Spain: Far-right party enlists former generals as candidates

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Spain: Far-right party enlists former generals as candidates
Aritz Parra, Associated Press
Updated 2:30 pm CDT, Wednesday, March 20, 2019

MADRID (AP) — A far-right party is making political waves in Spain by advocating looser gun control laws and recruiting retired military officers as candidates in a parliamentary election next month.

Vox party leader Santiago Abascal said Spaniards should be allowed to keep firearms at home and to use them in "real life-threatening situations" without fear of legal consequences. Spain currently allows civilians to possess guns only for sporting purposes.

"Our laws treat criminals like victims and honest citizens like criminals," Abascal told armas.es, a website specializing in weapons, in an interview Wednesday.

Abascal, 42, has bragged about carrying a handgun himself. The politician was born and raised in the northern Basque region, where his family was for years a target of separatist militant group ETA. He has a special gun license given on a case by case basis for professional or personal safety.



Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Spain-s-far-right-seeks-looser-arms-control-laws-13702262.php

[rockfordfile]

1. Those words sound familiar.

[Evolve Dammit]

2. Nationalism is global and dictators in vogue. Trump is loving it. Bannon and LePen

types promote it. If only the immigrants, enemy media, journalists and liberals could be rounded up, THEN America would be great again! The global scale of success is chilling stuff.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I hope we are not too late waiting for the pendulm to start swinging back.

We seem to be in several races for time.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Amen. Well put.

[Dawson Leery]

5. The child molesting baby/snatching Catholic Church will be thrilled

if he were in power.

[Judi Lynn]

6. The long drought after Franco's passing would be ended.

Santiago Abascal enjoying a "smoke" with a fellow @$$hole.