2. “I just want”: “Obama: We’re Working on Gun Control ‘Under the Radar,’” FoxNews.com, May 25, 2011, http://nation.foxnews.com/guns/2011/05/25/obama-were-working-gun-control-under-radar.
3. “Reversed the policies”: Sara Noble, “Small Arms Treaty of 2012—Elimination of the Second Amendment,” independentsentinel.com, May 17, 2012, http://www.independentsentinel.com/2012/05/small-arms-treaty-of-2012-elimination-of-the-second-amendment/.
4. “governments must resist”: “US joins Arms Trade Treaty talks, but at high price,” Oxfam.org, October 15, 2009, http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2009-10-15/us-joins-arms-trade-treaty-talks-high-price.
5. “[S]mall arms are”: “Small Arms,” UN.org, http://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/SALW/.
6. “But, in the”: United States Crime Rates 1960–2010, disastercenter.com, http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm.
7. “Of these”: “Law enforcement, courts, prisons,” census.gov, http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/12statab/law.pdf.
8. US is the source of: Louis Charbonneau, “Arms trade treaty negotiations begin, Syria casts shadow,” NewsDaily.com, July 2, 2012, http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre861077-us-arms-treaty/.
9. “We do not want”: Ron DePasquale, “Talks Begin at UN on Global Arms Trade Treaty,” ABCnews.go.com, July 3, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/talks-begin-global-arms-trade-treaty-16705286#.T_XnqRx-E3U.
10. “signed off on”: Sara Noble, “Small Arms Treaty of 2012—Elimination of the Second Amendment,” independentsentinel.com, May 17, 2012, http://www.independentsentinel.com/2012/05/small-arms-treaty-of-2012-elimination-of-the-second-amendment/.
11. “disguised as”: Larry Bell, “U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up in Arms,” forbes.com, June 7, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2011/06/07/u-n-agreement-should-have-all-gun-owners-up-in-arms/.
12. “After the treaty”: Sara Noble, “Small Arms Treaty of 2012—Elimination of the Second Amendment,” independentsentinel.com, May 17, 2012, http://www.independentsentinel.com/2012/05/small-arms-treaty-of-2012-elimination-of-the-second-amendment/.
13. “The treaty is”: Ibid.
14. “parties shall take”: Maxim Lott, “Proposed U.N. Treaty to Regulate Global Firearms Trade Raising Concern for U.S. Gun Makers,” FoxNews.com, August 5, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/05/proposed-un-treaty-to-regulate-global-firearms-trade-raising-concerns-for-us/.
15. “The UN’s actions”: Julian Pecquet, “Opposition to UN arms treaty heats up,” thehill.com, July 2, 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/un-treaties/235999-opposition-to-un-arms-trade-treaty-heats-up.
16. “Any international Arms”: Chris Cox quoted in Julian Pecquet, “Opposition to UN arms treaty heats up,” The Hill, July 2, 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/un-treaties/235999-opposition-to-un-arms-trade-treaty-heats-up.
17. “on behalf of”: NRA, “Beware Gun Owners, U.N. Moves Forward on Arms Trade Treaty,” July 12, 2012, http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/nra-fights-second-amendment-un-moves-forward-arms-trade-treaty.
18. “Americans should realize”: Ted R. Bromund, “The Risks the Arms Trade Treaty Poses to the Sovereignty of the United States,” Heritage Foundation, June 4, 2012, http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/pdf/ib3622.pdf.
19. “This is a fantasy”: Ibid.
20. “like the plague”: Peter Brookes, “A Bad UN Idea on Arms Deals,” nypost.com, July 1, 2012, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bad_un_idea_on_arms_deals_7lTtoMqhmKFD2UnyGLf5qO.
21. “The treaty will”: Ibid.
22. “[W]ho really expects”: Ibid.
PART THREE
1. “thirty years ago, President Ronald Reagan”: Donald Rumsfeld, “Why the U.N. Shouldn’t Own the Seas,” http://online.wsj.com/home-page, June 12, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303768104577460890850883780.html.
2. “What this treaty proposes is nothing”: Ibid.
3. “But isn’t that what”: Ibid.
4. “no national interest”: Dr. Harold Pease, “Treaty to Give the Oceans to the United Nations, Now Before the Senate,” http://www.libertyunderfire.org/, June 11, 2012, http://www.libertyunderfire.org/2012/06/treaty-to-give-the-oceans-to-the-united-nations-now-before-the-senate/.
5. “The treaty’s provisions were”: Edwin Meese III, “Still lost on the Law of the Sea Treaty,” http://www.latimes.com/, June 5, 2012, http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-meese-law-of-the-sea-20120605,0,6473043.story.
6. “the treaty would resurrect”: Doug Bandow, “Cato Institute Foreign Policy Briefing No. 32: Faulty Repairs: The Law of the Sea Treaty is Still Unacceptable,” Cato.org, September 12, 1994, http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb032.pdf.
7. “euphemistically called the”: Ibid.
8. http://www.filmsite.org/night.html.
9. “no fight was more important”: Doug Bandow, “Cato Institute Foreign Policy Briefing No. 32: Faulty Repairs: The Law of the Sea Treaty is Still Unacceptable,” Cato.org, September 12, 1994, http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb032.pdf.
10. “may be worth”: Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator John Cornyn, “The Law of the Sea treaty will sink America’s economy,” Foxnews.com, May 23, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/23/law-sea-treaty-will-sink-america-economy/.