Posted on 02/26/2019 7:26:43 AM PST by rktman
Critics of the Second Amendment often misunderstand it as primarily a right to hunt and ward off burglars. But America’s Founders viewed the right to bear arms chiefly as a check against government tyranny.
That latter purpose makes perfect sense to at least one Venezuelan who has fled his homeland in the wake of its disastrous socialist experiment.
“Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” said Javier Vanegas, 28, a Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, in an interview with 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,” Vanegas said.
In 2012, President Hugo Chavez pushed through his rubber-stamp legislature the Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law, noted the Truth About Guns blog.
The law, which was generally supported by the public at the time, stripped Venezuelan citizens of every firearm and round of ammunition they owned.
Chavez’s handpicked successor, Nicolas Maduro, has blocked most of the food and medicine supplied by the United States and other countries from crossing the borders with Brazil and Colombia.
At least four people were killed last weekend and hundreds wounded in clashes with protesters and volunteers trying to unload truckloads of aid.
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Ping.
5.56mm
Where is Fast and Furious when people south of our border could really use some guns?
Finally someone gets it.
Finally someone gets it.
Cue Captain Obvious.
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Wouldn’t be muskets against muskets anymore though.
If the tyranny involved the army we would need anti aircraft weapons among other things.
Would be ironic buying from Russia. Not so ironic, Israel.
Will someone please post the thread that mentions what impact an armed society possess? It was a thread with thousands of replies. Can’t find it. Certainly applicable to today’s events in Venezuela.
I am greatly saddened by the fact that our most populous states are limiting magazine sizes, outlawing semi-autos, and making a mockery out of the right to bear arms.
All with the silence of the Supreme Court.
Agreed, they do not misunderstand at all.
They know precisely why they want US disarmed.
Do you hear that America?!
Fixed it.
Well I’m figuring there would be a bunch of ex military with us God forbid that ever happens.
But you’re right.
I wouldn’t know what the heck to do with a shoulder mounted.
Hate to say we told you so, but....
Full auto against full auto. That’s a lot of ammo expended.
Bump
We’re they sold on safety and common sense control?
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