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**Tom Servo** · September 25, 2013, 05:52 PM

Thallub is correct. I don't see it affecting domestic ownership.

The reason I don't care for the treaty is that it's a steaming pile of hypocrisy for us to ratify it. Outside the Soviet Union, we've historically been one of the biggest suppliers of arms to rogue states and organizations. Nicaragua? Liberia? Sudan? Mobutu Soko's regime in the DRC? The Mujahideen, I mean, Taliban? We armed them.

Then there are the 2,000 weapons smuggled to the Sinaloa cartel on this administration's watch. In no conceivable way do we occupy the moral high ground on this one.

September 25, 2013, 05:52 PM	#7
Tom Servo Staff Join Date: September 27, 2008 Location: Foothills of the Appalachians Posts: 13,059	Thallub is correct. I don't see it affecting domestic ownership. The reason I don't care for the treaty is that it's a steaming pile of hypocrisy for us to ratify it. Outside the Soviet Union, we've historically been one of the biggest suppliers of arms to rogue states and organizations. Nicaragua? Liberia? Sudan? Mobutu Soko's regime in the DRC? The Mujahideen, I mean, Taliban? We armed them. Then there are the 2,000 weapons smuggled to the Sinaloa cartel on this administration's watch. In no conceivable way do we occupy the moral high ground on this one.