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If you didn’t hear liberals snapping like twigs it might be because the applause was so loud. President Trump, while addressing a huge crowd at an NRA event, made more than an announcement. He is asking the Senate to discontinue the UN Small Arms Treaty ratification process. To return the rejected treaty to the Oval … Read more
I was writing a follow up to our grass roots effort to contact New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte--to push her off the fence, basically, to vote against the UN Arms Treaty. Senator Ayotte eventually agreed with us and along with Senator Portman–who is typically an unreliable centrist on issues like this–made it impossible for the treaty to get Senate Approval.
Yeah, we were pretty jacked about it. But not everyone was convinced it was the right thing to do.
Here’s something you’ll almost never hear. I’m actually defending Obama here. Despite what the peacnick globalist gun grabbers think, the collapse of the UN Arms treaty that he would have been more than happy to sign in a New York Minute, despite it violating the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, and our inalienable human right to self defense….it was not (entirely) his fault.
Fifty-One members of the US Senate had already sent the President a letter stating that…as along as small and light arms were in the treaty, they would never vote to ratify it. It’s that whole separation of powers thing. Obama can sign whatever he likes but at the end of the day congress has to agree to fund it and in the case of treaties, the Senate needs 67 votes to authorize it. Forty-nine aint no sixty-seven, even in Chicago.
Of course, as Hot Air point out, Obama chose to engage in the process of advancing this treaty starting back in 2009 so he only has himself to blame. Which gets me thinking.