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Venezuelans regret giving up guns
wnd.com ^ | 2/25/2019 | unknown

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; kaba; venezuela
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To: DownInFlames

Yeah I’ll be behind you guys preparing dinner for everyone for after the battle!!


21 posted on 02/26/2019 7:46:31 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Slyfox

“Where is Fast and Furious when people south of our border could really use some guns?”

Obama probably gave arms to Chavez and Maduro.


22 posted on 02/26/2019 7:47:28 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus" maneo)
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To: Impala64ssa

“...The law, which was generally supported by the public at the time, ,..”

Must have been a lot of Venezuelan style democrats.


23 posted on 02/26/2019 7:50:07 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus" maneo)
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To: rktman

It’s no coincidence that not long after giving up their guns, Venezuelans found themselves giving up food, too. And it wasn’t because they couldn’t go hunting. For food, that is.


24 posted on 02/26/2019 7:50:44 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: dp0622

Not as much as you might think.

Generally, the guys running the high ticket items are family men. Twenty year old troopers taking orders from a quasi-father figure, sure. But the guys the military has deep investment in usually have their own deep investments.

Oh, I’m sure they wouldn’t be living in their own AOs, but would you want to foment genuine, justifiable, domestic, murderous rage against yourself, then try to raise your family in suburbia?


25 posted on 02/26/2019 7:52:21 AM PST by papertyger (Now we know why Star Chambers were a thing.)
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To: dp0622
I wouldn’t know what the heck to do with a shoulder mounted.

They are exceptionally simple to use. They even have printed instructions on the side.

  1. Find unused shoulder-fired weapon
  2. Place on shoulder (pad indicates proper location on ordnance, directional arrow indicates business end)
  3. Place firing hand on handle with trigger
  4. Point at intended target
  5. Being aware of what is behind you, take ordnance off of safe and pull trigger
  6. Repeat as unexpended ordnance allows

26 posted on 02/26/2019 7:52:53 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: cornfedcowboy; dp0622; Army Air Corps
"What good is a handgun against an army", IIRC.

I don't know where it is but I'm sure someone does.

I think the theme of it is asymmetrical opposition, as in the Apparatchiks of the state would still be seen being driven to work, etc.

Of course that would work both ways. Leaders of a militant opposition could/would get a phone call: "We've got your wife. Here, hang on a second, we'll let you talk to her..."

So it gets very ugly very fast, but one might think it would still be preferable to Venezuela because there would at least be a chance...

27 posted on 02/26/2019 7:53:30 AM PST by OKSooner (Green New Deal: "If you like your air conditioner you can keep your air conditioner.")
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To: rktman
Good Grief!!!

Our leftist monsters here are drooling buckets in their quest to murder millions and millions of people here.
They aren't even trying to hide it anymore.

They are already killing babies and old people. They want more. More death. More horror.

These people are stupid, but not nearly as stupid as the people who keep mistaking liberals/socialists/communists/etc. for humans.
They are not human.
They are mass-murdering monsters.

28 posted on 02/26/2019 7:53:51 AM PST by meadsjn
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To: papertyger

Hmm. Interesting.


29 posted on 02/26/2019 7:54:30 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: rjsimmon

It does seem simple enough but i just know I’d kill 20 of us by accident :(

I’ll let a southern boy use it.

At least he’d have a clue.

I’ve used M4s, SCARs and a Glock.

That’s it


30 posted on 02/26/2019 7:55:56 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: CurlyDave

https://www.bing.com/search?q=uscs+second+amendment&form=EDGTCT&qs=SC&cvid=5583cdeb3df240ad9f0a3fc19cd36989&refig=f1cee42c80284b66c6bc9d5a0327b6ef&cc=US&setlang=en-US


31 posted on 02/26/2019 7:56:42 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: OKSooner

Agree 100 percent.

There is now a CHANCE, that you as a soldier, will die.

That has to make you think twice.

Also we have Afghanistan and Chechnya and a whole bunch of civilians that did a brutally good job of fighting back.


32 posted on 02/26/2019 7:57:43 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: OKSooner

Also thee Kurds, who I dont know HOW they survived until Trump got in office.


33 posted on 02/26/2019 7:58:08 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622
It does seem simple enough but i just know I’d kill 20 of us by accident :(

If you did you would get one hell of a call-sign out of the incident!

34 posted on 02/26/2019 8:02:19 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: meadsjn
"These people are stupid, but not nearly as stupid as the people who keep mistaking liberals/socialists/communists/etc. for humans. They are not human. They are mass-murdering monsters."

In 1967, Polish mercenary Rafal Ganowicz was asked what it felt like to take a human life. He replied: "I don't know, I've only ever killed communists."

35 posted on 02/26/2019 8:02:19 AM PST by 10mm
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To: CurlyDave

Someone has to initiate a legal proceeding to get the issue to SCOTUS.

To the best of my knowledge, no one has initiated said proceeding.


36 posted on 02/26/2019 8:02:23 AM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: rktman
Where are these two jackasses? Not a peep...


37 posted on 02/26/2019 8:03:53 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: 10mm

38 posted on 02/26/2019 8:04:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bigbob
It’s no coincidence that not long after giving up their guns, Venezuelans found themselves giving up food, too.

That's just night following day with Communists. Once they get your guns, they WILL take your food.

39 posted on 02/26/2019 8:04:30 AM PST by papertyger (Now we know why Star Chambers were a thing.)
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To: CurlyDave

Silence of the Court is due to few legal cases being filed...

The NRA is a borderline fake 2nd Amendment organization. They talk alot, do very little with legal action. If the NRA sued 1/100 the times the ACLU has the Supreme court would be busier in regards to the 2nd Amendment.


40 posted on 02/26/2019 8:04:40 AM PST by Article10 (Roger That)
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