Y’all want a take a trip to Caracas? I still have some people over there…. Just kidding, don’t go there, my cousin’s business gets robbed at gun point every month, clockwork.
Mad Max would not make it.
Note that most of the violence is related to drug trafficking. Referencing your piece calling for releasing the POW’s of the drug war except violent ones, there’s really no separating them; use begets sales begets supply begets violence…generations have been born and bred into it, so even if full legalization happened today it would take another generation to flush out the culture, but if it doesn’t happen, in another generation Caracas will be everywhere. And sadly, it’s not just dims and commies that will be at fault.
@JTC the reason why drugs and violence go hand in hand is simple:
When two competing bars, stores, or other businesses have a disagreement, they settle it in court with attorneys.
When two drug dealers have a disagreement, they cannot go to court, and must resort to violence. We saw this with alcohol prohibition, and we are seeing it now with drugs.
Divemedic, true but that’s the effect not the cause. Ban something (booze, dope, guns, ammo, magazines, oreos) and create instant rarity which drives supply which drives price which drives competition which drives (in the case of booze and dope…guns, ammo & oreos yet to be tested) violence. It’s a systemic (gov) thing at the root, but by the time it’s branched out, the only way to end it is deregulation and then wait for attrition to kill off the created pipeline culture.
Like soccer and F1, the US fudddy-duddies are all full of their old-skool selves while hovering at the back of the pack in international competition. In the old days of street duels from the holster, pitchers batting, and the Chicago-to-Evanston road race, Americans had the field to themselves. Wake Up America. It’s time to murder in metric! Get with programme, people.
These Brasilian Olympics will leave Munich in the dust.
January 29th, 2016 at 5:28 pm
Y’all want a take a trip to Caracas? I still have some people over there…. Just kidding, don’t go there, my cousin’s business gets robbed at gun point every month, clockwork.
Mad Max would not make it.
January 29th, 2016 at 11:46 pm
Note that most of the violence is related to drug trafficking. Referencing your piece calling for releasing the POW’s of the drug war except violent ones, there’s really no separating them; use begets sales begets supply begets violence…generations have been born and bred into it, so even if full legalization happened today it would take another generation to flush out the culture, but if it doesn’t happen, in another generation Caracas will be everywhere. And sadly, it’s not just dims and commies that will be at fault.
January 30th, 2016 at 12:49 am
@JTC the reason why drugs and violence go hand in hand is simple:
When two competing bars, stores, or other businesses have a disagreement, they settle it in court with attorneys.
When two drug dealers have a disagreement, they cannot go to court, and must resort to violence. We saw this with alcohol prohibition, and we are seeing it now with drugs.
January 30th, 2016 at 10:15 am
One thing about living in Caracas I never could stomach; all the damn vampires.
January 30th, 2016 at 2:29 pm
Divemedic, true but that’s the effect not the cause. Ban something (booze, dope, guns, ammo, magazines, oreos) and create instant rarity which drives supply which drives price which drives competition which drives (in the case of booze and dope…guns, ammo & oreos yet to be tested) violence. It’s a systemic (gov) thing at the root, but by the time it’s branched out, the only way to end it is deregulation and then wait for attrition to kill off the created pipeline culture.
January 30th, 2016 at 9:28 pm
Like soccer and F1, the US fudddy-duddies are all full of their old-skool selves while hovering at the back of the pack in international competition. In the old days of street duels from the holster, pitchers batting, and the Chicago-to-Evanston road race, Americans had the field to themselves. Wake Up America. It’s time to murder in metric! Get with programme, people.
These Brasilian Olympics will leave Munich in the dust.