Arms and the Law has the scoop.
From the report:
The severe consequences of firearm use therefore necessitate more detailed and stricter guidelines than other means of force. 26 Even when firearm use does not result in death, the injuries caused by firearm shots can be paralyzing, painful, and may immobilize a person for a much longer period of time than would other methods of temporary immobilization. 27 The raining handbook for police on human rights practices and standards produced by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights says that “firearms are to be used only in extreme circumstance”. 28 Any use of a firearm by a law enforcement official outside of the above-mentioned situational context will likely be incompatible with human rights norms.
But remember, Kofi says the U.N. isn’t out to take your guns.
It sounds to me like they’re confusing “rights” as “privileges”, or at least trying to redefine a right as such. I have a right to defend myself, but my ability to operate a motor vehicle on public roadways is a privilege granted me. Rights can be given up, but never taken away. Privileges can be dealt with in whatever way shoves a feather up the government’s rear at the time. When the self-appointed world dictators have managed to redefine the word right to have the same meaning as privilege, then we could all very well be in trouble.
I exercised my right to self-defense last night. We’ve been having a lot of trouble with people tearing up and trashing up our acreage in the middle of the night, and last night I couldn’t sleep so I went for a walk on the property. Aparently my flashlight caught the attention of the ruffians who’ve been causing the trouble and 4 of them thought they’d be tough and teach me a lesson for venturing out on my property at night. There was 4 of them and one of me, and I’m in not too good of health. I’ve got bad knees, I’ve become quite obese, and my short 5′6″ stature isn’t very intimidating, so they figured I was easy prey. However when I exercised my right to self-defense and the leader found himself staring down the business end of my S&W 8-3/8″ 629DX they promptly decided that I valued my safety more than I valued their lives, they then made a quick about face and ran off, no shots fired.
The police here won’t do anything about them. My family has gone round-and-round with the local sherrif’s dept. and they won’t lift a finger to try and stop the crap from happening, and last time they were called they never even bothered to show up.
Every day I thank God for my country acknowledging my God-given right to keep and bear arms and to defend my self, my family, my home, and my property. Those rights will not be given up by me ever. I will take those rights with me to the grave if necessary, regardless of what international law tries to dictate.
That viewpoint of ‘rights’ in the UN is actually shared here in the U.S. as well. Almost every person I’ve ever talked with on the subject of the Bill of Rights sees it as a document that GRANTS them thier rights. Even the pro-2nd Ammendment people!
When I explain that we were born with those rights because we’re PEOPLE, not Americans, and that the Founders wrote the Bill of Rights so that in THIS country the government can never take them away,I get a range of responses from funny looks to lightbulbs turning on to downright hostility. I’ll bet you can guess what kind of people I get that last reaction from.
Bottom line…
If we are to subordinate our self defense to government, the government must derive the power to do that from somewhere. Since government can only have power we give it, that power must come from us. Any power we have to defend ourselves comes from our right to defend ourselves. We may delegate power to government to defend us to certain extents, but we cannot subordinate ANY RIGHT of self defense to the government. Man came on the scene long before there were any governments. Man was able to and had the duty(and the right) to defend himself from day one! Governments come and go, but man and his rights endure.
The UN and anyone who goes along with it or fosters any of the BS that comes out of or goes into that organization is dead wrong about any man, woman, or child not having a right to defend themselves. The same applies to any of the tools necessary to the end of defending one’s self(and family, etc). We have the right to them - any of them - that could just as easily be used against us. That is simply as a consequense of their invention, and not any special or “unseen” clause in the Second Amendment.
The second Amendment places no limits on the right attendant to self defense, that being the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. That right to self defense is also where government get the power to defend its nation - power delegated to the government from the right of the people to defend themselves!
Woody
Way to go Joe!
(though the evil that lays within me, I would have used some rounds)
The part of Oklahoma I live in, I consider it “5 mile island”, “the step-child”.
Oklahoma City Limits.
Mid-Del Schools.
McLoud Telephone.
Norman Electric…………Get the picture? Just a sneeze away from another county I will add.
I have needed the Sherrif/local law inforcement. No one shows. No one knows where in the heck I live at, but me!
Its my right to shoot and protect my family, land, things, and my life.
Its my privalge to show them punks that.
You didn’t seriously think the U.N. was going to have an epiphany on this did you?
Of course the U.N. is going to say that self defense is not a human right. Otherwise, it would have indited itself as one of the worst human rights offenders. The U.N. in Africa is a prime example of how their intervention just leads to the slaughter of helpless people.
Just a thought from this former Infantry Veteran from the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, my hands are not yet cold…..
Well, I would suspect that those were the exact words of the UN peacekeepers(?) just before they raped those women in Africa.