Obama's United Nations Backdoor to Gun Control

[g5000]

The WSJ used to be a fine publication. But it was bought a few years ago by the same company that owns Fox News. And now we see this opinion piece of shit (not a news article, an opinion piece) from Bolton and Yoo, two of the whackiest of the whacky neocons in that once venerable newspaper.

Very unfortunate to see the WSJ sink this low.

 

[koshergrl]

When you buy a shirt, it was most likely made overseas. In order to determine the importation duties and customs, there is a national control list of every possible piece of apparel that may be imported. These control lists define every possible characteristic of that shirt. That it is a shirt, to begin with. Then what fabric it is made of. Then what material the fabric is made from. Then what kind of stitching. What kind of buttons, and the material of the buttons, and on and on and on. You'd be amazed at the level of detail they get down to on these control lists.

This way, they know EXACTLY which categories that kind of shirt falls into, right down to its basic fundamental parts.

So let's say the US signs a treaty agreeing not to import any apparel which uses parts of whales, and agrees not to export any apparel made from whale parts. So wherever buttons made out of whale bones appear on the control list, those items will be flagged as being banned from importation.

Then if Wal-Mart buys a bunch of shirts from China, and they arrive on a ship and a customs inspector is checking them out, and upon examination it is discovered those shirts have whalebone buttons as the customs inspector goes down the control list questions, then those shirts would be turned away.


Now...you'd have to be a special kind of idiot to believe a national control list for apparel means we all have to register our shirts with the government, right?

Just so with Bolton and Yoo trying to get the rubes to infer a national control list for arms means we will all have to register our guns with the government.

The rubes don't know what the words "national control list" mean. But to anyone familiar with such things, it is plain English.

The treaty regulates the international trade in several types of arms. One such item on the list is "Combat aircraft".

Just like with the "shirt", the words "combat aircraft" will be defined on a national control list down to the nitty gritty. That way, a plastic toy fighter jet that shoots plastic missles and is sold to kids as a combat aircraft will not be identified on the national control list as an item that can't be sold to North Korea. But an F-15 will be identified as a banned item on that list.

Bolton and Yoo know this. But when you read their article in the OP, and understand what a national control list actually is, then their deliberate attempts to mislead the rubes becomes obvious and quite shocking to see. These two assholes are completely shameless.

Sure.



It's a *conspiracy*.