Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

Mike Farris:
As the campaign to seek ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child intensifies, it is important for all Americans to understand how this children’s rights treaty applies to the issue of private gun ownership by American citizens.

The vast majority of Americans agree that children should not be used as soldiers. Accordingly, much of the United Nations literature that addresses children and guns deals with the issue from this military-related standpoint.

However, a second theme is quickly found in virtually all UN pronouncements about child soldiers and weapons. UN child’s rights advocates believe, teach, and promote the idea that all private gun ownership is dangerous for children, and that children have the right to grow up in a gun-free community.

Limiting the rights of gun ownership is not some secret agenda of the UN. It is open for all to see. UNICEF is the official agency charged with the worldwide advancement of children’s rights, and it has published a four-color brochure entitled No Guns, Please: We Are Children.

The brochure goes so far as to say that the very existence of guns violates the human rights of children—an assertion with grave implications for the right to keep and bear arms. I’m Mike Farris.