Monica Showalter, at the American Thinker today points out that Venezuela's top thug unwittingly writes an NRA ad for the Second Amendment. I had not seen this, but it is both incredibly sad, and hilarious at the same time. I alternate between laughing to myself, and feeling deeply sorry for Venezuelans, who at one time had access to guns, though no Second Amendment. After a long campaign by the government, similar to the one waged by gun-grabbers here I might add, the government enacted gun control in 2012.
We will never know if Venezuela's citizens might have prevented a Communist take over or not, but we do know that the Communist dictators maintained power because they have a monopoly of force, as Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello points out:
BREAKING NEWS | Diosdado Cabello: "The country is calm because the monopoly on arms in Venezuela is held by the State". "Holding the position of arms has allowed us the control so that no group or anyone can claim acts of violence"
A monopoly of violence was NOT what the Founders wanted. They had just fought a war for independence from a tyranny that attempted a monopoly of violence. Being Christian, they also knew that man is a fallen creature and inevitably can be tempted to tyranny. So, to avoid tyranny, and to avoid having a large professional army (which they couldn't afford in any case) they came up with the Second Amendment together with the militia. It is probably why our republic has lasted as long as it has.
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