Venezuela Dictatorship to Arm Brownshirts

ammoland ^ | 22 April, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Venezuela is following a predictable pattern of dictators as they feel threatened. They disarm the general population, while allowing or insuring that their loyalists are armed.

It is a pattern as old as history. The English did it by disarming the Irish, then the Catholics. Responses to the later disarmament brought about the English Bill of Rights, which served as the base for our Second Amendment.

The British did it again in India, after the mutiny/revolt in 1857.

Hitler did it, building on the base that the Weimar Republic built in the late 1920s.  If you were in the SS or SA, you could buy guns. Jews were forced to surrender their weapons.

Only persons of “undoubted reliability” who “demonstrated need” were allowed to obtain “firearms acquisition permits or firearm carry permits”. (page 59, translation, Gateway to Tyranny)

The English gun laws in the 20th century were based on the desire to disarm “unreliable” elements, and give the guns to those in support of the ruling government.

Saddam Hussein gave out guns and gun permits to his supporters.

Venezuela enacted stricter and stricter gun controls over the period of the Chavez/Maduro regime.  Venezuela banned the commercial sale of guns and ammunition in 2012. The murder rate in Venezuela has become one of the highest in the world. Police are routinely murdered for their guns.

But making guns illegal for most of the people is only half of the equation. As Venezuela is falling apart, unable to feed its people or to keep crime under some control, the dictator Maduro has decided to arm those he thinks are loyal.  From foxnews.com:

[marktwain]

Arming your friends and disarming the rest is a very old tyrannical tactic.

[VTenigma]

Nobody saw this coming. *S From the minute Chavez was empowered the outcome was inevitable. A textbook example.

[rrrod]

This is the goal of Democrats......every Democrat

[Sasparilla]

...Only persons of “undoubted reliability” who (demonstrate) need” (are) allowed to obtain “firearms acquisition permits or firearm carry permits...

Sounds like something in a law Diane Feinstein would get passed here. 48 in the Senate would vote for this.

[Catmom]

That explains Berkeley, California.

[Red Badger]

When the Civil War starts in Venezuela, it won’t be pretty....................

[baltimorepoet]

If they make a play for disarmament, that is a declaration of war against those they seek to disarm, and those people need to go after the individual legislators and act like it is a real war.

The opposite of peace is not war; it is surrender.

[treetopsandroofs]

“Venezuela Dictatorship to Arm Brownshirts”

They’re sending cash to the DNC?

[itsahoot]

A country that has more oil than Saudi Arabia can’t feed its people and no one even mentions that.

[TLI]

And the lib-stream media was comparing President Trump to hitler?

I wonder how they are going to “explain” their little South American socialist utopia now?

What with all those evil guns and such...

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[marktwain]

I wonder how they are going to “explain” their little South American socialist utopia now?

What with all those evil guns and such...

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Just like they always do. It is all America’s fault.

If that fails to impress, then it is just the fault of the particular leaders in Venezuela. If only they had followed the correct policies...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

And when he runs out of food for his brownshirts..?

[marktwain]

And when he runs out of food for his brownshirts..?

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Possible... but unlikely. There is enough loot left in Venezuela to sell to buy food for a couple hundred thousands for decades.

For examples of other regimes that got into dire straights, consider Pol Poi... They killed a significant percentage of the population, before Vietnam invaded.

Consider Zimbabwe, starving most of the country, but Mugabe is black and claims “oppression” so he cannot be touched.

Venezuela can still produce enough oil, even at the low prices now, to feed regime supporters, if they kill off 20% of the population.

But they have had less than a generation to indoctrinate their soldiers. They do not have absolute control over the information flow, as in North Korea. They may get overthrown.

Almost anyone could do a better job of running the country.

[thorvaldr]

“Arming your friends and disarming the rest is a very old tyrannical tactic.”

And while the Dems pound on the podium to take my guns away looks like Soros might start arming up antifa.

[PROCON]

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[smokingfrog]

Yep. That’s their idea of “common sense gun laws”.

[Tench_Coxe]

Liberals in the US would love to do the same to their perceived enemies.

[TADSLOS]

Cautionary Tale Ping.

[TADSLOS]

It’s all about the Revolution with these crazy bastards. The bigger the death count, the more glorious the Revolution becomes.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Prepper Ping :" Cautionary Tale Ping."
Might these Venezuelan "colectivos" be the armed civilian police force that was being supported by the previous administration ?

“Colectivos” are government paramilitary supporters on motorcycles who opened fire on crowds, inciting panic and leaving three dead.
"According to the International Crisis Group, colectivos “describe themselves as socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist,
while their activities include vigilantism and social cleansing.”
More information about "colectivos" at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/25/venezuela-motorcycle-gangs-vidoes-colectivos_n_4855640.html

Hat Tip to TADSLOS