A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Arms Trade Treaty

By Ammoland

by Alan J Chwick & Joanne D Eisen

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- A funny thing happened on the way to the attempted disarmament of sovereign nations, in Geneva, this past September 2017. The UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) began to show the spider cracks of failure. We knew it would happen, but not as rapidly as it appeared during the third annual meeting.

The mutiny of member nations against the ATT proponents has begun.

The idea of a global treaty emerged because of the early failures in the 90’s of civil society peace and disarmament groups, called Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), to disarm civilians and reduce violence. Their theory goes, fewer weapons, less crime, and violence. They repeatedly failed to panic or coerce people into disarming.

Those groups discovered early on that individual people do not easily accept voluntary or forced disarmament. The black market enters the picture and helps both the criminal and the frightened civilian to rearm, albeit illegally. So it would be with nations. The black market in arms is ready and willing to provide weapons, as shown by past UN embargoes on rogue nations …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand