Venezuela crushes 2,000 guns in public, plans registry of bullets

reuters.com ^ | 8/16/16 | reuters

[ColdOne]

Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world's most crime-ridden countries.

Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods.

[ColdOne]

This is a future headline here if killary wins.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Like this is their biggest problem. Complete societal collapse and a show of gun control is the best thing they can come up with.

Communists. Can’t live with them, can’t get them to leave you alone.

[Red in Blue PA]

This will stop crime!/s

[dfwgator]

The Democrats’ wet dream.

[Biggirl]

.....Another future headline reads “More Americans hiding their guns”.

[Fungi]

Just a show of intimidation to get the populace thinking, we will destroy any resistance.

[yarddog]

I am sure no one saw that coming.

[WENDLE]

Take their oil!!

[rightwingcrazy]

“voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods”

Criminals would use their guns to get “electrical goods”. They wouldn’t need to swap.

[umgud]

The populous will now be at the mercy of thugs and politicians, but I repeat myself.

[ColdOne]

Another one...”Americans losing guns in boating accidents on the rise”

[RetiredTexasVet]

“...through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods...”

You can probably guess which option was the most successful!

[combat_boots]

For toasters and microwaves, you’d trade your weapon?

[bicyclerepair]

Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn’t.

[KC_Lion]

What Separates a Man from a Slave?

Money?

Power?

No

A Man Chooses, A Slave Obeys.

[Iscool]

Venezuela has the world's second highest murder rate and the street gangs that plague its poor neighborhoods have become increasingly heavily armed in recent years, at a time when a deep recession has reduced resources available to police.

Wow...The gang members and criminals are turning in their guns...

[deoetdoctrinae]

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[faithhopecharity]

Venezuela seems to be in a race to the bottom with Iran and maybe North Korea and Syria and Iraq ....

as the world’s worst countries.

it is a crying shame...imho.

[SpaceBar]

Venezuela is on a bullet train to North Korea.

[M Kehoe]

Someone is going to get close to Maduro. His drink, exile to Cuba, a bullet, whatever. If not, “civil” war will ensue.

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