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The people have no way of protecting themselves against government-funded gangs. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

Venezuela\u2019s 2012 Disarmament Law banned the private ownership of firearms, and now, according to a new report, its citizens are beginning to realize how gun rights could have kept crime and government tyranny at bay.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,\u201d Javier Vanegas, a Venezuelan teacher of English now exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News<\/a>. \u201cThe government security forces, at the beginning of this debacle, knew they had no real opposition to their force. Once things were this bad, it was a clear declaration of war against an unarmed population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under then-President Hugo Chavez, the \u201cControl of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law\u201d took effect in 2013 and banned the legal commercial sale of guns and munitions to all except government entities. Only 37 firearms were voluntarily surrendered, and over 12,500 were confiscated by force, which represents a small percentage of the country\u2019s estimated one to six million firearms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But banning law-abiding citizens from firearms ownership has meant that the only entities with access to guns are criminal organizations, some of which, known as \u201ccolectivos,\u201d act as proxies for government forces to stamp down pro-democracy opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were set up by the government to act as proxies and exert community control. They’re the guys on the motorcycles in the poor neighborhoods, who killed any protesters,\u201d Vanessa Neumann, the Venezuelan-American president and founder of Asymmetrica, a Washington, D.C.-based political risk research and consulting firm, told Fox. \u201cThe gun reform policy of the government was about social control. As the citizenry got more desperate and hungry and angry with the political situation, they did not want them to be able to defend themselves. It was not about security; it was about a monopoly on violence and social control.\u201d<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO:\u00a0DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation<\/a><\/h2>\n

Now Venezuelan citizens are beginning to regret surrendering their right to own a firearm.<\/p>\n

\u201cVenezuelans didn\u2019t care enough about it. The idea of having the means to protect your home was seen as only needed out in the fields. People never would have believed they needed to defend themselves against the government,\u201d Vanegas continued. \u201cVenezuelans evolved to always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another man, Eduardo Espinel, fled the country due to the rising threat of kidnapping. He told Fox News that \u201ceveryone else but the common citizen\u201d has access to a firearm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis law asks for the disarming of the common people, but everyone else can carry,\u201d Espinel said. \u201cThe kind of law might make sense in a normal country, but in Venezuela, it makes no sense. People are faced with crime and have no easy means to defend themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maribel Arias, who also fled the country two years ago with her husband and four children, expressed a similar concern.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people of Venezuela should have rights for gun carrying because there is just too much crime and people should have the right to defend themselves because the justice system is not working,\u201d Arias asserted. \u201cIf you call the police, the police come only if they want. If they capture the criminal maybe they will take away whatever they stole, but they normally go free again. It\u2019s a vicious cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venezuela\u2019s leaders deny the country\u2019s economic collapse, exploding violence, and human rights violations. Instead, they blame the United States and opposition leaders for waging an \u201ceconomic war.\u201d<\/p>\n

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