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Venezuelans regret gun ban, 'a declaration of war against an unarmed population'
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:16 pm
This is why we have the 2nd Amendment!
Fox News article
Under the direction of then-President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan National Assembly in 2012 enacted the “Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law,” with the explicit aim to “disarm all citizens.” The law took effect in 2013, with only minimal pushback from some pro-democracy opposition figures, banned the legal commercial sale of guns and munitions to all - except government entities.
“Venezuelans didn’t care enough about it. The idea of having the means to protect your home was seen as only needed out in the fields. People never would have believed they needed to defend themselves against the government,” Vanegas explained. “Venezuelans evolved to always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.”
“Venezuela shows the deadly peril when citizens are deprived of the means of resisting the depredations of a criminal government,” said David Kopel, a policy analyst, and research director at the Independence Institute and adjunct professor of Advanced Constitutional Law at Denver University. “The Venezuelan rulers – like their Cuban masters – apparently viewed citizen possession of arms as a potential danger to a permanent communist monopoly of power.”
Fox News article
Under the direction of then-President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan National Assembly in 2012 enacted the “Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law,” with the explicit aim to “disarm all citizens.” The law took effect in 2013, with only minimal pushback from some pro-democracy opposition figures, banned the legal commercial sale of guns and munitions to all - except government entities.
“Venezuelans didn’t care enough about it. The idea of having the means to protect your home was seen as only needed out in the fields. People never would have believed they needed to defend themselves against the government,” Vanegas explained. “Venezuelans evolved to always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.”
“Venezuela shows the deadly peril when citizens are deprived of the means of resisting the depredations of a criminal government,” said David Kopel, a policy analyst, and research director at the Independence Institute and adjunct professor of Advanced Constitutional Law at Denver University. “The Venezuelan rulers – like their Cuban masters – apparently viewed citizen possession of arms as a potential danger to a permanent communist monopoly of power.”
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:17 pm to cajuncarguy
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:20 pm to cajuncarguy
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always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.
putting that much faith in government is always a dumb idea
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:22 pm to cajuncarguy
quote:
This is why we have the 2nd Amendment!
Pfft, Venezuela doesn't need guns to defend themselves. Don't be silly.
There were almost 27,000 violent deaths in the country last year, with Venezuela having the second highest murder rate in the world after El Salvador, according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, a local crime monitoring group.
National homicide rates rose each year from 67 murders per 100,000 people in 2011 to 92 in 2016, before dipping to 89 last year, according to the group.
The homicide rate in Caracas alone was 104 per 100,000 people in 2017, the group said. New York, in contrast, had a homicide rate of 3 per 100,000 last year and most European cities had less than 1.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:27 pm to cajuncarguy
quote:You don't frickin' say...how this is not obvious to anyone with a functioning brain baffles me.
Venezuelans regret gun ban, 'a declaration of war against an unarmed population' by cajuncarguy
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:31 pm to cajuncarguy
Wait . A non-tyrannical government can become tyrannical over time ? I SERIOUSLY doubt that. That's CRAZY talk.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:31 pm to cajuncarguy
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Ops. didn't see it.
No worries; I have a bad habit of making up my own titles
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:33 pm to cajuncarguy
No matter how much you tell a liberal this, no matter how much evidence you present, they simply refuse to accept this.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:34 pm to Lsupimp
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A non-tyrannical government can become tyrannical over time ?
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:35 pm to cajuncarguy
Socialism just hasn't been done right yet
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:36 pm to cajuncarguy
But this was a totally unpredictable outcome! Who could have even thought of it!
Posted on 12/14/18 at 12:38 pm to cajuncarguy
People don't need to have guns, we have the police to protect us locally and the military to protect us from other countries.
Oh, hey, come on, we are going to protest the police for shooting someone.
Oh, hey, come on, we are going to protest the police for shooting someone.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 1:16 pm to cajuncarguy
"always hope...".
Hope is not a strategy.
Hope is not a strategy.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 1:20 pm to cajuncarguy
That will happen here also if they take our guns
Posted on 12/14/18 at 2:33 pm to cajuncarguy
Personally I fully support the liberals giving up their guns. I ain't giving up mine.
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