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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Yeah I’ll be behind you guys preparing dinner for everyone for after the battle!!
“Where is Fast and Furious when people south of our border could really use some guns?”
Obama probably gave arms to Chavez and Maduro.
“...The law, which was generally supported by the public at the time, ,..”
Must have been a lot of Venezuelan style democrats.
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.
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?
They are exceptionally simple to use. They even have printed instructions on the side.
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...
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.
Hmm. Interesting.
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
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.
Also thee Kurds, who I dont know HOW they survived until Trump got in office.
If you did you would get one hell of a call-sign out of the incident!
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."
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.
That's just night following day with Communists. Once they get your guns, they WILL take your food.
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.
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