After Brazil elected a new president partially on his promise to restore gun rights to a people oppressed by criminals, Venezuela may do so once it gets rid of the oppression of its dictator. This article was written in December, before the current chaos, but it captures the popular sentiment that the ban was a mistake.
Eli Lake writes, today, about the right of the people to overthrow a dictatorship and restore lawful government.
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"It seems you can vote your way into socialism, but it also seems you always need to shoot your way out."
Dunno who first said that quote, but it's a doozy.
I heard it first at "Virtual Mirage" -Larry Lambert.
Whoever, it is a drop forged truth.
[W]hen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The principle applies whether the people are trying to restore legitimate government or set one up de nihilo.
Eric Hines
The results of "gun ban" in Venezuela are that that of the 1-6 million firearms in Venezuela, only a trivial amount of firearms has been confiscated or turned in. As legal sales of ammunition have also been banned, this means that only "connected" people, a.k.a. Chavistas, can readily obtain ammunition- or purchase new firearms. As Chavistas most likely also control the black market in firearms and munition, the opposition is effectively cut out of the black market.
If the people want guns, there are plenty of hands to take them from, one or two at a time. Take them from ambush. They are operating in their own territory, all of them are known, where they live, etc.
Weapon bans are not mistakes. They are necessary precursors to the New World Order.
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