Surprise,Surprise,Surprise! John Bolton is a whore for the NeoconRifleAssn

[billbuckhead]

2 perspective on the wife abusing, employee abusing, UN undermining gun wacko the Neocons want in the UN. Birds of a feather, flock together. RBKA extremists and the Neocon agenda.

"Vote on Pro-gun Nominee Bolton is Coming Soon

The vote is coming soon, and it's going to be close.

The vote in question is on John Bolton, whom President Bush nominated to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The Senate has twice put off a vote on his nomination, but Capitol Hill insiders expect
the final vote will come as early as next week.

The anti-gunners in the Senate have tried everything they can to derail his nomination. Bolton is EXTREMELY pro-gun and has a record of opposing UN tyrants who wish to impose gun control on our country.

<http://www.aagunsales.com/News/Vote%20on%20Pro-gun%20Nominee%20Bolton%20is%20Coming%20Soon>
Brady Campaign Statement on Bush Administration's Position on U.N. Small Arms Conference

WASHINGTON - July 13 - Michael D. Barnes, president of the Brady Campaign and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, issued the following statement today regarding the Bush Administration's position on the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade of Small Arms and Light Weapons:
"The Bush Administration should be ashamed of its blatant pandering to the National Rifle Association. It was quite evident by Under Secretary John Bolton's plenary address to the U.N. Conference that the White House is kowtowing to the NRA yet again, by sounding false alarms about the conference as a threat to legal gun ownership. If there was ever any doubt that the NRA is working out of the White House -- as an NRA official promised if Bush were President -- there certainly shouldn't be any now.

"The goal of this conference is to address the illegal trade of firearms -- trade that supplies crime syndicates, drug traffickers, and warlords engaged in conflicts and terrorizing citizens around the world. Conference documents explicitly state that no proposals will affect legal gun ownership, nor will they affect a nation's own gun laws. Yet the Bush State Department has decided to play the obstructionist by throwing up the spectre of international agreements made at the conference as a threat to private gun ownership in the United States.

"Tellingly, Congressman Bob Barr, an NRA Board member and one of the gun lobby's most faithful yes-men in Congress, was invited by the State Department to serve as a member of the U.S. delegation to this conference, even as Mr. Bolton denies any NRA involvement in the government's position. In the June 2001 issue of its publication, America's First Freedom, the NRA sounds warning bells about the U.N. Conference as 'A Worldwide Threat to Gun Owners,' claiming that 'Gun owners (also) have reason to be concerned about the United Nations' long-term effort to turn private gun ownership into the moral equivalent of child pornography.'

"Such extremist rhetoric is to be expected of the NRA, an organization whose leadership demonizes federal law enforcement officers as 'jack-booted thugs' and considers governments as 'hostile to permitting citizens to own the means to resist political power.' The NRA has shown a callous disregard for the devastation caused by firearms here in the U.S. -- why should we expect it to care about deaths elsewhere? It is appalling however, that our own government should buy into the NRA's paranoid delusions. Once again, Mr. Bush needs to be reminded that the office he holds is supposed to serve the people of the United States, not the narrow, alarmist views of the NRA."

As the largest national, non-partisan, grassroots organization leading the fight to prevent gun violence, the Brady Campaign and the Brady Center are dedicated to creating an America free from gun violence, where all Americans are safe at home, at school, at work, and in their communities. The Brady Campaign and the Brady Center believe that a safer America can be achieved without banning all guns.

The Brady Campaign works to enact and enforce sensible gun laws, regulations and public policies through grassroots activism, electing pro-gun-control public officials and increasing public awareness of gun violence.

The Brady Center works to reform the gun industry and educate the public about gun violence through litigation and grassroots mobilization, and works to enact and enforce sensible regulations to reduce gun violence including regulations governing the gun industry.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. This guy

is a disgusting pig. Pure and simple. :mad: Anybody who votes for him is a disgusting pig and likes disgusting pigs.

[Mythsaje]

2. Screw Bolton

but this anti-gun shit's gotta stop. I loathe the rabid anti-gunners AS MUCH as the rabid pro-gunners.

Bolton shouldn't receive the nod because he's an out-of-control bully and political hatchet-man. His position on guns is of no consequence compared to that.

[billbuckhead]

3. There's no relation between Delay,Zell Miller,Norquist, Bolton & the NRA?

What's wrong with America having similar gun regs to the rest of the civilized world? America loses more people on our own streets and homes from our weak gun regs and even weaker enforcement than we do in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now NRA whore John Bolton is trying to weaken other nations gun laws.

From the Brookings Institute--<http://www.brookings.edu/press/books/evaluatinggunpolicy.htm>

"Compared with other developed nations, the United States is unique in its high rates of both gun ownership and murder. Although widespread gun ownership does not have much effect on the overall crime rate, gun use does make criminal violence more lethal and has a unique capacity to terrorize the public. Gun crime accounts for most of the costs of gun violence in the United States, which are on the order of $100 billion per year."

[Mythsaje]

5. And home invasions

are on the rise in Britain because they've seriously curtailed the ability of the average citizen to protect themselves against attack.
I may be able to defend myself against criminals who are NOT armed with firearms, but many people are not.

[billbuckhead]

7. UK homicide rate is 10 times less than the USA

US death by guns lowers national life expectancy by 167.4 day vs other advanced nations. So much for the USA's weak gun laws and enforcement making America safer and freer. And John Bolton wants to bring this to Japan and Ireland which almost no murder by gun whatsoever?

[applegrove]

4. If Bolton makes it to the UN he will be the most studied sociopath

in history. We can use him as an example of one - he can be "sociopath zero" so we can all study and learn about how they act, etc.

Seems we need to learn that.

I'm trying to look at the bright side of this nomination. You can bet that details & diaries of all underlings will be available as soon as the creep is chased out of the UN.

It is good that we learn about the "type". We don't seem to know it.

[AndyTiedye]

6. Bolton = More WARS = More Guns = Good For the NRA

since the NRA is really the lobby for the gun manufacturers,

[CarefullyLiberal]

8. Hate to tell you but...

The National Rifle Association is not a "neocon" organization.

The term "Neo Conservative" or new conservative would not be appropriate when describing the NRA. The NRA is over 125 years old making them, by definition, not neocon.

I am a Democrat and generally vote party ticket. I'm also a proud member of the NRA.

-Fergus

[Swede]

9. Check out the CDC report from 1997

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm4605.pdf



Youth and Firearms: US and Abroad

In 1997, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data on the rates of firearm-related death among children in 26 industrialized countries, including in the United States and 25 other industrialized countries that were chosen because of their similarities to the United States.*

This report found that:

The homicide rate for children in the U.S. is five times higher that that of the other 25 countries combined;
The suicide rate for children in the U.S. is two times higher than that of the other 25 countries combined;
The overall firearm-related death rate for children in the U.S. is twelve times higher than that of the other 25 countries combined;
The firearm-related homicide rate for children in the U.S. is sixteen times higher than that of the other 25 countries combined;
The firearm-related suicide rate for children in the U.S. is eleven times higher than that of the other 25 countries combined;
The unintentional firearm-related death rate for children in the U.S. is nine times higher than that of the other 25 countries combined; and,
The rate of firearm-related death among children in the U.S. is 2.7 times higher than that of the country with the next-highest rate (Finland).

[yorgatron]

10. as a gun owner myself,i have to say this is just another reason i will

NEVER join the NRA :grr::mad: