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Posted: 12/15/2018 12:52:23 PM EDT

As Venezuela continues to crumble under the socialist dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro, some are expressing words of warning and resentment against a six-year-old gun control bill that stripped citizens of their weapons.
"Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight," Javier Vanegas, 28, a Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News. "The government security forces, at the beginning of this debacle, knew they had no real opposition to their force. Once things were this bad, it was a clear declaration of war against an unarmed population."
Under the direction of then-President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan National Assembly in 2012 enacted the "Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law," with the explicit aim to "disarm all citizens." The law took effect in 2013, with only minimal pushback from some pro-democracy opposition figures, banned the legal commercial sale of guns and munitions to all - except government entities.
Chavez initially ran a months-long amnesty program encouraging Venezuelans to trade their arms for electrical goods. That year, there were only 37 recorded voluntary gun surrenders, while the majority of seizures - more than 12,500 were by force.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelans-regret-gun-prohibition-we-could-have-defended-ourselves

Posted: 12/15/2018 12:54:38 PM EDT

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https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/Venezuela-sorry-guns-are-gone/5-2175003/

Posted: 12/15/2018 12:54:44 PM EDT

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Those happy socialist/communists peasants/proletariats should STFU and enjoy the blessings of Marxist/Leninist doctrine and prove to the world the viability of that doctrine - or die trying. See if IGAF.

Posted: 12/15/2018 1:00:23 PM EDT

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and the government can use armed criminal thugs against it's own citizens by making agreements with gang bosses...

this is one more reason why the generational communists want open borders so badly

Posted: 12/15/2018 1:01:30 PM EDT

[#4]

The Socialista (A.K.A. "Democratic Party") Plan all along...

When they are powerless to resist you, they are powerless to resist your policies...

Posted: 12/15/2018 1:07:37 PM EDT

[#5]

Kill more enemy, get more weapons.

Posted: 12/15/2018 1:08:22 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/15/2018 1:10:25 PM EDT

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Risky, and scary. But time honored and effective.

Posted: 12/15/2018 1:10:44 PM EDT

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Surprise, surprise, surprise. LOL. Elections are based on the idea that common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. The common people of Venezuela are getting what they voted for, good and hard. I hope they enjoy it. I wish we could get a wall built before they all form one gigantic caravan and come here.

Posted: 12/15/2018 1:20:53 PM EDT

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Socialist are brutal mother fuckers.

God? No God we are your God now!

Posted: 12/15/2018 1:56:43 PM EDT

[#10]

whodathunk?

Posted: 12/15/2018 1:59:54 PM EDT

[#11]

Regrets, I have a few.

Giving up guns isn't going to be one of them.

And nobody learns from history.

Posted: 12/15/2018 2:01:37 PM EDT

[#12]

So? Either fire up the choppers or continue to enjoy your socialist paradise.

Posted: 12/15/2018 2:03:05 PM EDT

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Posted: 12/15/2018 3:33:56 PM EDT

[#14]

Time for an anonymous airdrop??

Posted: 12/15/2018 3:40:26 PM EDT

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I'd sure regret it, I'd I did it.

Posted: 12/15/2018 3:40:51 PM EDT

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Surely we can do better than WWII liberators.

I propose

Posted: 12/15/2018 3:55:40 PM EDT

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Jus' Sayin'

Posted: 12/15/2018 3:58:43 PM EDT

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I propose https://cdn7.bigcommerce.com/s-1kqh9qmybo/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/33049/32488/MKS_00916__94948.1504801233.jpg?c=2&imbypass=on

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That's good enough to earn a person an AK

Posted: 12/15/2018 4:06:39 PM EDT

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This is what ambushes were made for...

Posted: 12/15/2018 4:07:05 PM EDT

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Surely we can do better than WWII liberators.

I propose https://cdn7.bigcommerce.com/s-1kqh9qmybo/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/33049/32488/MKS_00916__94948.1504801233.jpg?c=2&imbypass=on

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Knowing this county's govt, they would probably drop some foreign made guns. U know kickbacks and all.

Posted: 12/15/2018 4:08:55 PM EDT

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Surely we can do better than WWII liberators.

I propose https://cdn7.bigcommerce.com/s-1kqh9qmybo/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/33049/32488/MKS_00916__94948.1504801233.jpg?c=2&imbypass=on

That's good enough to earn a person an AK

An air drop of Hi Points would be like raining "Rods from God."

