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Gun law expert sees international counterattack on firearm controls in recent American and Brazilian votes
Washington, DC 20005 October 24 2005
“Recent votes in the United States House of Representatives and in a national referendum in Brazil point to the beginning of an all-out international attack on unreasonably restrictive gun controls and on their proponents,” gun law expert John Michael Snyder said here today.
“And it’s about time,” he added. “For too long, for much too long, elitists of various stripes throughout the world have been working to undermine the right and ability of average, decent people to defend life and property against violent local, national and international criminal elements. Well, the tide is turning. The people of the world are launching a counterattack on the local, national and international gun control proponents. For the freedom-loving people of the world, this is a most welcome and long-awaited development. We are telling the gun-grabbing elitists and hypocritical do-gooders of the world to go take a hike!”
Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the proposed Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act with a strong 283-144 bipartisan vote. The purpose of this proposal is to end the campaign in the United States of reckless lawsuits filed in an attempt to hold the lawful firearm industry responsible for the third party acts of criminals misusing firearms. It will not preclude suits where the law is broken or where a defective firearm is manufactured.
Since the U.S. Senate already had passed the Protection measure by a better than two-to-one margin vote of 65-31, it now goes to the President for his signature, which the White House has indicated will be forthcoming.
This past Sunday, citizens of Brazil in a national referendum rejected soundly a proposal to ban the sale of guns. With more than 92 percent of the votes counted, according to reports, 64 percent of Brazilians opposed the proposed ban and 36 percent supported it. This means that gun grabbers of the largest country in South America have themselves suffered a nearly two-to-one staggering defeat.
Snyder said that, “internationally, the gun grabbers are on the run. Now, freedom-loving people of the world must press home the advantage. We must continue to smash into gun control proponents with additional efforts to preserve and promote the right and ability of law-abiding, freedom-loving citizens to defend life, liberty and property against nefarious elements of society.”
He said further that, “a chief target of those who love freedom has got to be the gun-grabbing proposals of bureaucrats at the United Nations. At that monstrous international entity, gun grabbers are promoting something they term the ‘United Nations Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects.’ This calls for worldwide gun control which would subvert the individual, Second Amendment civil right of law-abiding American citizens to keep and bear arms.
“It’s time to tell gun-grabbing UN bureaucrats to go take a flying leap at the Moon – and don’t come back. It’s time to back the proposed Second Amendment Protection Act of 2005 (S. 1488), introduced by Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana with a number of cosponsors. This bill would cut U.S. funding to the UN if the UN proceeds with attempts to undermine the Second Amendment to our U.S. Constitution. It would cut the gun grabbers off at the knees!”
Named “dean of gun lobbyists” by The Washington Post and The New York Times as well as “a champion of the right to self-defense” by The Washington Times, Snyder, a former NRA editor, is Public Affairs Director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He also is Treasurer of the Second Amendment Foundation, Chairman of the St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc., and author of the book, GUN SAINT.
John Snyder (GunDean@aol.com)
Manager
Telum Associates, LLC
P P Box 2844
Arlington, VA 22202
Phone : 202-326-5259
Fax : 202-898-1939
Washington, DC 20005 October 24 2005
“Recent votes in the United States House of Representatives and in a national referendum in Brazil point to the beginning of an all-out international attack on unreasonably restrictive gun controls and on their proponents,” gun law expert John Michael Snyder said here today.
“And it’s about time,” he added. “For too long, for much too long, elitists of various stripes throughout the world have been working to undermine the right and ability of average, decent people to defend life and property against violent local, national and international criminal elements. Well, the tide is turning. The people of the world are launching a counterattack on the local, national and international gun control proponents. For the freedom-loving people of the world, this is a most welcome and long-awaited development. We are telling the gun-grabbing elitists and hypocritical do-gooders of the world to go take a hike!”
Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the proposed Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act with a strong 283-144 bipartisan vote. The purpose of this proposal is to end the campaign in the United States of reckless lawsuits filed in an attempt to hold the lawful firearm industry responsible for the third party acts of criminals misusing firearms. It will not preclude suits where the law is broken or where a defective firearm is manufactured.
Since the U.S. Senate already had passed the Protection measure by a better than two-to-one margin vote of 65-31, it now goes to the President for his signature, which the White House has indicated will be forthcoming.
This past Sunday, citizens of Brazil in a national referendum rejected soundly a proposal to ban the sale of guns. With more than 92 percent of the votes counted, according to reports, 64 percent of Brazilians opposed the proposed ban and 36 percent supported it. This means that gun grabbers of the largest country in South America have themselves suffered a nearly two-to-one staggering defeat.
Snyder said that, “internationally, the gun grabbers are on the run. Now, freedom-loving people of the world must press home the advantage. We must continue to smash into gun control proponents with additional efforts to preserve and promote the right and ability of law-abiding, freedom-loving citizens to defend life, liberty and property against nefarious elements of society.”
He said further that, “a chief target of those who love freedom has got to be the gun-grabbing proposals of bureaucrats at the United Nations. At that monstrous international entity, gun grabbers are promoting something they term the ‘United Nations Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects.’ This calls for worldwide gun control which would subvert the individual, Second Amendment civil right of law-abiding American citizens to keep and bear arms.
“It’s time to tell gun-grabbing UN bureaucrats to go take a flying leap at the Moon – and don’t come back. It’s time to back the proposed Second Amendment Protection Act of 2005 (S. 1488), introduced by Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana with a number of cosponsors. This bill would cut U.S. funding to the UN if the UN proceeds with attempts to undermine the Second Amendment to our U.S. Constitution. It would cut the gun grabbers off at the knees!”
Named “dean of gun lobbyists” by The Washington Post and The New York Times as well as “a champion of the right to self-defense” by The Washington Times, Snyder, a former NRA editor, is Public Affairs Director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. He also is Treasurer of the Second Amendment Foundation, Chairman of the St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc., and author of the book, GUN SAINT.
John Snyder (GunDean@aol.com)
Manager
Telum Associates, LLC
P P Box 2844
Arlington, VA 22202
Phone : 202-326-5259
Fax : 202-898-1939
