Retired Venezuela General Angel Vivas has been a critic of the “Bolivarian Revolution.” While still in service, he dared to question Chavez’s decision to change the Army motto to “Fatherland, Socialism or Death” same as the one that the Cuban Army spouts. This disagreement cost him a court-martial and was retired.

As a civilian, he continued to criticize and pester the government to the point that President Maduro sent a team of the Defense Ministry’s Counter Intelligence section to have him arrested and taken away accused of laying wire across the street high enough to decapitate an irregular from the Bolivarian civilian goon squads.

He refused to be arrested…with feelings.

As the functionaries came to the front of his house, the general, rifle in hand, refused the procedure.

via Videos & Photos here | Intentaron allanar casa del general (r) Ángel Vivas.

At the sight of the general packing some serious firepower, the government goons took pause long enough that the neighbors came out in force to support the general.

The goons eventually decided that decided that leaving was the smartest of choices and retreated.  Neighbors packed both ends of the street with debris blocking entrance and are guarding vigil.

Yes, if the government decides to send a full hard-nosed team of shooters, they will take him out, no questions, but it is a good example of how one man armed with the appropriate tool managed to throw the plans of bullies down in the gutter.

Unfortunately Venezuela’s due paying the Gun Control bill and the payment has been in blood & lives.  The general is the exception because his military background allowed him to have the weapons you and I can have by just going to a gun store here, but denied to the people down there.  But Gun Control goes beyond the hardware itself: It set people up to be “pacifists” and reject violence leaving themselves easy targets for those who have no qualms about using violence to retain power. Here is an example: Ukraine is also going through similar problems and armored personnel carriers have been sent to quell the protests. People there kinda resented it:

Now, Venezuela is full of very cheap, very available gasoline, but people had not have come to terms that several well placed Molotov cocktails can do a lot to counter governmental repressive measures.
They were fed the line of Peace at All Cost… and they have not realized the bill is very high on that particular item