"For what it is worth".
Not much. Web based polls on a politically slanted website are the farthest thing from "fair and balanced", regardless of the particular slant.
What it IS worth is how effective evangelicals are at pushing the idea that the UN is the anti-christ. Most who oppose the UN don't really know about that hidden motivation in a lot of anti-UN propaganda.
The "take our guns" thing is a good example.
Africa has a number of "child armies". These abominations kill parents, kidnap kids and force them to be soldier/slaves and make them do unspeakable things. They are fed by small arms dealers who don't really care about what happens to the weapons they sell.
The UN, in an attempt to diminish the power of these "child armies" holds a conference and suggests that the international community do something about the free flow of arms.
This conference is then held up and distorted as a UN effort to "git our guns".
All of the anti-UN stuff about UN invasions of American soil etc. follow similar patterns. UN does something, and that something is taken massively out of context. The conspiracy stuff never holds up under actual scrutiny.
Look, I don't by any means feel gun rights advocates are justified in Americans having access to automatic weapons, .50 calibers, etc.Aggie, many Americans want to control and regulate the use of guns.
The Cons ution was written 200 years ago, different reality.
The fact that any moron has the "right" to bear arms, is scary.
But rifles, shotguns, and semi-auto hand guns? Katrina showed everyone that when the hits the fan, there's not near enough police to take care of any problems that arise.
Further, some asshole breaks into my place at 3 AM, what happens if I don't have a way to defend myself? Call 911? It'll be all over but the toe tag and autopsy by the time the cops show up.
Along the same lines, one day I'll have a family. Same deal, someone breaks in and it's all going to be over before dispatch can even get a cop on route. Not my idea of protecting myself or my family. I'll take my 12 gauge and take care of myself, thank you.
I guess you can chalk up the different perspective to living in Texas vs. some other country, I dunno.
As to your assertion that there's a lot of people in the US who want gun control, yeah, we call them extreme liberals. And again, there is a difference between me not being able to pick up an Uzi at Wal-mart and what the UN wants - complete disarmament of all private citizens in all countries world wide, leaving... wait for it... federal armies as the only ones with weapons.
No potential for abuse of power there
That's also why the second amendment was written into our Bill of Rights, to keep like that from going down.
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