Opinion
Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- Sometimes even the worst of the media inadvertently stumbles upon the truth.
On April 30th 2019, MSNBC reported that the socialist government of Venezuela was running over its citizens with armored vehicles amidst protests of the government’s ongoing tyranny.
MSNBC reporter Kerry Sanders, seeking to explain how the government could oppress the population to this extent, invoked the disparity of power between the government and the people. In doing so, he unwittingly managed to explain why America’s founding fathers saw fit to enshrine the right to keep and bear arms within the Bill of Rights.
Sanders noted: “You have to understand, in Venezuela gun ownership is not something that is open to everybody. So if the military have the guns, they have the power and as long as Nicolas Maduro controls the military, he controls the country.”
The result, particularly when coupled with socialism’s contempt for individualism and self-determination, is the unchecked abuse of authority at the cost of innocent lives.
It was a connection so obvious that even MSNBC couldn’t miss it.
These admissions, however unwitting, were a refreshing contrast from the usual MSNBC rhetoric, which tends to favor the most far-reaching forms of gun control. Even gun control advocate Bernie Sanders – who favors a nationwide ban on America’s most popular rifles, as well as on the standard capacity magazines Americans rely on for self-defense –isn’t anti-gun enough to avoid MSNBC’s criticism on the issue.
But while the political elite hide behind the guise of “common-sense gun laws,” in reality they believe that they should be the only ones protected by guns. The rest of the population, in their view, is not to be trusted.
Now the world is being forced to confront the reality of how that has worked out in Venezuela.
After years of pushing anti-gun rhetoric, MSNBC accidentally made one of the most powerful cases for the Second Amendment, showing that without it law-abiding citizens will not have the means to protect themselves from criminals or from the most blatant forms of government oppression.
The men and women of the National Rifle Association have understood this since 1871. And while it’s taken MSNBC a while to catch up to the rest of us, we hope it’s a lesson they won’t soon forget.
For the people of Venezuela, unfortunately, the lesson arrived too late.
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“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” Thomas Jefferson
Don’t worry, they forgot the lesson (even they even understood it themselves) before the end of the broadcast.
In Michigan alone, there are more than 800,000 deer hunters in the woods on November 15th, with guns. The horror! More guns than the army! Add the rest of the deer hunting population and you have a huge army. Military folks are Americans first and I’m pretty sure they would smell tyranny in the air and refuse to fire on their own folks that probably feel the same way about the political atmosphere that they do. Don’t worry, be happy!
Speaking as an American decorated combat veteran, if a corrupted government controls and directs its military, and that military follows orders (legal or otherwise), it won’t matter if every citizen has a weapon in each hand or weapons coming out of their ears, the citizenry will lose every battle of force. People who fail to believe this fact have never spent a day in a military uniform and/or have no concept of the lethality of their own military forces. Take your “guns” and go up against a tank or an attack helicopter (not to mention a fighter jet or bomber)… Read more »
This why we are armed. Because of people who kill innocent people in the name of tyranny and oppression. The four father’s were very wise and educated men who seen a need for our citizens to be armed. If you own an arm keep train with it. If not get one learn from a compatent person who knows what they are doing. Safety first, if your un sure about a firearm and how use it safely, don’t touch it. Find a good knowledge able person and learn.
You can consume Satan’s gun control Koolaid to your own demise and possibly meet the wrath of God or REFUSE TO COMPLY to your own genocide. The choice is yours to make. God wins in the end the only variable is the body count of those who worship Satan’s Islam/Nazi NWO by consenting with compliance.