“Currently, the United Nations is drafting an Arms Trade Treaty to impose strict controls on firearms and other weapons,” David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant and Joanne D. Eisen write in a just-released New York University Journal of Law & Liberty Article. From the Abstract:
In support of hasty adoption of the Treaty, a UN-related organization of Treaty supporters have produced a report claiming that armed violence is responsible for 740,000 deaths annually. This Article carefully examines the claim. We find that the claim is based on dubious assumptions, cherry-picked data, and mathematical legerdemain which is inexplicably being withheld from the public. The refusal to disclose the mathematical calculations used to create the 740,000 factoid is itself cause for serious suspicion; our own calculations indicate that the 740,000 figure is far too high.
Further, while the report claims that 60% of homicides are perpetrated with firearms, our review of the data on which the report claimed to rely yields a 22% rate. The persons responsible for the report have refused to release their homicide calculations, or any other calculations.
Globalist gun-grabbers fudge numbers to advance an agenda? And then refuse to share their methodologies and data? This is my shocked face.
“Until the data and calculations are made available to the public, policymakers and concerned global citizens should give no weight to the unsubstantiated factoid of 740,000 deaths,” the authors conclude.
That’s actually quite a smart thing to call for, as the chances of getting an honest accounting from those desperate to impose global “gun control” are about on par with the chances that those advocating a state monopoly of violence overseen through a global regulatory framework will voluntarily give up that quest. And coincidentally, the release of this report occurs just when the United Nation’s Human Rights Council is weighing in on one of its prized members:
U.N. Council Poised to Adopt Report Praising Libya's Human Rights
Here comes that shocked face again.
Me, I’d like to see any accounting cover all factors in the equation, starting with the Genocide Chart from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
Then I would like to inform those who would still proceed down the path of UN small arms control that some things are simply non-negotiable.
And end with a simple warning:
The global violence monopolists will have to throw more than phony numbers at those of us who take that position, and I would remind them that if they’re going to use real numbers, they may want to come up with a realistic accounting of how many they think it will take, and then share the methodology they intend to use to make their mad dream happen.
Also see:
- Hillary Clinton's State Department reanimates global arms treaty
- Will Arms Trade Treaty reduce human rights violations in Africa?
- Whose Watchdog?
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