MSNBC: The People In Venezuela Have No Guns, And So Therefore No Power

Hotair ^ | 04/30/2019 | Ed Morrissey

[Reily]

Well duh!

[OttawaFreeper]

“People in the US scoff at this argument from gun-rights advocates, mainly because we’re not Venezuela and the threat here is entirely theoretical. “

These people should always be reminded of the fact that it would take American and Canadian criminals (along with a few Adam Lanzas and Gamil Gharbis and Dylan Klebolds) many hundreds of centuries to equal the number murdered in the last century by four governments (Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Communist China, and Pol Pot’s Cambodia) that disarmed it’s citizens upon taking power.

[lurk]

We thank MSNBC for making the case for 2A and its designed purpose.

[Campion]

we’re not Venezuela and the threat here is entirely theoretical

... for now.

[Biggirl]

Even this economy has let’s just say put a forever “dent”on 8 years of Obama.

[PIF]

The Chinese and the Iranians can stay?

[Stayfree]

YES...millions of guns, ammo, hand grenades, armor-piercing bullets and bazookas, c-4 explosive material with fuses, gas masks, body armor, grenade launchers, etc..................and food and medicine!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Good idea. We should supply arms to the Venezuelan freedom fighters. Just IMHO.

[Freedom4US]

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

"Often attributed to Stalin, there is not a single source which show that Stalin said this at any given time. There is only one source outside the blogosphere which attributes the quote to Stalin, but does not provide any evidence for the attribution. That source is the book Quotations for Public Speakers : A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology (2001), p. 121 by the former US senator Robert Torricelli."

The problem is, it doesn't matter how many times people repeat it, or how many websites, if it can't be found in his writings, or his daughter says "Yeah, he said that all the time", he's quoted in the New York Times, etc. If you check the link you'll find he DID say quite a few things, but hardly ever what is actually attributed. Total Grade A f$@cking asshole though.

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

[RatRipper]

Please accept my apology. Being the very hard-working guy I am with virtually no down time, I cannot fact check every quote quote site on the internet.

[Freedom4US]

Well... OK. We’ll let you off with a warning this time. Slow down.

Don’t let it happen again. /jk