Article from Fox News by Hollie McKay.
CUCUTA, Venezuela/Colombia border – As Venezuela continues to crumble under the socialist dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro, some are expressing words of warning – and resentment – against a six-year-old gun control bill that stripped citizens of their weapons.
“Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” Javier Vanegas, 28, a Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, told 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.”
Under the direction of then-President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan National Assembly in 2012 enacted the “Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law,” with the explicit aim to “disarm all citizens.” The law took effect in 2013, with only minimal pushback from some pro-democracy opposition figures, banned the legal commercial sale of guns and munitions to all – except government entities.
Chavez initially ran a months-long amnesty program encouraging Venezuelans to trade their arms for electrical goods. That year, there were only 37 recorded voluntary gun surrenders, while the majority of seizures – more than 12,500 – were by force.
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One of the most curious aspects of the effort to confiscate our firearms is the response by victims of Trump Derangement Syndrome. One would think that, given their delusions, they would want to keep their weapons now. For the record, I do not think that they or anyone else should be deprived of their God-given right to defend themselves until they are convicted of crimes or legally adjudicated to be insane.
When you live under a Government that wants to starve you to death and if the people are still armed then the government will fear the people and they will feed them. But because they are all UN-armed the Government is deliberately starving them and torturing them. That can happen here in The United States if we give up our 2nd Amendment rights. That is why if they come for our guns we shoot first and then ask Questions latter.
This is what Castro did in Castro in Cuba confiscated all private guns from the people. I’m sure Castro instructed Chavez to do this! For total control with the military.
Hitler did this also, so he could murder, the Jews! He had total control and they just stood there and he committed cold blooded murder, they couldn’t even run! Stripped them naked so to humiliate them. Isn’t this what the liberals want!? Complete control!
This demonstrates why the democrats want to ban guns.
Why don’t you post my comme
Bloomberg and Soros are planting governors and mayors to strip the right to bear arms from states. Watch your candidates. Gun ownership is good for our nation’s freedom