Perspective
Feb. 8, 2013
Weapons regulation: 'a national interest of very nearly the first magnitude'
President Barack Obama can achieve gun control through a treaty. No doubt this would be controversial. By Joseph F.C. DiMento
President Barack Obama can achieve gun control through a treaty. To meet his promise to "do everything in his power" to decrease gun violence he can act the way the U.S. did to address another "national interest of very nearly the first magnitude" - one, like gun violence, "a matter of the sharpest exigency for the national wellbeing."
The president, through the treaty power of the U.S., can enter int...
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