Letter: You can’t spell nuts without U.N.

The United Nations allows me to vent my anger not only at its nutty proposals to get headlines, but at Americans who agree with them.

The proposed treaty to ban the sale of arms between nations sounds good but is not enforceable. It could be the first step to destroying our Second Amendment right, prohibiting law-abiding U.S. citizens from owning guns for target, sports competition, hunting and collectors of old arms. We have over 1,000 gun laws, and some prevent a crime before it happens.

Most, if not all, of our laws are to punish lawbreakers, but it is after the law has been broken. Most guns used in a crime were secured by theft or bought from other criminals. Honest gun dealers will not sell to felons and people who have domestic violations or other charges. This can mean a crime was stopped before it happens.

The U.N. and our Congress should not allow them to go beyond national transactions that could lead to amendments to our Constitution. There will always be unscrupulous people who will sell arms, and until arms are taken away from insurgents, such a treaty is nuts — but it sounds good.

It’s not just guns, but I am against any attempt by the U.N. to interfere with our sovereignty in any area, and it should be opposed.

Joe Fanelli/Naples