Jason Howerton @ The Blaze:
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Tuesday vowed to use every means necessary to fight the “dangerous” United Nations global arms treaty that was overwhelmingly approved by the General Assembly on Tuesday.
Speaking to a group of reporters on a conference call, Abbott warned that the arms treaty “raises a red warning flag to anyone concerned about the liberties guaranteed to all Americans under the United States Constitution.”
“That flag was raised when the United States agreed to the passage of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty,” he added. “This treaty is a dangerous threat, not only to Second Amendment rights under the United States Constitution, but also erodes our constitutional liberties by placing more of the control of those liberties in the hands of bureaucrats at the United Nations.”
Abbott said he sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday urging the Obama administration to take the appropriate action. However, the Texas attorney general expressed doubt that the administration would actually oppose the implementation of the treaty in the U.S. because it announced that it was pleased with the treaty’s passage.
Additionally, Abbott said Secretary of State John Kerry insinuated the arms treaty is implementable in the United States. Kerry on Tuesday applauded the “strong, effective and implementable Arms Trade Treaty that can strengthen global security while protecting the sovereign right of states to conduct legitimate arms trade.”
Warning that the global arms agreement could possibly be ratified and imposed on Americans, Abbott said the treaty would only need to be accepted by President Barack Obama and then ratified by the Democrat-controlled Senate with a two-thirds vote. “I don’t think the Obama administration would’ve voted for this, would be coming up this day so strongly in support of it if he thought he didn’t have a chance of getting the U.S. Senate to pass it, or ratify it,” he said.
Should the Senate actually ratify the U.N. Arm Trade Treaty, Abbott said he would be forced to take swift and certain legal action to “shut down this unconstitutional treaty.”
In addition to regulating military weaponry like battle tanks and armored combat vehicles, Abbott argued the treaty also looks to regulate small arms and light weapons, among various other types of weapons.
I might be mistaken but I thought any laws passed by the UN must be ratified by 3/4 of the states. Regardless the UN does not trump the Constitution.
THIS IS DANGEROUS, YES TEXAS ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT TO BE CONCERNED,
IT SEEMS that TEXAS is always the first one to locate the rat
and see the danger of sceiding AMERICA’s FOUNDAMENTAL’s RIGHTS
and we know OBAMA is exited with all the UN decide to do, he will approve
he did it before, and don’t get concerned with rights being taken over,
he want the GLOBAL UNION in AMERICA,I was expecting this to come in PUBLIC knowledge,
when I read a NEWS from CANADA, previously, mentioning the UN limit date to have them give them the weapons list
with THEIR OWN REGISTRATION NUMBERS THEY WHERE GIVEN PREVOUSLY,
the journalist was saying that they where rushing to meet the limit date,
I did not like to read that CANADA would do it.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT fools
you want to harass the GERMAN FAMILY FOR THEIR WISH TO HOME SCHOOLING THEIR KIDS, and you are threatening them?
shame on you, remember that kids are not secure yet in public schools
that family came not for that, but to find the freedom which AMERICA promises,
do you have a problem with that?
don’t you have anything more important to do?
do you want a list from us?
one more dangerous thing
NORTH KOREA could be playing the IRAN ULTIMATE CARD,
to have the AMERICANS coming close to them
so to encircle them into an all out MIDDLE-EAST WAR,
ALREADY FIX AND PLANNED USING NORTH KOREA,
can you see RUSSIA jumping in at some point when they find OBAMA helping SYRIA rebels, we know they protect SYRIA
along with IRAN.