Newt Gingrich, who is still hanging on to his presidential ambitions, has a long record of interest in the United Nations. In the post-Iraq era he was, by Bush-era Republican standards, a bit of UN-booster and led a commission that recommended increasing funding for the organization’s peacekeeping and human rights monitoring. Over the last year, however, he has mainly mentioned the UN when he’s needed an easy political target, and talked about stopping its funding. Yesterday, he adopted a third strategy: advocating positive engagement at the UN as a way to spread guns.
Newt Gingrich accused the National Rifle Association of being “too timid” in a Friday speech to the group.
Desperate for attention and trying to get back into a conversation that has passed him by, the still-technically-running candidate said he will submit a treaty to the United Nations that would make the right to bear arms a universal human right.
“Far fewer women would be raped. Far fewer children would be killed…and far fewer dictators would survive if people had the right to bear arms everywhere on the planet,” Gingrich said, earning a standing ovation from a crowd of thousands. “We should say the second amendment is an amendment for all mankind.”
“Let’s take the George Soros’ and the Hillary Clintons’ head on,” he added.
Now, that’s what I call arms control.
