From the Business Insider:
In recent remarks to the Latin American Herald Tribune, Venezuelan Interior and Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami announced that the government will begin suspending firearm importation, effective this month. Furthermore, local gunsmiths will no longer be able to market or sell firearms and ammunition.According to El Aissami, “As of March, every last gun shop remaining in Venezuela – and there are less than 80 – should be closed. That is to say, in Venezuela, the perverse chapter of the commercialization of firearms and munitions is over.”
That should work well! After all, it's worked so well in other places...Uganda, Nazi Germany...you know the drill. I hope the peasants have lots and lots of machetes...
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Remember what the cop said at the end of V for Vendetta: What always happens when unarmed people go up against armed people.
Those who don't remember their history - or blatantly ignore it for their own gain - . . . .
The upper-end people in Venezuela with any sense are already pretty well armed. One guy was telling me about the Glock 18 he bought and carries with about as much fuss as a G17 here. IPSC is pretty popular with those people too, so the Chav's might be in for a bit of a surprise if they push too hard
Sounds like the excrement is about to hit the rotating oscillator in Chavez land.. god be with the freedom fighters...
Chavez has firm control of Venezuela with the power of the military. He learned all the lessons of the Cuban revolution and refined them. A dictator that will stay in power until the big C takes him. Sad. Folks have to get real. Whether some folks have or don't have pistols makes no difference to his continued reign. All the Red Dawn nonsense doesn't displace dictators with tanks and gunships.
NJ Larry is right again.
When a corrupt government controls the army, they control the citizenry. When guns and ammo' are illegal, the government has the best tool to eliminate you, at their disposal. If you are "armed" with an "illegal" gun, the use of deadly force to subdue you will be justified. And don't kid yourself, there will be no shortage of soldiers that will be willing to draw their guns on fellow citizens either, to enforce the dictators demands. My family lived that during the Bolshevic Revolution in Russia. Those that fled early (four!) survived and those that stayed (ALL others in both families) perished to the guns, or nooses of the "revolutionaries".
Venezuela is a preview of coming attractions here, unless we restore our republic and re-instate our constitution. The allure of the UN "treaties" that aim to disarm private citizens are the start if they are signed by our govenment. Anyone who doubts this has their central processor stuck in their waste discharge tube.
Gerard Vanderleun said it best of Communism: "There are lies that lodge so deep in the hopes of man that they can never be killed, no matter how many are executed to make the lie true."
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What is a person with a Middle Eastern name doing as the Venezuelan Interior and Justice Minister. I guess it goes t show that Venezula has been infiltrated or these are the ones that Chavez trusts, ro he's been instructed to appoint these people t cabinet positions. We in Amerika could be next with all the ingrate demagogues in poiltics, with the lame stream media preaching their lies and disinformation.
P.T.S.F. Semper Paratas, Acta Non Verba.
Murder rate in Venezuela is around 60 per 100K (US is 4.9 per 100K) and in Caracas, the capital city, murder passes 103 per 100K.
People are literally too scared to think about anything else but saving their lives plus there is no effective police force since Chavez went out of his way to destroy it in the name of political assimilation. Roughly 90% of homicides will go unsolved.
Self Defense is practically a crime under current laws. The deck is stacked against the law abiding who is not politically aligned with the government.
Interesting to note that Venezuela recently opened an AK factory with the implied purpose of widespread proliferation...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1030177/posts
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Born in Venezuela of Syrian parents, El Aissami is the son of the president of the Venezuelan branch of Hussein's once-ruling Baath Party, and nephew of Shibli Al Aissami, a top-ranking Baath Party official in Baghdad whose whereabouts are unknown.
Tareck El Aissami's father, Carlos, defended him in an interview with The Herald as an outstanding student and said he was not a member of the Baath Party.
In an article the father wrote after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and showed to The Herald, he called President Bush ''genocidal, mentally deranged, a liar and a racist,'' and al Qaeda's leader ``the great Mujahedeen, Sheik Osama bin Laden.''
During Tareck El Aissami's tenure as president of the university's student body, his supporters are alleged to have consolidated their control of the Domingo Salazar student dormitories and turned them into a haven for armed political and criminal groups.
A report by the vice-rectorate of academic affairs, states that of 1,122 people living in the eight residences, only 387 are active students and more than 600 have no university connections.
''There's always weapons there,'' said Alcala, the student affairs director. ``This is something you see in the movies.''
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