How Venezuela’s Good Citizens Were Disarmed is a Lesson for US

Venezuela is paying the price for the gun ban.The civilians are unable to defend themselves from criminal actors and from this Maduro regime’s abuses.

The uprising would have taken a different path and a different result if civilians had the right to defend themselves with firearms they once owned.

But, the trigger of gun prohibition wasn’t pulled in an instant. Over several years, Venezuelan authorities chipped away at individual gun rights. As they did so, crime rates crept higher and higher.

Venezuela’s skyrocketing murder rate. After Hug Chavez became president of Venezuela, he instituted a public disarmament campaign. The murder rate just kept going up.

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