In Venezuela
A country that’s on the brink of financial collapse decided to destroy a bunch of guns:
Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries.
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.
Meanwhile:
I wouldn’t want that guy having a gun either.
August 18th, 2016 at 5:03 pm
So they’re destroying collectible Lugars?
August 18th, 2016 at 6:04 pm
“…a deep recession…” – propagandists
Uh huh? Try saying; authoritarian, top down, command and control over every, teeny weeny, last little aspect of everybody’s lives, by destroying all means of production, under threat as color of law, at gun point, for your own good.
You know, like here, only not in slow motion.
http://tinyurl.com/zbkbag7
Propagandists call collapse of socialist paradise a “recession”. The story here isn’t the guns, the gun confiscation is a mere symptom.
August 18th, 2016 at 6:35 pm
Looks like he is reading the serial numbers (on frame facing the muzzle.) If fully checked to see if it was empty, it’s no big deal.
August 18th, 2016 at 7:44 pm
How many zip guns do I have to trade for a bigger TV?
August 18th, 2016 at 8:26 pm
The guy is one of their experts in firearms and disarmament… SENADES is Servicio Nacional para el Desarme or National Service for Disarmament.
And that is why crime is so high.
August 18th, 2016 at 9:47 pm
*sigh* Another piece of history lost to book-burning fetishists.
August 18th, 2016 at 10:40 pm
So, another country, albeit a socialist banana republic country, takes action to remove arms from its law-abiding citizenry with the purposely false narrative of “making everyone safe”.
Good.
Venezuela will be just another country for Americans who cherish inherent rights, individual freedoms and liberties to point at when debating progressive and socialist politicians, their ilk and the pimps and whores in their media.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:57 pm
At least someone will benefit from this; the criminal gangs will be pleased now that more of their victims are unable to defend themselves.
Criminals prefer unarmed victims.
August 21st, 2016 at 11:22 am
Electrical goods? The electricity is almost never reliable in a collapsing socialist utopia. The guns, well, they are probably a bit too reliable for the peace of the socialists’ minds.