The people are starving in the paradise of central planning known as Venezuela. Starving slaves tend to be uppity slaves so the Venezuelan government has decided to attempt to secure its power by redoubling its efforts to disarm the slaves:
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.
What’s rather entertaining through is the source of the slaves’ firearms:
Gangs often get weapons from the police, either by stealing them or buying them from corrupt officers, experts say.
I’m sure the police love this renewed effort since it will create more opportunities for them to sell more firearms.
Venezuela is fucked. Anybody living there should do everything in their power to get out. Things are only going to get worse as the slaves become more desperate and the government responds by becoming more tyrannical.
It’s a shame 99% of Bernie Sanders fans, or for that matter fans of any redistributionist, micromanaging politician, won’t confront Venezuela as an example of the unworkability of central planning.
As for Venezuela’s gun-chopping theater, I hope that people retained most of their weapons. They’ll need them.