized the value of firearms. That is, until recently. In Australia, a basic human right has been outlawed and a noble way of life extinguished.
Leftist government implemented a draconian gun confiscation policy.
The anti-gun movement is the creature of the most radical leftist elements of the world wide socialist movement. The tactics are the same, with only slight propaganda alterations to fit each country. It's not surprising that the internationalist nose of the United Nations poked its way into the gun issue. The Sport Shooters Association of Australia stated that they had been "aware of a connection between the United Nations {UN} and Australia's new so-called 'national' gun laws."
Even if it were to pass, I don't see how they could enforce it.
I wonder how many billions of rounds are currently owned. Then there's people that reload as well.
They actually think people will "dispose" of whatever ammunition they have just because?
The premise is this, any 'progress' (advance of totalitarian socialism) today, will pay dividends in the next generation.
Not being able to make much headway in banning firearms in America, the UN has turned it's focus on limiting small arms ammunition. Sure there are those who reload, but that number is comparatively small and then the next logical step would be to cut out the supply of gunpowder etc.
