Obama Just Sent the Arms Trade Treaty to the Senate. Thankfully It Doesn’t Matter

By Ammoland

This article first appeared at the Daily Signal.

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Last week, the Obama administration took a step that conservatives have been anticipating for three years: it transmitted the Arms Trade Treaty to the Senate for ratification.

This move doesn’t matter.

The treaty is supposedly designed to control the international trade of weapons. It was adopted through the United Nations in 2013, and 91 nations have since ratified it.

The Arms Trade Treaty is a bad treaty, and it hasn’t gotten any better with age. In fact, the problems with it have only become more obvious. Only the European nations pretend to uphold it, while major arms exporters like Russia and China oppose it.

This treaty is failing because it has no connection to reality.

It is based on the fantasy that an international agreement can cause incompetent or dictatorial regimes to behave better, and the mistaken view that wars are caused by guns, not the regimes that use them.

The treaty’s left-wing advocates are stubbornly unwilling to condemn the autocracies for their arms trafficking, but are …Read the Rest

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