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Rand Paul: Obama's gun control Crown Jewel




Dear fellow Patriot,

Gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made.

You see, only hours after re-election, President Obama’s Administration announced it was doubling down on efforts to finally RAM the United Nations’ so-called "Small Arms Treaty" down American gun owners’ throats.

From the moment I heard that news, I knew Second Amendment supporters’ backs were against the wall.

But after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut -- and anti-gun hysteria in the national media reaching a fever pitch -- there’s no doubt President Obama and his anti-gun pals believe the timing has never been better to ram through the U.N.’s global gun control crown jewel.

I don't know about you, but watching anti-American globalists plot against our Constitution makes me sick.

But with the United Nations meeting in March to finalize their radical so-called "Small Arms Treaty" -- and a full U.S. Senate ratification showdown coming right on its heels -- there’s not much time to fight back.

You and I will only have a few short weeks to prepare for this battle...

If we’re to succeed, we must fight back now.

That's why I’m helping lead the fight to defeat the UN "Small Arms Treaty" in the United States Senate.

And it's why I need your help today.

Will you join me by taking a public stand against the UN "Small Arms Treaty" and sign the Official Firearms Sovereignty Survey right away?

Ultimately, UN bureaucrats will stop at nothing to register, ban and CONFISCATE firearms owned by private citizens like YOU.

So far, the gun-grabbers have successfully kept many of their schemes under wraps.

But looking at previous attempts by the UN to pass global gun control, you and I can get a good idea of what’s likely in the works.


You can bet the UN is working to FORCE the U.S. to implement every single one of these anti-gun policies:
*** Enact tougher licensing requirements, making law-abiding Americans cut through even more bureaucratic red tape just to own a firearm legally;
*** CONFISCATE and DESTROY ALL "unauthorized" civilian firearms (all firearms owned by the government are excluded, of course);
*** BAN the trade, sale and private ownership of ALL semi-automatic weapons;
*** Create an INTERNATIONAL gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun CONFISCATION.
I'm sure I don't have to tell you this is NOT a fight we can afford to lose.

Ever since its founding 65 years ago, the United Nations has been hell-bent on bringing the United States to its knees.

To the petty dictators and one-world socialists who control the UN, the United States of America isn’t a "shining city on a hill" -- it’s an affront to their grand designs for the globe.

These anti-gun globalists know that as long as Americans remain free to make our own decisions without being bossed around by big government bureaucrats, they’ll NEVER be able to seize the worldwide power they crave.

And the UN’s apologists also know the most effective way to finally strip you and me of ALL our freedoms would be to DESTROY our gun rights.

That’s why I was so excited to see the National Association for Gun Rights leading the fight to stop the UN "Small Arms Treaty!"

Will you join them by going on record AGAINST global gun control and sign the Official Firearms Sovereignty Survey today?


The truth is there’s no time to waste.

You and I have to be prepared for this fight to move FAST.

The fact is the last thing the gun-grabbers at the UN and in Washington, D.C. want is for you and me to have time to mobilize gun owners to defeat this radical agenda.

They’ve made that mistake before, and we’ve made them pay, defeating EVERY attempt to ram the UN Small Arms Treaty into law since the mid-1990s.

But now time may not be on our side.

In fact, we’re likely to only have a few weeks to defeat them when they make their move in March.

And worse... the UN Small Arms Treaty is no longer the only UN scheme threatening our gun rights.

More and more of the UN's radical agenda is slipping through covertly, under the cover of domestic legislation.

In fact, President Obama’s State Department recently bragged that Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious are implementations of the UN's anti-gun agenda!

And I'd place a wager that Obama's M1 Rifle Re-importation Ban was also the UN's agenda dutifully executed by his administration.

Anti-gun UN policy that NEVER received a single vote in the United States Congress!

Now anti-gun countries like China are loudly calling for passage of new gun control schemes here on U.S. soil; and Members of Congress rush to comply by introducing legislation like a new ban on so-called "Assault Weapons."

This fight and many others are absolutely critical to maintain our Second Amendment freedoms as well.

But it’s no wonder the gun-grabbers believe right now is their best chance ever to ram through the so-called "Small Arms Treaty" -- their ultimate prize.

President Obama has already announced he’s prepared to throw the full weight of his presidency behind enacting new gun control schemes.

And as I mentioned, the U.N. will meet soon to pass a final version of the "Small Arms Treaty" to be sent for ratification by the Senate.

But even worse than a renewed mandate, the General Assembly could vote by simple majority to implement the "Small Arms Treaty."

This would bypass any further meetings and would allow them to insist that member states ratify the treaty immediately.

