Fox News – Venezuelans regret gun ban, 'a declaration of war against an unarmed population'

[bbbass]

"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," 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."

Those that didn't they called paranoid and backwards...

 

[Cigarlvr313]

Clinging to their guns and religion............? Sounds sort of familiar

 

[Jonnyuma]

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator

 

[Camelfilter]

It will be a day of irony if Russia becomes the capitalist world power while the U.S turns into Soviet America.

Also a nightmare turned reality...

China, with Russia as its little buddy...until they have there "big" falling out.

By that time the America's will (unfortunately) be both of there colonies. South A to Russia, N A Chinese...

 

[darkminstrel]

That's quite a few more Mosins than I was expecting to see.

 

[MannyGlocks]

Looks like 2 female fingers and 1 beta male.

 

[Ura-Ki]

And...............
Now we have the Russian Federation moving in on the Vens to "help protect" from those nasty capatalest pigs in America with their fancy fighter planes and rock and roll music!
Make no mistake, Putin is only intrested in the massive oil reserves ( same as the Crimea) and he is going to rattle his little saber some to keep us from doing things down there that we probably should stay out of! The Drums of War are sounding, we need to tread carefully! Ether we slap Putie down HARD now, or were gonna have to deal with him later when he is much stronger. Time is short, and IF we are going to face off with Russia, NOW is the time to do it! Of course China is the wild card in all this, and don't forget the little second rate dictator who wants to play at being a big time power, he has the ability to cause serious problems and would be a convenient scapegoat to play!

 

[nwslopoke]

China, with Russia as its little buddy...until they have there "big" falling out.

By that time the America's will (unfortunately) be both of there colonies. South A to Russia, N A Chinese...

I see where you are going. I remember when we used to laugh at Russia as kids. Shh, point at the cealing and say, someone is listening. But it's now the TV, hand held electronic devices and Red Flag do gooders. A strange turn of events within my lifetime.

 

[nwslopoke]

So many Americans particularly on the west coast fail to look outside of their own windows. Home or car. Uh, underpasses, walking paths, fields, ect all full with the leftists *** dream. Homeless and addicts.

I went to look at some property near Longview well off a gravel road. A local asked if I was lost. I told him I was looking for a lot and he pointed out a homeless encampment through some trees.

Salem & Olympia are happy with this. Somewhat well behaved Americans living in slop off the beaten path. What happens when they stop being somewhat well behaved? We have the examples from the rest of the world but Americans think we are exempt.

 

[nammac]

I had a rather long and piffy post written, but the message boils down to this - pay close attention, bad things are going to happen, and me thinks sooner rather than later...

Keep 'em locked and loaded, keep yer head on a swivel and make sure you have prepared sufficiently for the family...

 

[bbbass]

What happens when they stop being somewhat well behaved?

Remember the Occupy folks? ... It will look like that. Those folks never get hassled, so it's all good.

 

[308]

The snowflakes will respond that this will never happen in our country "because we are a democracy" and is an irrelevant article and is not applicable to the US of A.

CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters has an interesting take on democracy (for those interested)

Screwtape on Democracy - Out of Ambit

 

[Herb g]

The Tri-State "New Venezuela". It would be helpful for all the gun owning traitors who keep sending their comrades to Olympia, Salem, and Sacramento every election to self identify ( an indelible "D" on finger/hand would do), so we can get it right on the day of the rope.

 

[Ura-Ki]

The Tri-State "New Venezuela". It would be helpful for all the gun owning traitors who keep sending their comrades to Olympia, Salem, and Sacramento every election to self identify ( an indelible "D" on finger/hand would do), so we can get it right on the day of the rope.

I got a great big letter "P" tattooed on the middle finger, Does that help? Lol

 

[Jonnyuma]

I remember when we used to laugh at Russia as kids. Shh, point at the cealing and say, someone is listening.

As a 70s kid I still have occasion to joke (when filling out forms in triplicate) "One for you, one for me, and one to destroy so the Russians don't get it..."
Older folks laugh. Milennials don't get it. I say, "Cold War humor" and leave.

 

[ma96782]

"Venezuela shows the deadly peril when citizens are deprived of the means of resisting the depredations of a criminal government," said David Kopel, a policy analyst, and research director at the Independence Institute and adjunct professor of Advanced Constitutional Law at Denver University. "The Venezuelan rulers – like their Cuban masters – apparently viewed citizen possession of arms as a potential danger to a permanent communist monopoly of power."

Although the bill was sold to the population as a hardline effort to improve security, and sharply reduce crime, many now point to Venezuela as a case study for how gun prohibition can actually produce the opposite effect.

Just like how the Socialist in America wants's things to end up. Rrrrright......only the Govt and the Govt approved......owning/having the guns.

Aloha, Mark

 

[Jonnyuma]

Something that gets left out of most discussions about the mess Venezuela has become is that they voted for this.

While Sanders, Cortez, et al claim that what they're hawking is different than the Venezuela model because they're proposing "democratic" socialism, I maintain that it is the EXACT same thing with the EXACT same end-game.

Socialism: Ideas so good they have to be enforced.

 

[Camelfilter]

Something that gets left out of most discussions about the mess Venezuela has become is that they voted for this....

Kinda sorta.

There was a heck of a lot of "legal" tyrannical trickery & powergrabbery as well. Far above and beyond what & whom was actually voted on.

The kind of trickery and power grabbery which would be akin to Voting for Trump & MAGA, but then Trump turns into a dictator rewriting the constitution giving himself even more power instead (..and of course if Trump were claiming to be Socialist...).

 

[nammac]

Kinda sorta.

There was a heck of a lot of "legal" tyrannical trickery & powergrabbery as well. Far above and beyond what & whom was actually voted on.

The kind of trickery and power grabbery which would be akin to Voting for Trump & MAGA, but then Trump turns into a dictator rewriting the constitution giving himself even more power instead (..and of course if Trump were claiming to be Socialist...).

So it would have been more like Hiltery being elected president... Got it...

 

[Camelfilter]

So it would have been more like Hiltery being elected president... Got it...

Exactamundo!