Posted: 12/15/2018 4:12:44 PM EDT

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Without a population willing to use them they are just as useless as the AR 15s hidden in attics in ban states.

Posted: 12/15/2018 4:18:34 PM EDT

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I watched a documentary on Venezuela the other day on Youtube.

They interviewed a number of people and judging by their thoughts,
they blame Maduro for everything going bad.
To them, things were good in the beginning with Chavez and when the
country still had money.

However, they do not see the connection that problems they are facing
are because of the communism.

You cannot help people that are that stupid.

Posted: 12/15/2018 4:19:17 PM EDT

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And nobody learns from history.

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Some learn. Like you, I will never have the regret of giving up my firearms.

Posted: 12/15/2018 4:37:39 PM EDT

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You need men to drop them to first.

Posted: 12/15/2018 4:44:45 PM EDT

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I watched a documentary on Venezuela the other day on Youtube.

They interviewed a number of people and judging by their thoughts,
they blame Maduro for everything going bad.
To them, things were good in the beginning with Chavez and when the
country still had money.

However, they do not see the connection that problems they are facing
are because of the communism.

You cannot help people that are that stupid.

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They ran out of other people's money. They blame the "other people" whose money they ran out of, not their system of dependence on it.

Posted: 12/15/2018 5:03:13 PM EDT

[#27]

There's a certain amount of satisfaction in seeing people suffering under the heel of the very government/economy they voted for.

Posted: 12/15/2018 5:34:17 PM EDT

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They ran out of other people's money. They blame the "other people" whose money they ran out of, not their system of dependence on it.

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I watched a documentary on Venezuela the other day on Youtube.

They interviewed a number of people and judging by their thoughts,
they blame Maduro for everything going bad.
To them, things were good in the beginning with Chavez and when the
country still had money.

However, they do not see the connection that problems they are facing
are because of the communism.

You cannot help people that are that stupid.

They ran out of other people's money. They blame the "other people" whose money they ran out of, not their system of dependence on it.

They didn't run out of other people's money. They migrate and demand money there too.

Posted: 12/15/2018 5:54:46 PM EDT

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Holy sheeetz.

I never thought of a Hi Point as a Rod from God.

Kudos to you.

Posted: 12/15/2018 5:56:44 PM EDT

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Some learn. Like you, I will never have the regret of giving up my firearms.

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From my cold dead hands!

Posted: 12/15/2018 5:59:10 PM EDT

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Why bother? They weren't occupied by a foreign power; they got exactly the government they wanted. Zero fucks given.

Posted: 12/15/2018 6:09:16 PM EDT

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We have over 60 million like that in the USA.

They are called liberals.

Posted: 12/15/2018 6:17:57 PM EDT

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Those happy socialist/communists peasants/proletariats should STFU and enjoy the blessings of Marxist/Leninist doctrine and prove to the world the viability of that doctrine - or die trying. See if IGAF.

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This. Fuck every single one of them that either voted for Chavez/Maduro and communism or let it happen. No sympathy and no immigration for these losers.

Posted: 12/15/2018 6:22:42 PM EDT

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I get a sinking feeling that Washington state will begin confiscation.

I'm all for States rights but why is the federal government allowing the states to ignore the constitution?
Anyway, bring it MFers

Posted: 12/16/2018 5:38:29 AM EDT

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This. Fuck every single one of them that either voted for Chavez/Maduro and communism or let it happen. No sympathy and no immigration for these losers.

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Voting doesn't matter when ~~Brenda Snipes'~~ er I mean ~~Hugo Chavez's~~ umm Nicolas Maduro's minions are the ones who COUNT the votes.

Posted: 12/16/2018 8:49:10 PM EDT

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Voting doesn't matter when ~~Brenda Snipes'~~ er I mean ~~Hugo Chavez's~~ umm Nicolas Maduro's minions are the ones who COUNT the votes.

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This. Fuck every single one of them that either voted for Chavez/Maduro and communism or let it happen. No sympathy and no immigration for these losers.

Voting doesn't matter when ~~Brenda Snipes'~~ er I mean ~~Hugo Chavez's~~ umm Nicolas Maduro's minions are the ones who COUNT the votes.

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