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I apologize for entering a three-paragraph, carefully researched discussion into your thread of not-so-clever one-liners. I'd hate to make anybody think before tapping out a few keystrokes.
The crime has been bad for a long time in Venezuela, but lately it's off the charts: kidnappings for ransom, robberies, rapes, you name it. Maduro has to be seen as doing something, and writing ridiculous laws is what lawmakers do, after all. It doesn't mean he has some grand plan for confiscation followed by ethnic cleansing.
The one constant in his government has always been utter ineptitude, and I have no reason to believe he could pull off confiscation any better. It'll just be another way his cronies grease their palms, granting licenses and exceptions the same way they do for folks smuggling toilet paper.
Gun ownership may be a necessary condition for a polite society but in no way is it a sufficient condition. Look at the most dangerous city in the world, San Pedro de Sula: gun culture is prevalent, open and concealed carry are common, and it hasn't made Honduras a better place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Honduras
Then again, who knows how bad it would have been in Honduras if legal ownership had been banned.
I apologize for entering a three-paragraph, carefully researched discussion into your thread of not-so-clever one-liners. I'd hate to make anybody think before tapping out a few keystrokes.
Gun ownership may be a necessary condition for a polite society but in no way is it a sufficient condition. Look at the most dangerous city in the world, San Pedro de Sula: gun culture is prevalent, open and concealed carry are common, and it hasn't made Honduras a better place.