{"id":62800,"date":"2017-04-20T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62800"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T16:13:35","slug":"gun-violence-prevention-and-its-inevitable-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62800","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gun Violence Prevention&#8221; And Its Inevitable Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, banned and confiscated all civilian firearms.<\/p>\n<p>And now, as the Maduro regime&#8217;s support frays under the complete collapse of the Venezuelan economy, he&#8217;s re-arming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, the\u00a0<em>right\u00a0<\/em>Venezuelans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A gun for every militiaman!&#8221; Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said to uniformed militia members outside the presidential palace, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/04\/18\/venezuelas-maduro-to-provide-guns-to-400000-loyalists-amid-peaking-tension.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News reported on Tuesday<\/a>. The Bolivarian militias, created by Maduro&#8217;s predecessor Hugo Chavez, already number in the hundreds of thousands and are being used to supplement the regime&#8217;s armed forces. Maduro is boosting the number of armed supporters in hopes of keeping control over the country from what he labels &#8220;imperialist aggression.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet again &#8211; the necessary precursor to dictatorship was the disarming of the law-abiding.<\/p>\n<p>Just a further lesson &#8211; there can be no compromise with the tyrants &#8211; be they Nicolas Maduro or Michael Bloomberg or Nancy Nord Bence.<\/p>\n<p>Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, banned and confiscated all civilian firearms. And now, as the Maduro regime&#8217;s support frays under the complete collapse of the Venezuelan economy, he&#8217;s re-arming&#8230; &#8230;well, the\u00a0right\u00a0Venezuelans: &#8220;A gun for every militiaman!&#8221; Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said to uniformed militia members outside the presidential palace, Fox News reported on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,51,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62801,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62800\/revisions\/62801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}