The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution clearly states that all citizens of our country have the “right to keep and bear Arms.” In this instance, a right is a natural and commonly held belief and desire to do something as a free person, not a subject; keep means to hold in one’s possession, and bear means to use when necessary. Thus the right to keep and bear arms means, that as a free person, a citizen of the United States of America, we all have the right to possess arms, and to use those arms- guns: handguns, long guns, front-stuffers or repeaters- to protect ourselves from any danger, be that danger an American criminal in New Orleans, Louisiana or a foreign foe from Iraq, Afghanistan, or Iran. The United Nations, headquartered in New York, sees it differently. They don’t think we Americans ought to be allowed to protect ourselves. They think we ought to wait for the police to come, while the criminal helps themselves to whatever- and whomever- they wish.

For more than ten years, the United Nations, led by Khoffi Annan, and others, has tried to get the United States on the bandwagon of worldwide gun databases, including the names, addresses, makes and models of every gun owned, made, and held by American citizens. The U.N.’s view is that guns are evil, and if all guns are banned, and subsequently destroyed, the world will be a safer place. How is this so? How do they propose all guns be registered? Are the criminals going to come in to the local gun store, the local police department, and sign up to have their guns registered? Are the criminals going to stop running illegal guns, stealing guns, making straw purchases? No. That is why they are criminals. A criminal commits crimes. Laws mean nothing to these people. If the rule of law meant anything to a criminal, he would not be a criminal, but an honest, law-abiding citizen. The U.N. even thinks it is a good idea to place serial numbers on the cases of individual bullets for identification purposes. They believe guns can be “finger-printed”, just like a human being. Printing serial numbers on individual bullets only identifies new bullets. What about people who hand-load their bullets? The serial number only identifies a new bullet. If the brass is left at the range, and re-loaded there, then how do they identify who it belongs to? They can’t. A gun will make an individual stamp on a shell casing, yes, but fire two hundred more rounds through the gun, and the fingerprint changes.

The United Nations has since 1995, and particularly since 2001, have been trying to take away and infringe our rights as Americans. Syria, Iran, Cuba, China, and other Communist, anti-American countries, have been voting for the international registration of our guns for years. The U.N. proposes a national registry of legal firearms. This registry would include four things:

1. Promote national registries and tracking lists for all firearms. Suddenly, this creates international registration for legal firearms.
2. Part of this registration would be an international tracking certificate.
3. These first two clauses would create and call for worldwide record keeping for an indefinite amount of time.
4. This registration would also call for comprehensive worldwide gun control. This would include a total ban on certain types of legal firearms, which the U.N. currently refuses to name.

This referendum is funded by the likes of the International Network on Small Arms. The director of the IANSA is none other than Rebecca Peters, the spearhead of Australia’s gun control laws. Rebecca Peters’ organization is funded by billionaire George Soros. George Soros has been a vocal proponent of gun control for many years.

Senator David Vitter (R-LA) sponsored an amendment in th U.S. Senate that would cut off any and all funding from the United States to the United Nations and other organizations that tried to restrict American Second Amendment rights by registration or taxation of legal firearms. The amendment passed, with a vote of 81-10. Now the amendment goes to the House, as part of this particular Senate appropriations bill, will go to a Conference Committee. We as citizens, need to call, write and e-mail our Representatives and tell them to keep the Vitter Language in the bill. With a Democratic Congress in power, and Nancy Pelosi (R-CA) as Speaker of the House, we Americans need to do everything in our power to make certain the U.N. cannot regulate us as Americans. China, Syria, Cuba, Iran, all are helping to push this agenda at the U.N. Senator Pelosi is a very vocal proponent of gun control, and has been for years. We need to vote. We need to write our Representatives and Senators in Congress. Their job is to represent us, the people. They work for us, whether we be a poor waitress living in a bad neighborhood who needs a gun to defend herself with when she comes home at night, or whether we be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company who needs to be able to protect himself and his family when out for an evening.

If you do not know the name or address of your Congress people, now is the time to find out. You can find this information in the Government listings in your phone book. You can register to vote at your local Department of Motor Vehicles in many states, or city hall, or your county courthouse in every state. You can also go to: Write Your Rep or, Congress. Here, you can write directly to your representatives in Congress. Write your Representative, write your Senator, tell your friends, and everyone on your e-mail list. We as Americans cannot afford to let foreign interests regulate us. The United Nations has no business in the United States. They want to take away our rights to defend ourselves. Let’s defend ourselves and our rights by getting involved. Write, call, vote. Get involved with the NRA. Let’s keep the Vitter language in the Appropriations Bill, and let’s keep the U.N. out of our rights to freedom and liberty.