It makes sense.
If you have a Socialist state in economic decline with rising public anger at a corrupt left-wing oligarchy, it makes sense to launch a gun control bid to disarm the population. And I'm not even talking about Obama, but Maduro, the insane ex-bus driver presiding over a permanent Socialist revolution which took Venezuela from wealth to food riots as starving mobs swarm supermarkets.
So he's doing the logical thing. Gun control.
Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world's most crime-ridden countries.
Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a combination of seizures and a voluntary program to swap guns for electrical goods.
Reverol is exactly the kind of guy you want in charge of gun control because...
President Nicolas Maduro promoted Reverol this month, days after the United States accused the former anti-drugs tsar of taking bribes from cocaine traffickers.
That's okay as Venezuela's government pretty much consists of Socialist cocaine traffickers. Also seizing guns may not be a great plan for disarming gangs because...
Venezuela has the world's second highest murder rate and the street gangs that plague its poor neighborhoods have become increasingly heavily armed in recent years, at a time when a deep recession has reduced resources available to police.
Gangs often get weapons from the police, either by stealing them or buying them from corrupt officers, experts say.
Because money is kind of worthless in Venezuela due to inflation which its government doesn't believe exists.
"We are going to bring disarmament and peace," Reverol told reporters, while police officers drilled and sawed at rusty shotguns, home made pistols and some newer weapons.
But while Venezuela can't feed its people, it's rolling out a dream lefty gun control effort.
Venezuela has also bought laser technology to mark ammunition, Reverol said, in an attempt to keep a registry of the bullets given out to the South American nation's many state and municipal police forces.
Experts say that much of the ammunition used in crimes in Venezuela is made at the country's government munitions factory and sold on by corrupt police.
It's almost like the problem here is government, not guns.