So if you and I are going to defeat them, we have to turn the heat up on Washington now before it’s too late!
1.  Do you believe the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Second Amendment are the supreme law of the land?
2.  Do you believe any attempt by the United Nations to subvert or supersede your Constitutional rights must be opposed?
If you said "Yes!" to these questions, please sign the survey the National Association for Gun Rights has prepared for you.


But I hope you'll do more than just sign your survey today.

With your help, the National Association for Gun Rights will continue to turn up the heat on targeted Senators who are working to implement the UN "Small Arms Treaty."

Direct mail.  Phones.  E-mail.  Blogs.  Guest editorials.  Press conferences.  Hard-hitting internet, newspaper, radio and even TV ads if funding permits.  The whole nine yards.

Of course, a program of this scale is only possible if the National Association for Gun Rights can raise the money.

But that’s not easy, and we may not have much time.

In fact, if gun owners are going to defeat the UN's schemes, pro-gun Americans like you and me have to get involved NOW!

So please put yourself on record AGAINST the UN Gun Ban by signing NAGR’s Firearms Sovereignty Survey.

But along with your survey, please agree to make a generous contribution of $250, $100, $50 or even just $35.

And every dollar counts in this fight so even if you can only chip in $10 or $20, it will make a difference.

Thank you in advance for your time and money devoted to defending our Second Amendment rights.

For Freedom,

Rand Paul
United States Senator
P.S. Only hours after re-election President Obama's Administration immediately made a move for gun control by gleefully voting at the UN for a renewed effort to pass the "Small Arms Treaty."

And after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, there’s no doubt Obama and his anti-gun pals believe the timing has never been better to ram through the U.N.’s global gun control crown jewel.

What’s worse, the UN set March 18th-28th to meet to pass the final version of the treaty that will be sent to the Senate for ratification.

That means, if we’re going to defeat the UN "Small Arms Treaty," gun owners have to turn the heat up now before it’s too late!

Please return your Firearms Sovereignty Survey and put yourself squarely on the record AGAINST the UN "Small Arms Treaty."

And if you can, please make a generous contribution to the National Association for Gun Rights of $250, $150, $100 or even just $35 right away!

And every dollar counts in this fight so even if you can only chip in $10 or $20, it will make a difference.

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School districts across country embrace call to hire armed guards

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School districts in Pennsylvania, Alabama, New Jersey, and Rhode Island have hired armed officers in the weeks since the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., the Free Beacon has found.

Additionally, schools in Florida, Tennessee, Arizona, and New York are in the process of hiring armed officers or recommending they be placed in schools.

Vice President Joe Biden will present his recommendations on school safety to President Barack Obama on Tuesday. Reports indicate that the Obama administration will seek to tighten gun control laws.

“Although school shootings are very rare, they are unpredictable and they always occur in communities where people say it would never happen here,” said Arab City School District superintendent John Mullins. His district in Alabama hired three additional armed school resource officers recently, placing armed officers in each of the district’s four schools.

“When it comes to the safety and well-being of our children, there is no price too high,” he said. The district allocated $66,000 of its $20 million budget for armed officers because they “seem to be a powerful deterrent from being victimized by an irrational violent person.”

The officers hired for the Arab City schools are part of the town’s police department and work on their days off for $15 per hour.

“I think our parents are appreciative of our efforts, especially the parents of our youngest school that teaches pre-kindergarten through second grade,” Mullins said. “We have received nothing but positive responses not only from parents but also from our teachers.”

Armed officers were also hired in the city of Vestavia, Ala., and funding for armed officers in all schools in Alabama is now under consideration. The state’s superintendent and legislators met on Jan. 9 to discuss the possibility of funding for officers for all schools in the state, Mullins said.

Superintendent MaryEllen Elia of the Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida is sending safety recommendations to its Board of Education this week that include the hiring an additional 130 officers so all schools will have armed and trained personnel.

“Let me tell you that I wish this wasn’t necessary. I wish we didn’t have to consider any of these strategies but the world has changed since I was in school. It changed again on December 14th,” said Elia in a release. She said she will lobby aggressively for school security funding and has been in contact with U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan as well as Florida representatives.

“Here in Hillsborough County, we don’t believe it’s all someone else’s responsibility. We have a role and a responsibility. We’re not going to wait around hoping our students and staff are safe,” Elia said.

Gary Rudick, the chief of police for the Tulsa Public School District, wrote in an email to the Free Beacon that armed officers in schools are a deterrent against crime and armed intruders. The district formed and funded its own police department in 2008 and the results have been positive.

