CAM EDWARDS EMAILS:

I’m in NYC this week, covering the UN’s 2nd Biennial Meeting on Small Arms and Light Weapons. We’ll have extensive coverage at www.nranews.com, including interviews with folks like Bob Barr, Tony Bernardo from the Canadian Institute for Legislative Action, Dave Kopel, Tom Kilgannon from the Freedom Alliance, and hopefully yourself.

I’m supposed to be on about 4:20 Eastern time. It’s worth noting the role that small arms confiscation has played in the run-up to genocide in several parts of the world. I recommend this forthcoming article by Dave Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne Eisen, along with this article from the Washington University Law Quarterly by Daniel Polsby and Don Kates. And here’s my column from a couple of years ago suggesting that the right to arms should be an international human right.

The U.N. seems to feel differently, of course, but given its record of supineness — if not outright complicity — in the face of genocide, that isn’t much of an objection.