A Reuters story caught my attention last week. It read, in part: “Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday…”
“Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods.
“Venezuela has the world’s second highest murder rate and the street gangs that plague its poor neighborhoods have become increasingly heavily armed in recent years, at a time when a deep recession has reduced resources available to police.”
Now the basket case of a country of Venezuela and its Fidel Castro loving socialists who have taken over the country and ruined it to the point that there isn’t often food to buy – Soviet Union style, essentially operate a police-state so, how could street gangs become more “heavily armed in recent years?”
Because even in oppressive police states, gun control does not work. Here was the next line in the Reuters story: “Gangs often get weapons from the police, either by stealing them or buying them from corrupt officers, experts say.”
That reality as well as international mafia-like gun runners demonstrate how silly it is to expect that taking guns away from the good guys will somehow also keep weapons out of the hands of bad guys. And of course to the Venezuelan regime the chief bad guys are political opponents.
Our Second Amendment is about just that very thing.
Venezuela is another example of how gun control doesn’t work
Robert Pratt
A Reuters story caught my attention last week. It read, in part: “Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday…”
“Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods.
“Venezuela has the world’s second highest murder rate and the street gangs that plague its poor neighborhoods have become increasingly heavily armed in recent years, at a time when a deep recession has reduced resources available to police.”
Now the basket case of a country of Venezuela and its Fidel Castro loving socialists who have taken over the country and ruined it to the point that there isn’t often food to buy – Soviet Union style, essentially operate a police-state so, how could street gangs become more “heavily armed in recent years?”
Because even in oppressive police states, gun control does not work. Here was the next line in the Reuters story: “Gangs often get weapons from the police, either by stealing them or buying them from corrupt officers, experts say.”
That reality as well as international mafia-like gun runners demonstrate how silly it is to expect that taking guns away from the good guys will somehow also keep weapons out of the hands of bad guys. And of course to the Venezuelan regime the chief bad guys are political opponents.
Our Second Amendment is about just that very thing.