CLINTON WILL SIGN INTERNATIONAL GUN CONTROL TREATY JULY 20TH?

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The story is circulating again that Obama has found a way around the 2^nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, by signing a treaty with members of the United Nations that will nullify the Amendment and put gun control into U.S. law. Although the U.N. has been studying the possibility of an Arms Trade Treaty that could have an impact on us, were it not for the 2^nd Amendment, these are the facts:

•        The “treaty” has yet to be drafted, and is in the conversational stage
•    No such treaty could bypass normal legislative process in the U.S.; even if signed by Secretary of State Clinton, such a treaty must be ratified by a 2/3 vote of the U.S. Senate before having any effect at all. 
•    Neither the Secretary of State nor the President can enact a complete ban on all weapons owned by U.S. citizens through the signing of international treaties with foreign nations. 
•    In the 1957 case of Reid v. Covert, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution supersedes even international treaties ratified by the U.S. Senate. 

Snopes.com properly advises that there is no “legal way around the 2^nd Amendment” other than a new Amendment to the Constitution that repeals or alters it, or a Supreme Court decision that radically interprets how the 2^nd Amendment is to be applied. 

All of that having been said, if Obama gets reelected and the Democrats continue to control the Senate, and if a conservative Member of the Supreme Court resigns or dies thereby leaving Obama with the opportunity to appoint another radical left Judge to the Court…. we’re screwed.   

Unless we vote Obama and the Senate Democrats out, I don’t like the odds. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.