Could I love ArgyPres Milei any more already? After setting about his benighted country’s entrenched bureaucracy with a chainsaw and getting their sclerotic economy to move in the upwards direction, we now have this:
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, signed a decree this week lowering the minimum age required to purchase a firearm from 21 to 18 years old. The decree asserts that the minimum age required for the acquisition and possession of firearms should coincide with the age of majority established by Argentine law of 18 years old.
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“For years, no one was encouraged to make this decision. We did not hesitate. While we disarm narco-terrorist gangs and organized crime, we celebrate that good citizens can have access to weapons being Legitimate Users,” she continued. “Empty speeches are a thing of the past. In this Government, we are making the right of Argentines to protect themselves and live in freedom a reality.”
Of course, the Argies have a long way to go before they enjoy anything like our Second Amendment freedoms (see the article for details) but all journeys begin with a single step, or something.
I hope Trump makes changes and cuts in America in January just like Milei did in Argentina.
Cut the bureaucracy
And I agree with 18 for owning a gun.
January can’t come soon enough.
Fuck the liberals.
The list of first day changes will be long. It will be fun to see the media’s heads explode. I can’t wait to see the photo’s of the new President sitting in the oval with a Giant pile of Executive Orders on the desk to be signed.
Like many of the Farm Boys in my class I was given a Varmint rife on my fourteenth birthday. Of course it was kept in the locked ( wooden ) gun Rack in my Father’s office for supervised use, but it was still mine.
The Telegraph has taken against Milei because he’s locked the currency to the dollar.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/13/argentinas-javier-milei-has-made-a-horrible-mistake/
As I’ve said elsewhere (mostly in Insty’s Open Threads), if the Argies go after the Falklands again, I’m not sure whose side I’ll be on.
Which government would the Falklanders prefer? When that question was Margaret Thatcher vs the typical Latin American kleptocracy in Argentina, I had little doubt that they would prefer to stick with the British-style government they were used to. Now, that may have changed. If they’re rational, there’s only one viable argument to stick with FGB – who knows how long Milei will last or what will replace him.
Millei is showing that the answer is in plain sight.
The hard part is the rent-seekers in the .gov and associated industries that don’t want the answer.
“…she continued…”
Typo, or failure to cite the actual speaker?
It’s in the linked article…
You haven’t had an Instalanch in a long time. And I haven’t visited your site – this iteration – in a very long time. Glad to see you’re still hitting the old keyboard.