UNITED NATIONS (aka U.N.) Fails to reach deal on 2012 global arms trade treaty,
Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on a revised treaty text that closed some key loopholes by Friday's deadline for action. But Russia, China and the U.S.A. announced Friday morning that they will be taking more time to consider the proposed treaty.
Of course most diplomats and treaty supporters blamed just the United States for triggering the unraveling of the month-long negotiating conference.
A bipartisan group of 51 U.S. senators on Thursday had threatened to oppose the global treaty regulating international weapons trade as it falls short in protecting the constitutional right to bear arms.
In a letter to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the senators expressed serious concerns with the draft treaty that has circulated at the United Nations, saying that it signals an expansion of gun control that would be unacceptable and unconstitutional .
The Constitution's Second Amendment guarantees the rights and protection for U.S. civilians to own and bear arms. As recently as 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed it when it struck down a ban on handguns in the District of Columbia, ruling that individuals have a constitutional right to keep guns for self-defense and other purposes.
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