Say Anything Blog

You know what’s awesome?  When a Presidential candidate starts guest-posting on a blog called “The Gun Nut.”

Last year, the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights declared that international human rights law requires all nations to adopt strict gun control laws. These “minimum” provisions are much more restrictive than any of those on the books anywhere in the U.S. and would almost certainly violate the Second Amendment of our Constitution.

Besides concluding that all nations are obligated under international human rights law to control the small arms and light weapons to which its civilian population has access, the UN report remarkably denied the existence of any human right to self-defense, evidently overlooking the work of Hugo Grotius, the 17th century scholar credited as the founder of international law, who wrote, “It is to be observed that [the] Right of Self-Defence, arises directly and immediately from the Care of our own Preservation, which Nature recommends to every one. . . ,” and that this right is so primary, that it cannot be denied on the basis that it is not “expressly set forth.”

So, in summary, the United Nations thinks it’s a “human right” for the government to heavily regulate the possession of firearms.  They don’t think it’s a “human right” for citizens to be able to protect themselves.

What utter nonsense.

If you ask me, there would be a hell of a lot less genocide in the world if the UN went about promoting the ideal of the well-armed and independent citizen.