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Obama Says He's "Constrained" by the Constitution, Right Wing Bloggers Rave Like Loons

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jaunte4/04/2013 11:05:31 am PDT

More legal misinformation, just in from today’s Fox News Panic Email
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…Megyn asked why – if the Constitution trumps any international treaty – Abbott thinks Americans should be concerned about the United Nations arms agreement. Abbott says his concern is that the U.S. government will use the U.N. as a “backdoor mechanism” to impose gun control measures that they can’t pass in Congress.
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“This is a step in a very dangerous direction. The argument can be made that the treaty is worded so vaguely that there is no specific violation of the Second Amendment right now, but there could be a violation later on depending on the way that the United Nations applies and interprets this treaty,” said Abbott.