NRA: UN "Secretly Plotting" to Take Their Guns Away

The UN held a meeting this week about small arms proliferation via illegal trade which experienced a 'total meltdown' on Friday and ended with a whimper rather than a bang.

"There was a total meltdown at the end. You don't know if it was a conspiracy or just a screw-up," said one delegate, speaking on condition of anonymity."

And to add to the chaos:

The meeting was dogged from the start by zealous members of the U.S. National Rifle Association, who flooded the United Nations with letters falsely accusing it of secretly plotting to take away Americans' guns on July 4, a U.N. holiday marking U.S. Independence Day when delegates did not meet.

The George W. Bush administration, an ally of the rifle association, set the tone from the start when UnderSecretary of State for Arms Control Robert Joseph laid out a long list of proposals that Washington would not accept.

Here's the site that prompted all of those letters from NRA members: StopUNGunBan.org and here's a sample of the rhetoric by their guru, Wayne LaPierre.

...These dictatorships, terrorist states and so-called “free” nations of the world plan to meet on our home soil to finalize a U.N. treaty that would strip all citizens of all nations of their right to self-protection, and strip you of your rights under the Second Amendment.

And here is part of the opening statment by Kofi Annan on the main web site for the conference:

'Let me note that this Review Conference is not negotiating a 'global gun ban', nor do we wish to deny law-abiding citizens their right to bear arms in accordance with their national laws.'

Our energy, emphasis, and our anger is directed against illegal weapons, not legal ones.'

And, finally, here's a new slogan for Bushco and the NRA: 'Helping the terrorists win'.