Post by dustdevil28 on Aug 4, 2012 17:21:17 GMT -8
Two articles to consider during our current second amendment debate.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's government banned sales of guns and ammunition Friday with a measure that officials said is aimed at fighting rampant violent crime.
Private gun shops are now prohibited from selling guns under the measure, which had been announced previously.
Only the police and the military will be exempt from the ban on gun sales, Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said.
Critics noted that only a small percentage of guns have recently been sold legally to permit holders and said most gun sales have long been illegal and unregulated.
townhall.com/tipsheet/helenwhalencohen/2012/06/03/venezuela_bans_private_gun_ownership_china_condemns_gun_rights
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The capital Caracas has one of the highest murder rates per capita in the world, as armed gangs often operate with impunity in the urban areas and the poor surrounding suburbs are rarely patrolled by police. Gangs take advantage of the lack of police presence to carry out crimes in broad daylight. Deteriorating economic conditions have been neglected by the government. Human rights groups have flagged extrajudicial killings of political opponents by security agents of Hugo Chavez's government. This government also stopped publishing data on murder rates years ago. But a leaked report in 2010 put the national murder rate at 75 per 100,000 people - it was 49 four years before - and the Caracas homicide rate at 220 per 100,000 people. If the murder rate had stayed the same as the year before Chavez took power, some 70,000 victims would be alive today.
worldnews.about.com/od/crime/tp/Top-Murder-Rates-In-The-World.htm
-DD
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's government banned sales of guns and ammunition Friday with a measure that officials said is aimed at fighting rampant violent crime.
Private gun shops are now prohibited from selling guns under the measure, which had been announced previously.
Only the police and the military will be exempt from the ban on gun sales, Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami said.
Critics noted that only a small percentage of guns have recently been sold legally to permit holders and said most gun sales have long been illegal and unregulated.
townhall.com/tipsheet/helenwhalencohen/2012/06/03/venezuela_bans_private_gun_ownership_china_condemns_gun_rights
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The capital Caracas has one of the highest murder rates per capita in the world, as armed gangs often operate with impunity in the urban areas and the poor surrounding suburbs are rarely patrolled by police. Gangs take advantage of the lack of police presence to carry out crimes in broad daylight. Deteriorating economic conditions have been neglected by the government. Human rights groups have flagged extrajudicial killings of political opponents by security agents of Hugo Chavez's government. This government also stopped publishing data on murder rates years ago. But a leaked report in 2010 put the national murder rate at 75 per 100,000 people - it was 49 four years before - and the Caracas homicide rate at 220 per 100,000 people. If the murder rate had stayed the same as the year before Chavez took power, some 70,000 victims would be alive today.
worldnews.about.com/od/crime/tp/Top-Murder-Rates-In-The-World.htm
-DD
