Maduro, president of Venezuela, several years ago launched a campaign to completely confiscate all guns from civilians. Now the story coming out is he wants to arm half a million vigilantes. If he does that, thousands of his opponents will be slaughtered and he will remain in power. The socialist leader of Venezuela announced in a speech to regime loyalists his plan to arm hundreds of thousands of supporters after a years-long campaign to confiscate civilian-owned guns. “A gun for every militiaman!” Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said outside the presidential palace. https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/venezuela-confiscates-guns-arms-socialist-regime/ For anyone who says it isn't about power and control... 2012: Venezuela bans private gun ownership Now: Venezuela's Maduro to provide guns to 400,000 loyalists amid peaking tension Another commentary article: One effect of gun prohibition has been the increase of lethal violence against law enforcement. Venezuelan law enforcement are targeted specifically for their firearms with 252 officers being killed in 2015. Pivotal to the suppression of protesters (and thus to the perpetuation of the Maduro dictatorship) are colectivos (or “collectives”): pro-government citizen gangs that carry out the regime’s rule by violence. Trained by state security officials, the colectivos paramilitaries are government proxies. They prevent the publication of unfavorable news, decide union disputes, and stifle political protests. The colectivos have impunity to injure and murder protesters. Providing the Maduro regime with a façade of deniability, the colectivos perpetrate the killings for which the Maduro regime wants to avoid public recrimination. Heavily armed, colectivos have even utilized machine guns against protesters. How could such weaponry fall into the hands of private citizens, given the nation’s stringent firearms prohibition? In 2017, the dictatorship announced that it was providing weapons to approximately 400,000 “militiamen”. In other words, the Maduro regime stripped Venezuelans of their right to self-defense and then transferred the confiscated firearms to its loyal thugs. http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign...a-gun-ban-venezuela-sees-rising-homicide-rate
Oh, it gets better... From the Wall Street Journal: Venezuela’s Maduro, Clinging to Power, Uses Hunger as an Election Weapon But the regime has a weapon ahead of scheduled May 20 national elections: a handout of rice, pasta and canned goods that is now the main source of sustenance for 15 percent of the population, according to Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas. The food package is distributed to those who carry a new ruling party card, called the Fatherland Card, which also is used to register their vote. Using these cards, the government tracks who votes for the ruling Socialist Party and rewards them with food boxes. The Maduro regime, responsible for creating this humanitarian crisis, is expected to use these food handouts and measles vaccine to purchase support in the upcoming presidential elections. Katerina Noriega, a street vendor in Santa Rita, told the Wall Street Journal that she was offered about a kilogram of rice and beans, or about 10 days’ worth of wages, for voting in the December 2017 municipal elections in Venezuela. https://share.america.gov/in-venezuela-maduro-regime-uses-hunger-to-get-votes/
Gun "control" is an intermediate step to gun bans and disarming the population. A disarmed population is required for the tyrants to take over and enslave the population. It has nothing to do with "public safety", if the gun banners were honestly interested in public safety they would love the 2nd Amendment and an armed population.
Truth be told, and sadly once their work is done, they will be the first to disappear by the hands of the government they empowered, tyrannical governments share power with no one, least of all ones they no longer need.
How did this work out for him? Is Venuezela worse off now then it was when this thread was started? I wonder what if anything Biden is doing to help the poor innocent people there?
Venezuela is a leftists paradise, suffering all of the conditions their policies ultimately bring to a society. Thus, it is only natural the state seeks a monopoly on force - why do you think the left here is so hot for gun control?
Biden could give a rats fanny about poor people, all he cares about is his leftest ultra wealthy associates.
Ah yes. Cementing power in an authoritarian regime. Not really surprising there. Probably doesn’t trust the military enough.
By outsourcing the dirty work to private groups which are not officially part of the government, it makes it much less challenging to get them to do things that are not following the law. It creates more deniability, because government is not actually the one directly carrying it out.
The US has been good at doing that for decades. The guy that originally certified me as a firearms instructor worked as a contractor for the US training the Contras for a number of years after retiring from the Army.
Yup. You are absolutely correct. Though I would emphasize the security side more in contrast with the military. Not s good situation either way.
