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Jack Reed's response to my CIFTA treaty letter.
About par for what I expected. The usual "I really do care about firearm owners, but we need more laws to stop the evil gun runners in Mexico".
Thank you for contacting me regarding the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials (CIFTA). I appreciate hearing from you.
On November 13, 1997, the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted CIFTA, a multilateral treaty designed to prevent, combat, and eradicate illegal transnational trafficking in firearms, ammunition, and explosives. By ratifying CIFTA, member states formally recognize the illicit manufacturing and trafficking of firearms as criminal offenses, and agree to strengthen enforcement efforts aimed at reducing this illicit market. CIFTA was signed by the United States and 28 other OAS member states on November 14, 1997, and entered into effect on July 1, 1998. Currently, twenty-nine OAS member states have ratified the Convention, while four other OAS member states, including the United States, are signatories but have yet to ratify the treaty.
As a graduate of the United States Military Academy and a former officer in the U.S. Army, I respect firearms and appreciate responsible gun ownership. I also recognize the tradition and value of hunting and other sporting activities involving guns, and believe we should not restrict access to firearms by law-abiding sportsmen or other gun enthusiasts.
However, I believe we can, and must, do more to reduce gun-related crimes that shatter the lives of too many Americans. While some consider international arms trade treaties an infringement on free trade, many others agree that such measures will help prevent large caches of weapons, including those left over from previous conflicts, from getting into the hands of criminals. For your review, I have enclosed a Congressional Research Service report on gun trafficking on our southwestern border.
Please be assured that I will keep your thoughts in mind should the Senate consider CIFTA or other arms trade treaties in the future.
Again, thank you for contacting me, and please do not hesitate to write, call, or visit my website, www.reed.senate.gov, in the future for information regarding this or any other matter.
Sincerely,
Jack Reed
United States Senator
http://reed.senate.gov
If you'd like to send another message, please do so at http://reed.senate.gov/contact/ . Thank you.
Enclosure
Rifleman/IIT
A right that goes unexercised soon devolves into a privilege, and finally a crime.
NES /dev/random %er: "Keep 'em guessing!"
Do you have the attachment that he sent?
Hrm.. I thought I had attached it. I will try to figure out where the fail is. It was a "report" on the "Mexican drug war violence".
EDIT: Looks like the file is too big. It is commonly available, this should get you the link.
http://tinyurl.com/pgrjr5
Last edited by Gadsden; 09-10-2009 at 10:33 PM.
Rifleman/IIT
A right that goes unexercised soon devolves into a privilege, and finally a crime.
NES /dev/random %er: "Keep 'em guessing!"
Thanks.
I got the same BS reply.
The funny thing is that is was addressed to my son. My son had used my email address to send his office an email for scouts. The don't even read who signed the email, they just have his name auto-populate because that was the first name that was used from that particular email address. More proof that we are nothing more the serfs to these people.
It's time to drag some of these petty enforcers and ticket-writers, spies and interlopers, social-servicy puritanical do-gooder liberty-infringing family-befouling irritating holier-than-thou socially controlling progressive pecker-checker hypocrites into the swamps and hack them to death with machetes. - TheGringo
Me 3.Originally Posted by Metalhead
"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms."
Samuel Adams, 1788, Proposed Draft of the Second Amendment
"a multilateral treaty designed to prevent, combat, and eradicate illegal transnational trafficking in firearms, ammunition, and explosives"
Here's a thought...why don't we stop allowing illegal people in? You gonna tell me that the increase in the number of illegals and the number of illegal weapons are not proportionate?
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No. Crime is higher among born citizens. Blaming a blanket population is the same tactic these idiots use against gun owners.
Libertas!
Don't want to start a 6 week old argument but 1. crime statistics I've read involving illegals are staggering 2. Drug cartels introduce many of the "illegal" firearms in use BY natural born citizens and 3. Illegals (12 million of them) do not have 2A rights. If they want to fight "the war on drugs" and "the war on guns" they need fight the "war on illegals." Which would also create jobs (that naturally, we don't "want") and reduce the strain on social services, thus reducing taxpayer burden.
I'm not blaming illegals for everything. I'm merely stating fact...all 12 million of them are criminals.
This was exactly what I was thinking...if they are coming in illegally, why not stop THEM? Then BOTH problems are solved...oh, wait, thats logical...and we are dealing with politicians here. Silly me
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