Kofi Annan: UN not to take U.S. guns away

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New York - A renewed controversy erupted Friday before next week's UN conference on small arms and light weapons, as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan insisted organization has no plan to take away Americans' right to bear arms.

The US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, charged that the conference may infringe on Americans' constitutional right to bear weapons.

He vowed to defend that right when the two-week conference opens on Monday, saying that some UN members may have a 'larger agenda' aimed at the US Constitution's Second Amendment, which protects the right to own weapons.

'The message is clear: to the extent that there is a larger different agenda dealing with domestic gun control issues in the US, I don't think that it's an appropriate forum to discuss that,' Bolton said.

'There's nothing further from the truth,' Annan shot back. The officials spoke to reporters separately at UN headquarters in New York.

'It's legitimate that the UN, as an organization of sovereign states, to have concern about the welfare of people and want to do something about and bring order to small arms,' Annan said.

'We are not out to take guns away from the Americans, the intention is to make sure that guns don't get into the wrong hands,' Annan said.

Bolton, who led the US delegation to the 2001 UN conference on small arms and light weapons, said the US position this year around would be 'essentially the same.' The US delegation included a representative from the National Rifle Association, a strong pro-gun lobby group.

The conference was called to review progress made in the past five years to curb the lucrative trade in illicit weapons, which amounts to a quarter of the annual 4-billion-dollar global trade of firearms. Illicit weapons are those not registered by law by the government.

The UN said small arms and light weapons have been responsible for up to 90 per cent of deaths in conflicts around the world. Those weapons are preferred by drug smugglers, organized crime and gangs.

Small arms include hand guns, pistols, rifles, sub-machine guns, mortars, grenade and light missiles while light weapons include heavy machine guns, mounted grenade launchers, anti-tank guns and portable anti-aircraft guns.

A small arms survey by Switzerland said those weapons killed between 80,000 and 108,000 people in conflicts in 2003 and inflicted an estimated 200,000 non-conflict deaths each year.

© 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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...and we know that the UN has always been honest and above-board...

The UN has as much say in the US as we allow it to.
 
Yeah, if that's the case, then let's have them put it in writing and we'll sign that treaty. I'm all for an "agreement" with the UN that they will NEVER infringe on Americans' RKBA. You think ole Kofi will go for that?
 
Kofi changed his tune???

Musta been the postcard I sent him sugesting he get his immoral, ineffective, corrupt organization out of my country and where he should roast for all eternity:evil:
 
'We are not out to take guns away from the Americans, the intention is to make sure that guns don't get into the wrong hands,' Annan said.
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The "wrong hands" being those of civilians...
 
Kofi Annan

His statement "Its legitimate that the UN, as an organization of sovereign states, to have concern about the welfare of people..." says it all.

They have not been concerned in years past.
 
Sure, they don't want to take away guns... they just want to regulate small arms. You know like these small arms:

UN said:
Small arms include hand guns, pistols, rifles
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And even though the proposed 2001 agenda blatantly indicated that they planned to attack legal aspects of ownership of such weapons, Annan is at least correct that the 2006 agenda won't include that and probably for the same reasons that the 2001 agenda ultimately did not include it - the United States shot it down.
 
The "wrong hands" would mean civilians who might use small arms against kleptocrats like the Annan family and their corrupt cohorts who keep Africa poor and the conflicts brewing...

I have a higher opinion of dog**** than I do of Kofi Annan.

BTW is it necessarily a bad thing that 100,000 people were killed by small arms? I'd say it depends on who was killed.

If a rapist is shot before he can rape, that's a death to celebrate, not one to prevent.
 
just think of it this way. those silly blue hemets are real clear targets should it come to that :evil:
 
Illicit weapons are those not registered by law by the government.
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so i guess all my guns that don't have $200 stamps associated with them are "illicit"
 
taliv...

Were I you I'd prepare to kiss those $200 stamps bye-bye... just hide the *ware.

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baghdadbobunguns0ad.jpg

hey so I was bored.... :D
 
As a "strange but true" possibility... any overt UN action against the 2nd A could, due to the uproar, finally get the SOCUS to affirm the 2nd as what it says it is.

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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan insisted organization has no plan to take away Americans' right to bear arms
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+ 1 geekWithA.45.

Molon Labe Kofi! Make our Day you pathetic third world corrupt canker on the world's a**!

Send your boy Kojo, too.


BTW, does anyone know which third world backwater sewer Kofi and Kojo crawled out of?
 
The UN said small arms and light weapons have been responsible for up to 90 per cent of deaths in conflicts around the world. Those weapons are preferred by drug smugglers, organized crime and gangs.
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...not to mention they're preferred by every genocidal government, secret police force, and blue-helmet.
 
Kofi missed his calling

He should have been a comedian. :rolleyes:
Seriously though, of course the UN won't be coming for US citizen's guns.

They'll ask a compliant, UN subordinate US government to do that job.
Making sure that government is never elected is our job this fall, and every other fall.
 
They are never going to take your guns quickly at your door........they will do what the United States politicians do....and that is to regulate them out of existence. The thousand cuts method.

There is no reason why a law-abidding citizen of Minnesota should not be able to own a silencer, an MP-5 or any gun of any size.


I can own a handgun in any caliber but By God I cant be trusted with a rimfire rifle that is less than 26 inches without being first treated like a crminal by getting fingerprints taken etc.(which I dont trust the Feds having)
its ridiculous and makes NO sense....but land of the free......let go here NRA, GOA move on this issue.

ok ranting is over.....
 
If Kofi thinks that it is OK for Americans to have small arms, but not the rest of the the world, then he must be a racist. Thinking that it is OK for "civilized" Americans, but not for the African/Asian/Latin American massess is just wrong. They deserve the same God given rights to self-protection that we do.

Don't believe him, his type would like nothing better than to enslave the world.
 
Kofi is from Ghana

Ghana

ya that podwer blue is purdy... :evil:

hopefully Bolton still has his testis and says Hell no! just in case - buy more ammo
 
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