“Venezuelans didn’t care enough about it. The idea of having the
means to protect your home was seen as only needed out in the fields.
People never would have believed they needed to defend themselves against the government,” Vanegas explained. “Venezuelans evolved to
always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of
human rights, and would always have a good enough control of
criminality.”
You voted the tyrants in.
He said it didn’t take long for such a wide-eyed
public perception to fall apart. “If guns had been a stronger part of
our culture, if there had been a sense of duty for one to protect their
individual rights, and as a show of force against a government power –
and had legal carry been a common thing – it would have made a huge
difference,” he lamented.
Today is the day the BoR was made official law; the 2nd Amendment was there because a bunch of smart people saw the possible need for citizens to be able to tell the .gov to go to hell. We lose that, we'll be the next Venezuela.
The Second Amendment is a doomsday
provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where
all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand
for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost
the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees.
However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them
unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once. -- Judge Alex Kozinski
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During one of L.A.'s many riots, the gun stores were mobbed with people buying guns. The clerks filled out the 4473s, took their money, and told them, "Okay, come back in ten days and pick up your gun." The people were outraged: "Ten days! We need 'em NOW!" The clerks shrugged and told them, "YOU voted for the idiots that passed these laws. Now you can live with the laws you wanted."
Did they learn anything? Nope.
Sad thing is, while many of us bark and woof like big dogs.... I wonder how many will be willing to pull the trigger when you know all your comforts and family will be forfeit. Sobering thought, and don't think the punks in power do not know this and count on it.
"Hope" is not a strategy.
Yeah. Most people on the right, despite the crap from the leftists, are law-abiding and, as Larry Correia pointed out a while ago, don't see violence as a standard tool, to be turned up or down as needed; it's either 'on' or 'off'. It'd take an awful lot for most to turn the switch to 'on'.
Of course, they start seeing friends/family/coworkers/people on the news being killed because 'We knew he owned guns which we were ordered to confiscate, and he argued with us and so-', it's going to cause some to say "Screw it" and hit the switch.
Which, I tend to think, is why most news media would do everything they could to keep such incidents local news: most of them LIKE the idea of confiscation, and know people hearing about "This 60-year old vet was killed by police because he said 'No' ".
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