I have no problems with the second amendment. I think, like not yelling "Fire" in a crowd, it could use some limitations, but overall I have no real issues with it.
By a bureaucratic accident, I was a registered Republican in my state for two years. The result is that I'm still on some odd call lists, so I was not overly surprised to get a call where the ID said "NRA" and a number. (A number that goes to their "update center", apparently.) I figured a poll or a fundraising effort. I rather enjoy these calls, actually.
But what the caller told me was out there (I thought) even for the more rightwing parts of the NRA.
I was informed that the United Nations was planning, in secret, to pass a resolution to ban all personal ownership of guns worldwide. And they would be using foreign troops on the ground to do it. The gentleman was nice, with a slight Texas twang, but I couln't believe my ears. My first thought was, "These guys can't coordinate food for oil, how could they coordinate that?" I was dubious, so I halted his effort to play a taped message and ask me a "one question poll" to ask for more info.
He directed me to the NRA site (where I have since looked, but not found anything like what he was talking about), but I was just killing time while hitting the search to find a U.N. statement on the issue. The U.N. is interested in the international arms trade, not personal ownership in individual nation-states. Something the articles on the NRA site that I did find said quite clearly before veering into wingnuttery.
The most recent (non-NRA) claim I could find that the U.N. wants to take all our guns was this article on WorldNetDaily, but it's been around for at least a decade (as seen in here on NewsMax. Any reading of the U.N. intention by any rational person makes it very clear that it's the arms trade, especially to unstable or terrorist nations, that's the issue.
But anything to scare the people about the big bad liberal/international/new world order folk. We saw this with Glenn Beck and his "Obama's coming for your guns!" crap. And now they're calling people to spread this garbage.
Anyway, I read him the salient points from the U.N. release, wished him well in spreading fear to people who didn't do their own research and hung up. Two regrets, though; I wish I had gotten a "John Birch Society" comment in, and I wonder what that one question was going to be.