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Venezuela destroys 30,000 guns
Reuters ^
| Nov 12, 2009
| Jack Daniel
Posted on 11/13/2009 5:47:22 PM PST by george76
Battling with one of the world's highest murder rates, Venezuela on Wednesday crushed more than 30,000 guns seized from the streets during police raids this year.
Policemen used blow-torches to chop up some of shotguns and pistols. They compacted weapons including home-made pistols into a 5 ton block...
"This act forms part of the disarmament policies that we have been promoting."
With 13,000 murders in 2007...
Venezuela's murder rate is about 8 times that of the United States.
Crime has risen under President Hugo Chavez...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; bang; banglist; caracas; chavez; crime; hugochavez; secondamendment; venezuela
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posted on
11/13/2009 5:47:22 PM PST
by
george76
To: george76
So much for this gun burning.
2
posted on
11/13/2009 5:49:51 PM PST
by
Ptarmigan
(God Hates Bunnies. God Loves Ptarmigans)
To: george76
figured I would get it in first, Coming soon to your home town.
3
posted on
11/13/2009 5:50:03 PM PST
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate taglines but I don't know how.)
To: george76
Hugo’s thugs want to operate unopposed.
4
posted on
11/13/2009 5:51:58 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: george76
Hugo joins a long line of other socialists...
5
posted on
11/13/2009 5:51:59 PM PST
by
EternalVigilance
(We're witnessing the slow strangulation death of American republican self-government and liberty.)
To: george76
>>>
With 13,000 murders in 2007... Venezuela's murder rate is about 8 times that of the United States.<<<
Obama'a friend Hugo Chavez - building another Socialist paradise?
6
posted on
11/13/2009 5:55:39 PM PST
by
HardStarboard
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
To: george76
"This act forms part of the disarmament policies that we have been promoting."Just wait....just wait....
Our cities are next.
7
posted on
11/13/2009 5:58:10 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: VaRepublican
The only way anyone’s getting mine will be bullets first—one at a time.
8
posted on
11/13/2009 5:59:22 PM PST
by
Trod Upon
(Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
To: george76
Crime has risen under President Hugo Chavez...This ought to say something......
9
posted on
11/13/2009 6:01:39 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
To: george76
Policemen used blow-torches to chop up some of shotguns and pistols. I'd have to see that.
10
posted on
11/13/2009 6:02:06 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Really up-to-date liberals do not care what people do, as long as it is compulsory - George Will)
To: EGPWS
Help make Hussian the gun salesman of the century! Plenty ammo too,
barbra ann
11
posted on
11/13/2009 6:02:45 PM PST
by
barb-tex
(She is one of us)
To: george76
Communists brook no opposition.
12
posted on
11/13/2009 6:05:16 PM PST
by
Nuc1
(NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
To: george76
Tragic. Hopefully not a glimpse of our future.
13
posted on
11/13/2009 6:05:47 PM PST
by
Dayman
(My 1919a4 is named Charlotte. When I light her up she has the voice of an angel.)
To: george76
14
posted on
11/13/2009 6:20:28 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Ask not what the Kennedys can do for you, but what you can do for the Kennedys.)
To: george76
An Obama and ‘Rat wet dream...
To: george76
I’ve been contemplating trading in three rarely used pistols for a carbine (liberals would call it an assault weapon) that I would use more often. After reading this, I think I’ll hold on to the pistols and just save up for the carbine.
A few years from now, I bet this will pay dividends. As those poor souls at Ft. Hood would attest, when you need it, a gun is worth more than money.
16
posted on
11/13/2009 6:27:41 PM PST
by
msg-84
(Semper Fidelis)
To: george76
17
posted on
11/13/2009 6:38:38 PM PST
by
RavenATB
To: msg-84
Add a bit more for an NRA membership.
18
posted on
11/13/2009 6:43:43 PM PST
by
Shooter 2.5
(NRA /Patron - TSRA- IDPA)
To: george76
Hugo Chavez’s murder rate will most likely go up after depriving his slaves of self defense. Reuters is as bad as AP.
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posted on
11/13/2009 6:45:06 PM PST
by
gorilla_warrior
(Metrosexual hairless RINOs for hopey-changey bipartisan-ness)
To: Ptarmigan
What a waste. No telling how many of those firearms were rare or old varieties no longer being made. And even if they were just run of the mill rifles, no point in destroying a good tool.
I hope we have the foresight to stop that from happening here.
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