Posted on 12/16/2018 10:25:50 AM PST by rktman
While it may seem hard to believe, there was a time when the citizens of Venezuela were allowed to keep and bear arms. This wasnt the distant past were talking about either. It was only in 2012 that the socialist government of Hugo Chavez enacted the Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law. When it was passed, the authors of the legislation pulled no punches, saying that the explicit purpose of the law was to disarm all citizens.
That bill was spectacularly successful, massively reducing the volume of privately owned firearms. Then, when the new tyrant, Nicolas Maduro took power and sent his swarms of federal troops and government militias out into the streets to crush any opposition to his regime, the unarmed populace had little recourse in the face of government guns. This fact is highlighted by a Venezuelan educator now living in exile in Ecuador.
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It is very unfortunate that it has to be this way, but just like the poor the stupid ones will be with us until the end of times. The CREATORS OF THIS GREAT NATIONS knew exactly why they included the second amendment.
Those companies selling home security systems where the front door talks and the entire house has eyes & ears - when the po-po come knocking, what prevents their raid from going viral?
Stone cold real video of doors being smashed in & homeowners proned out by heavily armed goons, enough of that going on youtube could have an effect. This isn’t the KGB.
For the domestic gun grabbers, Venezuela doesn’t exist; ditto Cuba. They’ve deluded themselves into believing that crime will plummet after guns are banned or so thoroughly “regulated” as to disappear, while the truth is that a crime surge usually follows...by the government.
He’s probably right about incomes being more equal now.
Keep your ears to the rails. Freepmail me for more detail.
“As to your question, Im open to ideas.”
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None here,I am as perplexed as you are,and probably older. I look back on the much maligned 50s as utter heaven.
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Yep.
I’ll be around.
Mirror mirror on the wall, we know who the criminals are and they don’t want you fighting them when the time comes
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