Last year in Venezuela, the government banned private gun ownership — and over 21,000 people were murdered. But acting President Nicolás Maduro doesn’t think self-defense should be a priority for citizens. At a rally yesterday, he called on Venezuelans to surrender their weapons, insisting that only police and the military should possess firearms.
No doubt this will end well:
https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/311508043932250112
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Though we clearly haven’t reached this point ourselves, thankfully, Maduro’s words should have a familiar ring.
As blogger Jorge Bonilla notes:
https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/311475152426782721
Maduro’s unvarnished call for disarmament mirrors our own progressive gun-grabbers right here in the good ‘ole U.S. of A, and should deliver a shocking wake-up call to anyone with even the slightest vested interest in defending their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Maduro doesn’t even bother with hunting and self-defense non-sequiturs, or try to make goofy recommendations á la Shotgun Joe; he goes right to “give me the guns” mode.
Government gun grabbers put the public in more danger, not less.
Hugo Chavez lives on!! Venezuelans asked to 'voluntarily disarm' http://t.co/3Nefmxh10a #tcot #latism #teaparty #chavez
— Javier Manjarres (@JavManjarres) March 12, 2013
A populace unable to defend itself from government tyranny … somewhere, Hugo Chavez is smiling.
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