Sen. Vitter Moves To "Stick It" To The Anti-gun United Nations
-- GOA-supported amendment passes overwhelmingly in the Senate
Friday, September 7, 2007
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) pushed a pro-gun amendment through the U.S. Senate last night on an 81-10 vote. GOA worked closely with Vitter in getting the language just right, as Senate rules make it difficult to attach certain amendments to spending bills.
The Vitter provision stipulates that no U.S. funds can be used by the United Nations -- or organizations affiliated with the UN -- to restrict or tax our gun rights. Hence, the amendment would give a mildly pro-gun administration the excuse to stop sending US taxpayer funds to the United Nations as soon as they adopt any policy to restrict the Second Amendment rights of Americans. (The Vitter amendment was added to HR 2764, the Department of State appropriations bill.)
Interestingly, four of the Senators who opposed the pro-gun Vitter amendment ALSO spoke in favor of the Veterans Disarmament Act during a committee vote in July -- Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
All four of these notoriously anti-gun Senators have now demonstrated their support for INTERNATIONAL GUN CONTROL, even while they support the Veterans Disarmament Bill here at home. The latter bill only has a number in the House (HR 2640). This measure has been introduced by the equally anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), and will expand the Brady Law to deny firearms to hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Americans. See
http://www.gunowners.org/netb.htm for more information on the Veterans Disarmament Bill.
ACTION: Please send Sen. Vitter a brief thank you for all the work he has done for gun owners nationwide. You will remember that last year, he succeeded in getting language passed (and signed by the
President) to ban the confiscation of firearms during a declared emergency.
You can use the "Compose Your Own Letter" option at
http://capwiz.com/gunowners/mail/?id=699&type=CO&state=LA to send a message such as the one below to Senator Vitter.
Or, his fax number is 202-228-5061.
----- Pre-written letter -----
Dear Senator Vitter:
Thank you so much for your efforts to defend the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment in particular. I agree that the United Nations is filled with tons of gun-grabbing tyrants, and your amendment is a great first step towards doing something about it.
Please keep up the good work!
Sincerely,
