They are a good example of a once prosperous democracy that turned to progressivist socialism relatively recently.
Germany is another example of a country that confiscated the privately owned firearms before their Nazi Reich. We know how that turned out.
There were both industrialized nations with wealth and opportunity. That said, we need to come to one of the two following conclusions from these examples to reconcile it to our beliefs:
-We are better than the Venezuelans and Germans and they are bad or stupid or bigoted people.
Or
-A voting majority of humans can fall susceptible to bad political ideas that lead down a really bad path.
They are 2 examples vs tons of examples where govs are not shooting at the citizen (like almost all of Europe nowadays).
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