Venezuelans regret their gun ban

We are headed down a very similar path right here if we aren't careful. Most Americans feel no need to defend or protect themselves from anyone or anything and it will eventually lead to a similar outcome.
 
I would like to believe that if such a doctrine were passed into law in the US the streets would run red with blood and a repressive government would be stopped dead in it's tracks. Alas I dream.....
In reality, I'm afraid the majority of gun owners wouldn't fight to the death to keep them thinking that the Gov't would "protect" them from violence they see, not the violence lurking beneath the mask of Gov't.
I'm too old, tired and set in my ways to change, so mark me down with the red street folks and I'm not afraid to go it by myself if need be.... I have little to lose... Liberty, death, ya'll know the rest....
 
Violence, poverty, starvation, corrupt .gov controlling everything for the benefit of the elites? Sounds like the liberal dream, why would anyone want to fight back against that? This must be fake news.

The important part for us is this quote:

That year, there were only 37 recorded voluntary gun surrenders, while the majority of seizures - more than 12,500 – were by force.

So somehow they managed to forcibly take that many guns away.... and did. So doing the same here should be even easier?
 
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“Venezuelans didn’t care enough about it. The idea of having the means to protect your home was seen as only needed out in the fields. People never would have believed they needed to defend themselves against the government,”

He said it didn’t take long for such a wide-eyed public perception to fall apart. “If guns had been a stronger part of our culture, if there had been a sense of duty for one to protect their individual rights, and as a show of force against a government power – and had legal carry been a common thing – it would have made a huge difference,” he lamented.


Seems to me that the following would be "Fundamentally Logical " for the "Dark Side."
“The Venezuelan rulers – like their Cuban masters – apparently viewed citizen possession of arms as a potential danger to a permanent communist monopoly of power.”

Vanegas explained. “Venezuelans evolved to always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.”

“Now the criminal mother is unleashed,” Farias said. “Trying to ban guns didn’t take guns off the streets. Nobody cares about the law; the criminals don’t care about the law.”

A black market in weapons is also thriving. There are an estimated six million unregistered firearms circulating in Venezuela, but they remain far from reach for the average, non-criminal Venezuelan.

“But there is too much anarchy on the streets now. Making guns easier for anybody to buy now would start a civil war.”
 
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I would like to believe that if such a doctrine were passed into law in the US the streets would run red with blood and a repressive government would be stopped dead in it's tracks. Alas I dream.....
In reality, I'm afraid the majority of gun owners wouldn't fight to the death to keep them thinking that the Gov't would "protect" them from violence they see, not the violence lurking beneath the mask of Gov't.
I'm too old, tired and set in my ways to change, so mark me down with the red street folks and I'm not afraid to go it by myself if need be.... I have little to lose... Liberty, death, ya'll know the rest....
What He Said^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!!!
 
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.

This is why you resist; why you register nothing and relinquish not a damned thing...why you peaceably and with civility, disobey and refuse to comply with unjust edicts...why you purpose in your heart that you are a free citizen; not because you've been "granted" it or some bureaucrat "allowed" it, but because YOU choose to be.
 
We are headed down a very similar path right here if we aren't careful. Most Americans feel no need to defend or protect themselves from anyone or anything and it will eventually lead to a similar outcome.
Liberals that hate guns and think nobody should have them don't even realize that they are free because of all the guns that do exist.
Then the are the elected leftists who do understand that all those guns are a the biggest blockade to their agenda. These leftists then use emotional appeals to the gullible while hiding their true agenda.

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Liberals that hate guns and think nobody should have them don't even realize that they are free because of all the guns that do exist.
Then the are the elected leftists who do understand that all those guns are a the biggest blockade to their agenda. These leftists then use emotional appeals to the gullible while hiding their true agenda.
The subtle truth to their methods is that motivation is an emotional response. We like to think we act based on logic. But, we don't. They know this. And that's why they are hammering on the emotion view right now.
 
They probably regret socialism now also, somethings can't be put back in the box, hindsight vision and all...
 
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Surprisingly, ABC nightly news did a story about the collapse of Venezuela last night. But it was a man-on-the-street approach where they find some desolate citizen and ask them just how much does your life suck in their never-ending quest for misery and tears.
They talked about how not so long ago Venezuela had everything, and now it's approaching destruction. 10 million percent inflation or some such. However, not once did they ever refer to socialism in any way. No pointing out the current structure of government, not even mentioning a particular socialist program that would be causing problems to the hopeless citizen they're talking to. All they allowed to reach the air was desperate folks crying about having no money or food so they're going to Columbia. Never once did they say or ask why that is.

It became apparent that it was just another poor helpless immigrant piece. But I'm not sure how well that played for them. These migrants look nothing like the caravan migrants. The caravan migrants look like a bunch of beat to death farmers and everybody knows their story. But these Venezuelan migrants look like your neighbors, and that makes you wonder why a teacher has to walk to Columbia to get some food.
 
But these Venezuelan migrants look like your neighbors, and that makes you wonder why a teacher has to walk to Columbia to get some food.
Or why some Venezuelan female doctors have to sell their bodies in Columbia, as do countless numbers of teenage girls and young women.

Yet we have to listen to neo-marxists blathering on about how conservatives are waging a war on women.
 
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