Mixed reviews about easing red tape for law-abiding citizens to license firearms
With crime soaring, there is legislation in the pipeline to bring the circulation of illegal weapons under control and off the hands of criminals. One of our viewers, Israel Moran, proposed a question about the protection of the law-abiding citizens. So we asked on Tuesday night: Should the government make it less onerous for private citizens to license firearms for their own self defense? Sixty-six percent of viewers who voted on our e-poll agree with Moran and feel that they need to protect themselves. The remaining thirty-four percent, however, rejected the idea.
With the violence just across the border, and creeping closer, it seems daily, the right to bear arms and protect oneself and property should not be made so onerous. If the people cannot get the guns licensed thru the proper channels, because of all the “red tape” involved then you create that which you are trying to prevent.
Because if it comes down to waiting for the police to show up for help, ( even though I live a block and a half away from the station , and if the police are on a call in the ONLY Vehicle, then you just have to wait until they return) Or using an illegal weapon to defend my family and property from some imminent threat, whether that’s a home invasion, which also seems to be on the rise in Belize these days
then the old adage ; better to judged by 12, than carried by 6 comes to mind.
In the States, some states severely restrict gun ownership, and others let anyone without a criminal record or mental disorder own guns.
Studies and statistics show that where gun ownership is easy for law-abiding people, violent crime is lower. The criminals always have to think twice because any intended victim could shoot them.
In places where gun ownership is severely limited, and few people can get guns LEGALLY, violent crime is much higher.
It’s common sense. Criminals carry guns even though it is illegal for them. What do they care? They are breaking other laws anyway.
It is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have one.
I say, let anyone with a clean police record and no mental illness own a gun, and if they take a gun training and safety class, let them carry it with them wherever they go.
Gun ownership and the ease of becoming a legal gun owner is widelly disputed. The following website present a person who has studied it’s effects, and has drawn an interesting conclusion.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493636.html
Thanks for the link… “from the west”
Adding to that information… Mexico has some of the toughest gun laws in the region… yet their death toll from gun violence is horrific (>28,000 so far THIS YEAR)….
despite the tough laws the criminals’ firepower matches that of their own army…..
What makes Dean and Johnny believe that tightening the screw on licensed firearm holders will curb crime?? They have been doing this for quite some time and the crime wave is getting worse!!!
Get some sense!!!
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In any other situation that would be overwhelming.
Look at the good commentary above. Any oppose?
Hear us: “Let us protect ourselves”. Let’s debate this
a every level and appoint (since that has re[laced voting)
people with common sense to draft our laws.. C’mon, man!
Thanks from the west…Here’s some more info to ponder.
http://www.lizmichael.com/ninemyth.htm
Cho! I neva know we got suh real Republican, NRA, Red neck-ish types dah Belize!!!!!! Look like Sarah Palin wouldah get welcome with open arms ova yah!
everybody pretends to not know where the guns them a come from. Look at the boarder and there shitty security. Anybody can bring guns from guatemala. GOB needs to tighten up and boarder security measures. Put more soldiers to guard these boarders especially the river.
Welcome Sarah if a wah…Dread.. Dudus woulda be betta?
Seriously though….Tell me who a protect me & you?
Dread I can guarantee you that you can safely walk in gun friendly “redneckish” areas vs gun restrictive states look at California, Chicago and New York some of the worst gun laws in the USA but yet some of the worst crime ridden areas.
Look at Mexico, Belize and Jamaica some of the most draconian gun laws in the western hemisphere but yet we are crime ridden. Criminals don’t care about the law that’s why they are called criminals.