Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) warned on Thursday that the United Nations was seeking to violate what he described as the god-given right to have guns through its Arms Trade Treaty, which President Barack Obama has suggested he'll sign next month.
"The right to keep and bear arms is granted by God and protecting [sic] from government aggression by the Constitution," Stockman said in a statement. "It is not subject to the whims of global totalitarians massed in New York City.”
Stockman, an avid supporter both of gun rights and colorful rhetoric, went on to say that it was "beyond time for the United States to withdraw from the UN."
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