“Armed offices are a visible deterrent. There has never been a school shooting in the United States where there was an armed, in uniform, sworn police officer on duty,” Rudick said, adding that there are other benefits to having police on grounds.

“Within the five-year period, we have seen arrests decrease as we continue to develop relationships with students in schools. We have recovered an average of four to six firearms from students each year, most always based on the relationships developed with students who come to the officers and give information on the presence of the gun,” Rudick said.

Not all the Tulsa schools have an officer stationed full time because of budget constraints. But Rudick said there are police “rovers” who go from one site to another.

A school in New Castle, Penn., now has six more armed officers since its board approved their hiring on Dec. 20. Additional safety measures include appointments being necessary for all visitors to the schools, according to a letter from the superintendent.

The Marlboro, N.J., district’s public information officer Sharon Witchel said officers hired to patrol all the schools in their township since early January are active members of the Marlboro Police Department.

“It is a temporary 90-day measure as we evaluate our safety and security measures,” Witchel said.

The district plans to collect input and data, evaluate all safety measures, and then make recommendations to its board before the 90-day police contract expires.

Another school district in New Jersey, Totowa School District, also hired armed officers. The superintendent of the Fort Lee Public Schools in New Jersey is reportedly requesting armed officers in all schools there.

Schools in Williamson County, Tenn., and Staten Island, N.Y., appear poised to hire armed officers. Discussions and recommendations as well as funding options have taken place, according to media reports.

“If our actions result in saving only one life, they’re worth taking,” Biden said at a meeting of victims and gun control proponents at the White House last week.

At least one life was saved in 2010 when an armed officer in a high school protected the principal and students from a gunman. That incident was reported in the local media but did not garner national media attention.

When Thomas Cowan arrived at Sullivan Central High School in Blountsville, Tenn., he pointed his gun at the principal’s face. An armed officer stationed at the school shielded the principal’s body with her own and lured the gunman into an isolated area of the school. A school surveillance video posted on YouTube shows the armed officer, Carolyn Gudger, in a standoff with the gunman at minute 6:32 and beyond.

“There is not a doubt in my mind that Officer Gudger saved lives that day, as did the responding officers who backed her up,” Sullivan County sheriff Wayne Anderson wrote in an email to the Free Beacon.

“What we know is that Thomas Cowan pulled a gun and pointed it at the principal’s face. People typically don’t do something like that unless their intent is to inflict harm. The important thing is he was stopped before he got the opportunity to harm students and staff,” Anderson said.

The shooter may have been intent on pulling the fire alarm, possibly to get children into the hallways and into his path. “We can only speculate about that and I think everyone will speculate why he wanted to pull a fire alarm. We feel it may have been to get the students out of class but we really just will never know sure,” said Anderson.

“I feel we need an armed police officer in every school. They not only serve as a deterrent but, in the event an incident does occur, they don’t have to respond to the school because they are already there. That saves precious time,” Anderson said.

The sheriff said patrol officers started to stop by schools several times a day since the Newtown shooting. “Security in our schools should be a top priority and my hope is that soon we will have a school resource officer in every single one of our schools in Sullivan County.”

Another shooter in a high school in 1997 in Pearl, Miss., was stopped in the midst of a shooting spree when the vice principal ran out to his car, loaded his gun, and held the gunman at bay until police arrived, according to local media reports. The student reportedly wanted to head to another nearby school and kill additional students. He first killed his mother then arrived at Pearl High School and killed two students. No mention of the vice principal’s actions appeared in stories on the shooting published at the time on CNN and in the New York Times.

Obama’s own Justice Department has recommended putting armed guards in schools. The DoJ’s Center for Problem-Oriented Policing issued a report in 2010 that concluded there are possible benefits from having armed officers in schools. “Research suggests that although SRO [security resource officer] programs do not significantly impact youth criminality, the presence of an officer nonetheless can enhance school safety,” the report stated.

The DoJ’s report pointed to two programs in the United Kingdom and Canada. “At least two programs have evaluated specific safety outcomes and found improvements due to the presence of police in schools. These are the Safer Schools Partnership (SSP) in the United Kingdom and the Toronto Police-School Districts School Resource Officer program. These programs hold lessons for school safety efforts in the United States,” the report stated.

Most Americans and a majority of parents with school age children believe a police presence in schools would make them safer, two recent surveys show.

Rasmussen reports 62 percent of parents with school-age children said they would feel safer having an armed guard at school, compared with 22 percent if their child attended a gun-free school. A Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll shows 64 percent of Americans support increasing a police presence in schools while 29 percent oppose it.

Obama’s own daughters have armed officers in their school, according to reports.

http://freebeacon.com/protecting-our-kids/

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