The rights of US citizens should be the foremost concern of a US legislator and when it comes to satisfying a treaty compromising those rights the treaty or international precedence should be thrown out the window.
Article VI of the Constitution explicitly disagrees with you: "[A]ll Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
In other words, the sovereignty was explicitly sacrificed when the treaty was entered into-- and that's the way the Framers intended it.
Yes I understand the law, my protest is in the fact that it is now being used as a technicality to back door legislation that is against the people. My personal feelings on government is that they should act as a framework of government for the citizens interests first. Which is not what we have, we now have a government that finds every loophole available to act in direct contrast to the interest of the people. I don't think I implied that what they where doing was not available to them by the letter of the law. Rather I believe that I stated that I am sick of the letter of the law being a tunnel for anti-rights legislation. Again I go back to the UN small arms gun treaty. Given that they cannot deal with guns in the current domestic framework available, they are position the UN small arms treaty to help them deal with it, through this same backdoor. While it is technically legal, it is totally corrupt.
Article VI of the Constitution explicitly disagrees with you: "[A]ll Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
In other words, the sovereignty was explicitly sacrificed when the treaty was entered into-- and that's the way the Framers intended it.