I think I can hear the Venezuelan criminals applauding as I'm typing this.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...merica-18288430

I bet Senators Lautenmummy and Boxer are really jealous. Little Napoleon Bloomberg is thinking about slipping in a NYC gun ban in between his new bike helmet law and sugary drink ban.

And this surprises us because???????????

So they ban the sales of legal guns, because of the high homicide rate in their country... but in reality the criminals are still going to be able to get illegal guns and still be able to commit crimes. Yeah, that's going to work out really well for them!

 

Unless, Hugo Chavez is using the crime rate as a cover and is looking to disarm the population in order to gain more control over them? I think I saw an article the other day that he doesn't have much time left to live, as he has a very aggresive cancer.

I bet Senators Lautenmummy and Boxer are really jealous. Little Napoleon Bloomberg is thinking about slipping in a NYC gun ban in between his new bike helmet law and sugary drink ban.

 

Maybe they should just move down there..

hey hugo's all jammed up with cancer, From what the news says he's only has a few months to live.

Ok. Lets keep this to firearms before moved to politics.

 

This really is a shame. This February when I was in Florida, I met quite a number of IPSC competitors from Venezuela, who were good folks. It seems now they will be unable to buy new guns. Does not say anything about existing ones?

 

If so, the prices on "currently owned" guns will skyrocket.

 

There was a discussion I was listening to yesterday, with a preacher from Chicago, talking about such a huge increase in crime in Chicago, and one such solution would be tighter gun control, but in reality, I wish people would understand, guns do not cause crime. Criminals do not follow laws to begin with.

Let's see, wonder what the news stories will look like, it's not like we don't have a precedent set for when things like this have happened throughout history. May I add that historically speaking I do believe it's a 100% chance of it repeating itself.

Ironically Venezuela was known throughout the Caribbean as the main source for illegal guns and more recently drugs. It comes as no surprise to Caricom nations and I expect now the rest of the world that with his rapidly declining health,eroding support among the typically poorer and desperate voters he would try to limit access to firearms.Not so much to curb the highest violent crime in Latin America but in an attempt to hobble a country that is ripe for revolution.

I remember that the first time I saw a sub machine gun was on a Venezuelan patrol boat when I strayed too close to their waters trolling for king fish.

Let's keep an eye on this. If it plays out like we think, it could be a tremendous boon to our cause.

Let's keep an eye on this. If it plays out like we think, it could be a tremendous boon to our cause.

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

Let's keep an eye on this. If it plays out like we think, it could be a tremendous boon to our cause.

 

Elaborate please.

Elaborate please.

I believe it a twofold example of a possible boom to the pro gun lobby.

1: When the ban goes into effect and there is no noticeable decrease of gun violence and even an increase before and after the elections it will prove in tangible terms that buybacks and to deprive the populace of legally owning firearms and defending themselves is a fools errand.

2: Illustrates that in times of political crisis the powers that be find it necessary to tightly control firearms and can only do so when legally registered.

The borders with Venezuelan is so porous that arms and ammo pour across it's boundaries with Columbia,Brazil and even the Guyana's so the only persons the ban will effect is legal gun owners who for the most part is still among Chevez's opposition and repeatedly preyed upon by government backed and armed gangs.

There is a lot we in America can take away from Venezuela's conflicts especially in our own uncertain times.