Originally Posted by brassmonkey

look at this ok big brother has some plans.

When the treaty was originally proposed by the United Nations in 2006, the U.S. voted against the resolution, but the Obama Administration and several U.S. representatives revived it in 2010.

Advocates for gun control believe that by regulating and restricting the right to possess a firearm, violence will be reduced - that fewer guns will mean less crime. In fact, the opposite has been shown to be true. In 2008, our nation?s capital was ordered to lift a thirty year ban on handguns after a federal court tossed out the prohibition. Soon after the ruling was announced, Mayor Adrian Fenty held a press conference where he declared, ?More guns very simply lead to more violence.? But according to FBI statistics, since Washington D.C.?s gun ban was implemented, the murder rate for the district increased while the nation?s murder rate declined. After the injunction against handguns was lifted, from 2008 to 2009, murders in the district fell twenty-five percent.

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