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Venezuela crushes 2,000 guns in public, plans registry of bullets
reuters.com ^
| 8/16/16
| reuters
Posted on 08/17/2016 4:48:34 PM PDT by ColdOne
Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world's most crime-ridden countries.
Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: ammo; baglist; banglist; control; gun; socialism; venezuela
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
It’s the biggest problem for the commie elite- can’t have the peasants able to stage an effective revolt ...
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:07:54 PM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: ColdOne
bs. here it will be a freaking bloodbath.
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:11:18 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: ColdOne
Knives, lighters, machetes, petro bombs, brass knuckles, forks, chainsaws, baseball bats ....
Venezuela might as well ban walking in public.
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:11:56 PM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(*Convicted of thought crimes by the Left and the Right*)
To: NativeSon
Correct. Disarming the common man is an important step by the elites in controlling them.
The U.S. elites are attempting the same.
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:11:59 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
To: yarddog
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:12:02 PM PDT
by
lightman
(I'm nobody special...just a follower of the siren call of the Ison.)
To: ColdOne
You have to disarm them before they can be dragged out to the killing fields.
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:12:33 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(If Trump loses, America dies)
To: Red in Blue PA
this is not for that. it is to keep the socialists safe as they go about terrorizing people.
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:12:33 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: bicyclerepair
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:13:27 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: ColdOne
looks like no more hunting ,if there’s anything left to hunt
To: ColdOne
Venezuela...a globalist-pest stress test? Yes.
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:14:20 PM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(FUMSM)
To: ColdOne
THERE
IS
NO
FOOD
OR
MEDICINE
IN
VENEZUELA
...for anyone except Government officials.
Is it any wonder they are confiscating the people's weapons?
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:19:03 PM PDT
by
golux
To: ColdOne
They don’t want the citizens to go all shootie on them.
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:20:32 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: ColdOne
Caracas has the highest murder rate in the world!!!
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:22:28 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
To: Biggirl
Future? No one should be waiting!
To: M Kehoe
Why are they waiting, for things to get even worse ( if that’s even possible)?
To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
The only good Commie is ......
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:27:25 PM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: ColdOne
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:32:09 PM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
("If guns cause crime, there must be something wrong with mine." -Ted Nugent)
To: yarddog
Wow and the tyrannical hacks in CA’s legislature are doing the exact same thing over. And, it passed!
To: ColdOne
Hmmm, when Hugo was alive they were building AKs to kill Yankees.
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:38:48 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: WENDLE
It’s crappy sulfur crude.
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posted on
08/17/2016 5:40:04 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
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