Global Gun Control? Probably not, but keep an eye out…

Over the past few months I’ve been seeing articles on the UN’s Small Arms Treaty pop up in various places. The articles warned of one world governments, global civilian disarmament, and how Hillary Clinton was the Antichrist.

In other words, I thought, your standard tinfoil hats. Until today, when I actually looked up the treaty, and realized that tinfoil hat types are similar in function to the canaries miners use to have to warn of poisonous gas.

As it turns out, the Small Arms Treaty has yet to be written. However, the group pushing it — Control Arms Campaign — has enough information to get me slightly worried…

Extracted from their FAQ: “…but it would most likely not affect national laws allowing private citizens to be properly licensed to own and lawfully use a firearm in cases where they have a compelling reason to use a firearm and can do so safely.”

No, they’re not taking your guns away. Providing, of course, you have a compelling reason to own them… and something tell me “resisting governmental tyranny” sure as hell won’t cut it.

Of course, things change. The damn treaty isn’t even written, and once it has been the US still needs to sign it — something far from guaranteed. I’m not opposed to the main ideas put forth in the treaty — that is, keeping small arms out the hands of wannabe dictators and warlords — though I do think it’ll do little good. The final version will probably be quite tame and do jack shit about anything, just like the rest of the UN.

But keep an eye out.