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Oxfam, a coalition of 12 UN Non-Governmental Organizations, releases surveys indicating that people fear gun violence. In case you're wondering what Oxfam thinks might be suitable controls, "even in Britain and Canada, more than one in three people (39 and 36 percent respectively) worried about becoming an armed violence victim." and "In both Britain and Canada, six in every ten people thought it was too easy to obtain a gun in their country and more than five out of ten South Africans also agreed."
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The British survey results bolster what we've been saying fo years: gun registration, gun regulations and gun bans do absolutely nothing to prevent criminals from obtaining guns, since criminals (here's a new flash) tend to break the law. They're a lot like the guy with a bully for a boss, who gets back by coming home an yelling ar or slapping his wife.
1. If it is so easy to obtain guns, those who say so should demostrate it.
2. While I think the UN acts mostly to give the gloss of respectability to thieves like Robert Mugabe, Kofi Annan and Hussein of Syria, and that is among its least pernicious effects, the proverb, keep your allies close and your enemys closer applies here. If they were to all go to North Korea where they belong they might get too far out of our sight and really do something bad. Also the money they spend would prop up China's finger puppet and prolong the agony of the North Koreans longer than it might otherwise be.
This nation is going to have to stand up to the UN bully on personal disarmament. Alone among the major powers, only the US has a Constitutional guarantee of gun ownership and use.
We are also alone among the Great Powers in standing up to the IDEA of radical Islam, not just the occasional violent manifestations of it as we find the governments of Europe doing.
Since we're doing such a fine job of standing alone, why don't we complete OUR job and send the UN packing from our shores? Certainly, they should feel more welcome in another nation that doesn't keep telling them to piss up a rope.