Anonymous ID: 809354 Dec. 14, 2018, 12:24 p.m. No.4311777   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1787 >>2072

Venezuelans regret gun ban, 'a declaration of war against an unarmed population'

 

CUCUTA, Venezuela/Colombia border โ€“ As Venezuela continues to crumble under the socialist dictatorship of President Nicolas Maduro, some are expressing words of warning โ€“ and resentment โ€“ against a six-year-old gun control bill that stripped citizens of their weapons.

โ€œGuns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,โ€ Javier Vanegas, 28, a Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News. โ€œThe 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.โ€

 

Under the direction of then-President Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan National Assembly in 2012 enacted the โ€œControl of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law,โ€ with the explicit aim to โ€œdisarm all citizens.โ€ 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 โ€“ were by force.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuelans-regret-gun-prohibition-we-could-have-defended-ourselves