NRA opposes U.N. small-arms treaty

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-nra-square-off-over-small-arms-treaty/2013/03/16/ae495dae-8d76-11e2-b63f-f53fb9f2fcb4_story.html?hpid=z1

The National Rifle Association, which is battling a raft of gun control measures on Capitol Hill, also has an international fight on its hand as it gears up to oppose a U.N. treaty designed to restrict the flow of arms to conflict zones.

Negotiations open Monday in New York on the Arms Trade Treaty, which would require countries to determine whether weapons they sell would be used to commit serious human rights violations, terrorism or transnational organized crime.

The gun lobby fears that the treaty would be used to regulate civilian weapons. Human rights activists counter that it would reduce the trafficking of weapons, including small arms such as the ubiquitous AK-47 assault rifle, to outlaw regimes and rebel groups engaged in atrocities against civilian populations.

“This treaty is a common-sense alignment of the interests of governments, law-abiding citizens and individuals all over the world, who deserve the right to live free from harm,” said Michelle A. Ringuette, chief of campaigns and programs at Amnesty International USA. “Any step toward restraining the illicit sale and transfer of weapons used to commit horrific crimes is a good move forward, and the world could use a lot more steps in the direction of ending human rights abuses.”

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1. I got Google to squash the ads by the "National Ass. of Gun Rights" opposing this treaty.

They had this ugly graphic that looked like a gun graticule over Secretary of State Clinton's head.

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2. How else would all these people die in places like Jamaica

The NRA has a job to do - allow people to kill as long as they can sell weapons anywhere.
Last week Susan Collins said she wants Jamaicans extradited for ripping off the gullible via the lotto scam. What about reciprocal laws allowing us to extradite US citizens who facilitate the deaths of so many Jamaicans.
We don't make one effin gun here.

Note - I do not support those scumbags involved in ripping off old people.

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3. nra doesn't care about human rights, their concern is for gun rights, nothing else.

nra = fuck humans