On Arms
Category: Gun Control
Decision: Relax
RECOGNIZING the member-states of the World Assembly vary widely in technological progress, culture, development indices, urban to rural population ratio, crime rates, and practically all other vital statistics;
ACKNOWLEDING over-arching legislation will cause widespread issues, due to the aforementioned factors and any other factor unmentioned;
ACCEPTING circumstances inside a nation may require the relaxing or tightening of gun laws; on a scale of national, state, municipal or other internal governing body;
BELIVING that the rights of the People should not be impeded without reason;
COMITTED to public health, safety and security;
The General Assembly,
DEFINES "The People", "Citizens", "People", and other synonyms to be all citizens of member states, regardless of race, tongue, sex, religion, or political philosophy;
DEFINES "Firearms" as any and all weapons capable of discharging projectiles to cause signifigant bodily harm;
DEFINES "Ammunition" as any expendable item or unit which the Firearm discharges, or is needed for the discharge of the Firearm;
DEFINES "Acquisition" as the right to not be unduly burdened in purchasing Firearms, Ammunition, or any object or item related to the safe keeping and maintaince of such;
DEFINENS "Use" as target practice, weapons drills, safety practice, hunting, cleaning, self defense, and any other reasonable and practical use of a Firearm;
HERBY OBLIGES Member States to extend the following Rights:
Article 1. The rights in Article 2 of the Convention on the Keeping and Bearing of Arms must be extended to, but are by no means limited to, the following groups:
I. People living outside reasonable response time of local authorities in case of a crime against their person or other imminent threat to home, life or livelihood;
II. Collectors;
III. Hunters;
IV. People whom have reasonable fear of an armed attempt on their life;
NOTES that Article 1, Subsection III does not mandate or comment on the legality of Hunting in member states and shall not be construed as such;
REITERATES Article 2 Rights are in no means limited to the groups named in Article 1, and may be expanded by individual nations;
Article 2. Grants the following Rights;
I. Acquisition, Safe Keeping and Use of Firearms with no unreasonable restriction thereof;
II. Not to be deprived of the aforementioned Rights except in cases of criminal offense, Mental Incapability, and gross negligence
III. Not to be judged Mentally Incapable without the signed, written agreement of no less than two (2) medically trained and certified Doctors;
FURTHERMORE;
FIREARMS banned by national or international laws shall not be confiscated without due compensation;
RECOMENDS World Assembly Nations expand the Rights contained herein to the greatest extent reasonable and practical for each individual nation
OOC: This is very obviously my first attempt at any sort of draft for the WA. I don't have the two endorsements to propose it currently but I have enough people in my region who said they'd endorse me if I wanted to propose a resolution. I think Article 2.II/III is the weak link, personally.