Lesson in Why We Should Never Let Our Firearms to Be Taken
Mar 2, 2019 6:16:49 GMT -5
Post by avordvet on Mar 2, 2019 6:16:49 GMT -5
Venezuela: A Lesson in Why We Should Never Permit Our Firearms to Be Taken
The people of Venezuela have little more than rocks with which to defend themselves.
By: Leesa K. Donner, February 26, 2019
As all hell breaks loose in the socialist paradise of Venezuela, every day brings new hope that the malevolent reign of Nicolás Maduro will be brought to its knees and put in the trash heap of history. It does seem as though Maduro’s s***hole is finally about to implode. But as Americans well know, the struggle for freedom often comes with much bloodshed.
In a last desperate effort to starve his people, Maduro resorted to violence to prevent humanitarian aid from reaching the Venezuelan people this weekend. In just a few short decades, Maduro and his mentor Hugo Chávez have successfully taken a wealthy, prosperous nation and reduced it to nothing more than an apparition of its former self.
Socialism: Now Everyone Has Nothing
Originally nicknamed Little Venice by explorer Amerigo Vespucci, Venezuela sits on one of the world’s largest oil reserves. It was also well known for exporting coffee and cocoa. Back in the late 1980s, when my family first moved to the Washington, D.C., area, it seemed like we were always meeting a new and extremely wealthy couple from – you guessed it – Venezuela. Perhaps that was because they saw the socialist train rolling down the tracks at high speed and got the hell out of Dodge while the getting was good.
Indeed, the lofty dreams of socialism meant indescribable inflation and a populist social welfare system that brought the country down to an almost unimaginable economic poverty level. But in June 2012, the socialists of Venezuela made their shrewdest move of all: They banned private gun ownership.
At the time the BBC reported that the Venezuelan gun ban was “an attempt by the government to improve security and cut crime ahead of the elections.” This was before the election of 2012. So, the government ran a classic gun amnesty program, and people obliged. Undeniably, there was much moaning about the atrocious homicide rate in the capital city of Caracas.
What was the upshot of this effort to rid Venezuela of such crime by taking away all the guns?
www.libertynation.com/venezuela-a-lesson-in-why-we-should-never-permit-our-firearms-to-be-taken/
The people of Venezuela have little more than rocks with which to defend themselves.
By: Leesa K. Donner, February 26, 2019
As all hell breaks loose in the socialist paradise of Venezuela, every day brings new hope that the malevolent reign of Nicolás Maduro will be brought to its knees and put in the trash heap of history. It does seem as though Maduro’s s***hole is finally about to implode. But as Americans well know, the struggle for freedom often comes with much bloodshed.
In a last desperate effort to starve his people, Maduro resorted to violence to prevent humanitarian aid from reaching the Venezuelan people this weekend. In just a few short decades, Maduro and his mentor Hugo Chávez have successfully taken a wealthy, prosperous nation and reduced it to nothing more than an apparition of its former self.
Socialism: Now Everyone Has Nothing
Originally nicknamed Little Venice by explorer Amerigo Vespucci, Venezuela sits on one of the world’s largest oil reserves. It was also well known for exporting coffee and cocoa. Back in the late 1980s, when my family first moved to the Washington, D.C., area, it seemed like we were always meeting a new and extremely wealthy couple from – you guessed it – Venezuela. Perhaps that was because they saw the socialist train rolling down the tracks at high speed and got the hell out of Dodge while the getting was good.
Indeed, the lofty dreams of socialism meant indescribable inflation and a populist social welfare system that brought the country down to an almost unimaginable economic poverty level. But in June 2012, the socialists of Venezuela made their shrewdest move of all: They banned private gun ownership.
At the time the BBC reported that the Venezuelan gun ban was “an attempt by the government to improve security and cut crime ahead of the elections.” This was before the election of 2012. So, the government ran a classic gun amnesty program, and people obliged. Undeniably, there was much moaning about the atrocious homicide rate in the capital city of Caracas.
What was the upshot of this effort to rid Venezuela of such crime by taking away all the guns?
www.libertynation.com/venezuela-a-lesson-in-why-we-should-never-permit-our-firearms-to-be-taken/