Venezuelans Now Regret Giving Up Their Guns – This is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace In 2012, Venezuela’s dictator-for-life President Hugo Chavez had his rubber stamp legislature pass the Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law. The public generally supported it at the time. The law stripped law-abiding Venezuelans of every firearm and round of ammunition they could legally own. As the country and its citizens have increasingly benefitted from the wonders of Bolivarian socialism, it appears that the public now regrets their support for total civilian disarmament. “Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” Javier Vanegas, 28, a Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News. “The government security forces, at the beginning of this debacle, knew they had no real opposition to their force. Once things were this bad, it was a clear declaration of war against an unarmed population.” If only the citizens of Venezuela had the right to keep and bear arms as a check against government tyranny. Once again, another nation demonstrates what can and frequently does happen to a disarmed populace. The despotism pushed by the authoritarian ruling class can proceed full force, with no realistic threat of opposition from the people they subjugate. As the corruption, theft, graft, and fleecing of the treasury and the people continues. The public now is reduced to literally picking through trash for food as millions flee the country. As history has shown, this isn’t a new story. Maria Gabriela Chavez, the dead thug’s daughter, is the the richest woman in Venezuela. That didn’t happen because of her hard work and investing acumen. Also like in other despotic countries, the state is cracking down on anyone it sees as a threat. Teachers, house wives, students, business owners…it doesn’t matter. Speak against the state and it will send its goons after you in the middle of the night to make you disappear. “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.” Kopel has that right. This is exactly what my family went through in Cuba. Venezuelans Now Regret Giving Up Their Guns - This is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace - The Truth About Guns
Note that conditions went from bad to "Hello, Zimbabwe!" in a mere six years or so. That's practically overnight, historically speaking. Now the population is starving, and they have almost no hope of overthrowing the socialists that are in power because they have no guns, and worse yet, no ammunition. Overthrowing a socialist government is a matter of getting rid of roaches before the roaches get rid of you.
Did I ever mention my ancestors left Scotland or be murdered by the British after they disarmed Scotland?
Sure because then they will be rich and we will be, um, equal. Equally poor. One of my ancestors was a feudal king, I am told by my older sisters. My family had an estate and some modicum of wealth in China. Then the communists took over and my family became equal with the rest of the country. Poor and fearful. They fled to America with only their lives and immigrated legally. First my dad, then my mom and my sisters thirteen years later after my dad could work and save enough to send for them.
Glad your Dad did the work , Just like Mine , from Jersey CI to Canukland , he couldn't get work cause of his accent and being a DP. Garbage man to High Rise builder till 2010 ! Me Im tiring to keep up and do my parts . @Hanzo Great Dads !! Sloth
