• Venezuela one of the most dangerous countries, with 24,000 murders last year.
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[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43523821]No, that's the United States, with 89 guns per 100 people, Venezula is 59th. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country[/url][/QUOTE] no one knows how many firearms are in Venezula, and a wikipedia source from 2007 isn't going to know either. Perhaps the guardian is using a more up to date survey?
[QUOTE=barttool;43593392]Please, stop it with these kinds of comments. You comment is implying that such regulations are actually enforced in Venezuela when they're not. Illegal arms trade in Venezuela is huge, it's extremely easy for anyone to acquire a weapon. Games, in the first place before the "ban", were mostly acquired through piracy because buying original games is stupidly expensive (literally all of my highschool friends with consoles had them chipped and modded to run pirated copies, and so did I when I lived there). The ban on violent videogames did basically nothing because you can still go to any flea market in any town or city and find all the pirated videogames you want. These two regulations by the government were at the time mostly used as scapegoats to point fingers in another direction in respect to why violence is such a huge problem in Venezuela. In any case, any comparison you want to make between 1st world countries and Venezuela is invalid right away because of such state of lawlessness that Venezuela finds itself in. The whole country is being kept together by very thin and weak strings that could snap off at any moment.[/QUOTE] as a venezuelan game developer, i'd like to add that the ban is not actually "violent videogames", it's actually a ban on "warlike" videogames AND toys, so under the same draconic legislation they banned any toy resembling a gun (including airsoft weapons if that wasn't obvious enough, killing off the little airsoft community that existed here, and also paintball guns can't be sold here anymore), as well as banning any game considered violent, leaving that up to the interpretation of the authorities because we don't have anything like the ESRB ratings, and the ESRB ratings themselves don't have any legal value over here. the venezuelan game developing community, which is actually growing, have proposed a parallel to the ESRB rating system called the TCSE, but that would imply reclassifying games under it and since we don't even import that many games because piracy is rampant here the system is only used for venezuelan made games. the law IS enforced for locally made games for some reason, and it was enforced for imported games for like a week after the law was enacted but it's mostly ignored nowadays, considering all it did was kill whatever market there was for "original" games. the venezuelan government does however, genuinely believe that violent videogames, toy guns, western media, violent films (Maduro infamously said that he though Spiderman 3 was a really violent film), and even telenovelas are a cause of violence. as for guns, most that are used for robberies are either US made, guerilla weapons or weapons taken from cops and the military, grenades are infamously easy to obtain, and some gangs even have schemes where thugs rent guns if they don't have the money to buy one. there are no legal gunstores, and as far as I'm aware of the few civilians allowed to have weapons are from security companies or in the police.
[QUOTE=Big Bang;43527558]close but no cigar, venezuela is actually rich as shit (roughly the same GDP of the United Arab Emirates), we're just so poorly managed they seem equivalent because of the sheer amount of money that goes to corrupt politicians and the political elite, as well as how much money is wasted on gifts to other countries with similar political goes (namely Cuba), and how much money is wasted giving shit for free to the people that shouldn't be free in the first place (Our gasoline is cheaper than water. Literally)[/QUOTE] Seriously? That rich? Wow, and I thought my country was corrupt as fuck. Do the Venezuelan authorities try to fight the corruption or are they hand-in-hand with the politicians?
[QUOTE=Sobek-;43527211]24,000 people... wow. Out of curiosity, how does that compare to the friendly death toll of the Afghan war to date?[/QUOTE] 3k in 13 years. You cant even begin to compare the two though
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