This is what the DamnedOldCrats have in mind for us.
Never give up your guns!
I know the Neocons running the show in DC are chomping to “regime change” in Venezuela, but it is not our problem.
"...Venezuelans now regret giving-up their guns..."
There is a reason leftists love Venezuela and Cuba.
So, are the members of the Venezuelan military and police so well taken care of that they’re bling to the suffering of the people? Does Maduro treat them like the Norks, where the military is loyal because they get taken care, while the people are happy to catch a few rats?
This has the potential to speak volumes if things start to slide, even faster, downhill in this country if we all think that the police and cops will line up with the people.
ALL gun control schemes are baby steps toward total disarmament of the people.
On the lighter brighter side while it's harder to commit suicide, it's easier to starve to death, and much easier for the State to murder you... And still there are fools in our country who have fallen under the spell of socialism...
No one wants to take your guns away. Today.
The liberals plan to gradually make gun ownership so difficult and expensive that many will give them up. They won’t try outlawing and confiscation because that would result in a shooting war that they could not win.
First, they will outlaw certain types of guns. Any firearm that can accept a detachable magazine will become an “assault weapon”. Your scoped .30-06 deer rifle will become a “sniper rifle”. Your 12 gauge pump shotgun will become a “street sweeper”. They will outlaw “armor piercing” ammunition which will be defined as any bullet that can penetrate soft body armor. All replacement parts for your firearms will be prohibited from being manufactured or sold.
Then they will institute high capacity magazine bans and prohibitions against transferring them, safe storage requirements, mandatory liability insurance, registration, restrictions on where and how you can carry and use a gun, violation of any one of them will be a felony that takes away your RKBA. They will require expensive and lengthy “safety training”.
Then there will be high taxes on ammunition and firearms, background checks before you can buy ammunition or reloading components, universal background checks on firearms, elimination of instant background checks, mandatory waiting periods where the government can delay approval indefinitely where your social media posts will be scrutinized for “troubling” posts.
They will have secret “no buy” lists that any politician, law enforcement officer or bureaucrat can add to and no one is allowed to see. There will be with no due process once your name is on it. There will be “red flag laws” where anyone can report you as a “threat” where your firearms can be seized without due process.
There will be a ban on the manufacture of new firearms, except to the government, of course, and a total ban on the transfer of existing firearms, even to relatives in a will.
And don’t forget about “smart guns” which will be ridiculously expensive, unreliable, and easily overridden and defeated to make it possible for the government to disable them remotely. All new firearms will be required to have them and eventually they will require ALL firearms to be retrofitted with them. Which is impossible of course, but anyone caught with a dumb gun will be charged with a felony and jailed.
All of this will be done a step at a time with the promise of safety. Their safety. As the sit behind desks in buildings with bulletproof glass and ride around in armored limousines living in the best houses and eating the finest food your money can buy.
During all this, your children and grandchildren will be flooded with propaganda that tells them that no one needs guns and that they should rat out family members and friends with “illegal” guns and how “good citizens” turn in grandpop’s guns when he dies.
By that time, the citizens will be brainwashed into believing that it’s for their own good as the warden slams the doors shut.
saw a movie once where only the gov and cops had guns, it was called Schindler's List
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First they take the guns. Then they take your freedom and your money. Always.
We have been warned. They [the Left] are not bull shitting. They fully intend to exterminate[kill] us. If we choose to aid and abet them in our murders by giving up our guns, it is on us.
Do Venezuelans regret supporting socialists? Everything I’ve read says they do not. The believe that corruption killed their socialist paradise. The vast majority of them voted for free $***t. They traded their guns for butter. Now that the butter has turned rancid they’d like to have their guns back.
Reminds me of all the people who believe that the Social Security is simply mismanaged and that there would be plenty of money (for their monthly check) if government wasn’t so wasteful.
We have a ways to go since the rest of the world is still willing to lend us piles of money. But we are headed there.
At least that is what the helpful people insisting we do the same thing are telling us in this country.
GREAT post, GREAT comments.