The child-raping left-fascist totalitarians at the UN are trying to outlaw our guns...

...and they're using our tax money to do it!

AFP: UN arms control meet opens with call for global treaty

The conference has drawn the ire of the National Rifle Association (NRA), the powerful lobby of US gun owners which views it as a first step toward a global treaty to outlaw gun ownership by civilians.

Addressing those concerns, Annan stressed that there was no question of negotiating a global ban.

"Our energy, our emphasis and our anger is directed against illegal weapons, not legal weapons," he said. "Our targets remain unscrupulous arms brokers, corrupt officials, drug trafficking syndicates, criminals and others who bring death and mayhem into our communities."

The US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, made it clear that Washington would "resist very strongly" any attempt to influence domestic US policy.

"There are some groups who do have a larger agenda in terms of domestic gun control," Bolton told reporters. "That's not consistent with what we see as the purpose of this conference or its likely outcome."

Thank goodness we have a real American keeping an eye on those fat bastards.

The faces on the petition handed to Annan represented the million people who have been killed by small arms since 2003.

It was an initiative from the Control Arms Campaign, which brings together Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), an alliance of some 600 non-governmental organizations.

The usual suspects.

"We've come to the meeting this week to ask for international rules governing the arms trade," said IANSA director Rebecca Peters.

"The lack of those rules is costing us too much and every day that we wait that cost is going up by 1,000 lives," she said.

Guns don't kill, leftist governments do.

Most deaths in conflicts around the world are caused by small arms, which are mainly exported by the United States, Italy, Brazil, Germany, and Russia, according to a survey released by Small Arms Survey, the brainchild of a Geneva-based independent research project.

"Small arms" include handguns, pistols, rifles, sub-machine guns, mortars, grenades and light missiles. "Light weapons" comprise heavy machine-guns, mounted grenade launchers, anti-tank guns and portable anti-aircraft guns.