Second Amendment Foundation Remarks Before UN Stopped by Storm, but Message Important, Powerful

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Julianne Versnel

REPORT FROM SAF – BELLEVUE, WA – It took a hurricane to prevent it, but remarks originally scheduled to be delivered today at the United Nations by the Second Amendment Foundation still carry more clout than a storm, said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb.

SAF’s Julianne Versnel was in New York Sunday when the oncoming hurricane caused the UN to shut down. But her message will resonate with armed citizens, and especially female gun owners, who understand that attempts to push global gun control and minimize the right of self-defense are a threat to liberty and human rights.

Her scheduled remarks are underscored by messages on social media about planned looting by thugs taking advantage of the storm. Those reports are currently sizzling across the Internet forums, and Versnel said they are eerily reminiscent of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when people were deliberately disarmed amid widespread looting and anarchy.

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Versnel was prepared to say that, “The right of self-defense is a right that is particularly important to women.” This would have a significant bearing on future work to adopt an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) or a Programme of Action (POA).

“We have a right to protect our bodies, to protect ourselves against assault and rape,” her statement says. “No one questions that violence against women is endemic. Mr. Chairman there are those who say women should rely on the police, the authorities, or even the UN for protection. Mr. Chairman, I reject this idea. In fact Mr. Chairman, this concept is part of the outmoded and disproved idea that women are somehow weaker and must rely on men for their protection.

“Most of the delegates here know that in the US there is extensive firearms ownership,” her statement continues. “What they do not know is that almost half of the handguns in the US are owned by women. They are used for self-defense by women. I fully endorse, as should every person in this room, the idea that women must have the means to defend themselves. Nothing that is before this Committee should affect a women’s right to defend herself.”

Versnel was set to remind the panel about the late Eleanor Roosevelt’s travels through the South to defend integration in 1958. She carried a .38-caliber revolver after being advised by the Secret Service against making the trip.

“No one supported the UN more than she did,” Versnel’s remarks note, “but at the same time she insisted on her right, as a woman and as a person, to have the means to defend herself.”

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. In addition to the landmark McDonald v. Chicago Supreme Court Case, SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; New Orleans; Chicago and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and numerous amicus briefs holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.

 

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  1. For most of us, this article is good, and it is preaching to the choir. To those who oppose our freedoms – sociopaths all, none of this will make any difference, as they are on an agenda to kill our country and kill our independence and our freedoms.

    We have to understand that war has been declared on us by the hidden elites and by our increasingly totalitarian government which no longer represents our people, and we must respond accordingly. The UN is just a tool being used to help destroy our sovereignty, and remember, disarming a people immediately precedes genocidal warfare against the people. Think about that for a moment.

    Then, if you choose to remain and fight the tyranny, think about which U.S. states are the freest and which states will force the feds and the UN to back down. Think about the hidden sociopath elites who really control our government and our economy, and who want 6 billion of the world's population killed off simply because our numbers make it difficult for them to control us. Think about ways to defeat their evil plans.

    These are not good times we are entering – they are reminiscent of pre WW II Europe. The drums of war are beating. The preppers see the problem. Those fleeing the USA to other countries see the problem. Those shutting down their businesses see the problem. Our seniors see the problem. Our patriots see the problem.

    How about you? Do you see the problem?

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