Midknight Review -- new and revised: Venezuela is doing what the American Progressives want to do. Same play book, different country.

Venezuela crushes 2,000 guns in public, plans registry of bullets...

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.

Gangs often get weapons from the police, either by stealing them or buying them from corrupt officers, experts say.

Editor's notes: This news/opinion piece wants the reader to believe that guns are the problem. Never mind that the gangs of Venezuela are running free and their accomplices , in the supply of guns and ammo, have been the Venezuelan government. Unless and until more prisons are built and a concerted effort at ridding the nation of its gangland population, the murder rate issue will continue.
The "problem" of gun ownership is nothing but a cover for a growing and dictatorial ruling class. Corruption at the top, and a willingness to allow the criminal community to run free, are much more the problem than "ownership."

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Venezuela is doing what the American Progressives want to do. Same play book, different country.

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