Quotes for the upcoming UN Conference on Gun Regulation

Thanks to Dan GIfford (some of these were listed in previous posts):

"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose."

James Earl Jones
U.N. wants global ban on guns
By Gina Parker
June 21, 2006

"I think that eventually Americans will realize that their obsession with arming themselves in fear, in a paranoid belief that they’re going to be able to stave off the ills of the world through owning guns, through turning every house into an arsenal, eventually Americans will go away from that."

Rebecca Peters
Director
International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)
U.N. wants global ban on guns
June 21, 2006

"Uncontrolled proliferation of guns and other weapons also fuels human rights abuses and escalates conflicts ... It doesn't have to be like this."

(Amnesty's Control Arms Campaign believes a global Arms Trade Treaty is the solution. -- story text)

Amnesty International
June 30, 2006
UN Push for Global Gun Control Viewed As Insult to USA

"Guns do not kill people. Bullets do ... the global bullet trade is out of control, fuelling conflict and human rights abuses. Also a new international survey from the Control Arms Campaign reveals that almost one in three people surveyed in six different countries have been affected by gun crime."

Oxfam International
Oxfam is a group of non-governmental organizations from three continents
working worldwide to fight poverty
http://www.oxfam.org/
June 20, 2006
Illegal arms and UN reform

"Arms supply chains are becoming increasingly sub-contracted and completely out of control. They are talking about curbing brokering but they haven't even got round to transport."

Brian Wood
Amnesty International's arms expert
June 20, 2006
Illegal arms and UN reform

"The global arms trade is dangerously unregulated, and allows weapons to reach repressive governments, human rights abusers and criminals. To address these concerns, three global organizations have joined together to launch an international campaign in over sixty countries, to reduce arms proliferation and misuse, and to introduce an international Arms Trade Treaty."

Oxfam International
Oxfam is a group of non-governmental organizations from three continents
working worldwide to fight poverty ...
http://www.oxfam.org/
June 20, 2006
Control Arms

"The United States believes that the responsible use of firearms is a legitimate aspect of national life."

John Bolton
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
June 30, 2006
UN Push for Global Gun Control Viewed As Insult to USA

"Had it not been for our tradition of private firearms ownership, our citizens might still be subjects of the queen. Had it not been for America, all of Europe might be speaking German. Were America not the 'great arsenal of democracy' that President Franklin D. Roosevelt described in 1940, the world would be a far different place, and the sanctimonious bureaucrats at the U.N. might instead be working in labor camps."

Alan Gottlieb
Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)
June 30, 2006
UN Push for Global Gun Control Viewed As Insult to USA

"We have done much for the U.N., and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself. And now comes an attack on our Constitution, on our national holiday. America has always
answered the call to help our international friends and neighbors, but when our very way of life is attacked, maybe it is time to find more worthy endeavors for our material and financial support."

Alan Gottlieb
Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)
June 30, 2006
UN Push for Global Gun Control Viewed As Insult to USA

"The growing trend of gun clubs on college campuses represents 'absolutely no problem' to one of America's top gun control groups. According to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Handgun Violence, students who form such clubs will forever be a 'passionate minority.'"

Alison Espach
CNSNews.com Correspondent
June 22, 2006
Brady Campaign Dismisses Influence of College Gun Clubs

"I think that [the Brady Campaign's] prediction is demonstrably wrong. I'll continue to believe that until they explain to me why in recent years Democratic candidates have deliberately backed away from supporting the Brady position on gun control [which is] notoriously advising their candidates not to open their mouths on the gun issue because it has resulted in the defeat of a whole lot of left wing candidates."

Morton C. Blackwell
President of the Leadership Institute of the Campus Leadership Program
(CLP). It affiliates itself with conservative organizations such as Gun
Owners of America (GOA) and recruits paid field representatives to
identify and train conservative students to form clubs.
June 22, 2006
Brady Campaign Dismisses Influence of College Gun Clubs

"Who will save the children? Who will save them from guns? the Washington-based Children's Defense Fund issued a report saying in part that the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 'The number of children and teens killed by gun violence in 2003 alone exceeds the number of American fighting men and women killed in hostile action in Iraq from 2003 to April 2006 ... In 2003, 56 preschoolers were killed by firearms. In the same year, 52 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty ... The number of children and teens in America killed by guns in 2003 would fill 113 public school classrooms of 25 students each.' So who will save the children? Who will save them from guns?"

Dwight Lewis
dlewis@tennessean.com.
Columnist, The Tennessean
June 22, 2006
Guns keep on robbing America of her young