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WIGNALL'S WORLDMark Wignall
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Give us guns now
It is obvious that the only avenue not taken or tried is the arming of the general population. The police force has its personal agenda, and that is the personal business of those members who rely on the 'runnings' for additional income.
Making guns available to law-abiding citizens will very obviously shock a nation of people who have been sold on the idea that there are already too many guns in town. And they would be right. There are too many guns in town. In the wrong hands.
When a car drives out from under the slimy underbelly of the zones and the subculture which the politics canonised in its heyday, all of those three men on board know that the citizenry is unarmed. If the men in that car which stopped by that stall knew that it was likely that two or three of the men standing by were legally 'strapped', they would be very wary of looking any 'food' in the broad daylight.
In a section of St Louis, I gather that there is a gun buyback programme being run. US$50 for a handgun and US$100 for a rifle. Jamaican gunmen would laugh at that offer to scorn. US$50 (less than J$4,000) can barely sustain a family of five for a week. With only basics. US$100 (less than J$8,000) cannot properly fete a gunman and his woman (for the night) at a street dance for more than four hours. The gun amnesty should not be tried in Jamaica anymore because it is always just a nine-day wonder. The citizenry must be armed. 'The politics' cannot protect us. Indeed it appears that 'the politics' is in the business of impoverishing us. The police cannot protect us because significant sections of the force are always entangled in resource shortages and widespread corruption and links with criminality.
Private security guards only protect the rich, the famous and the politicians. They cannot protect us. Our neighbours cannot protect us because they themselves are forced to cower behind closed doors. Give us guns. Bring into force a national ID which will require it being on the person as long as he/she is in the public domain. Then open up the licensing authority to no less stringent scrutiny of the applicant but a more liberal issuing of permits.
This JLP government has not indicated that it has a single clue as to how to solve the violent crime problem in the here-and-now. Before gunmen take us to that great beyond, we need a fighting chance.
We need guns!
WIGNALL'S WORLDMark Wignall
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Give us guns now
It is obvious that the only avenue not taken or tried is the arming of the general population. The police force has its personal agenda, and that is the personal business of those members who rely on the 'runnings' for additional income.
Making guns available to law-abiding citizens will very obviously shock a nation of people who have been sold on the idea that there are already too many guns in town. And they would be right. There are too many guns in town. In the wrong hands.
When a car drives out from under the slimy underbelly of the zones and the subculture which the politics canonised in its heyday, all of those three men on board know that the citizenry is unarmed. If the men in that car which stopped by that stall knew that it was likely that two or three of the men standing by were legally 'strapped', they would be very wary of looking any 'food' in the broad daylight.
In a section of St Louis, I gather that there is a gun buyback programme being run. US$50 for a handgun and US$100 for a rifle. Jamaican gunmen would laugh at that offer to scorn. US$50 (less than J$4,000) can barely sustain a family of five for a week. With only basics. US$100 (less than J$8,000) cannot properly fete a gunman and his woman (for the night) at a street dance for more than four hours. The gun amnesty should not be tried in Jamaica anymore because it is always just a nine-day wonder. The citizenry must be armed. 'The politics' cannot protect us. Indeed it appears that 'the politics' is in the business of impoverishing us. The police cannot protect us because significant sections of the force are always entangled in resource shortages and widespread corruption and links with criminality.
Private security guards only protect the rich, the famous and the politicians. They cannot protect us. Our neighbours cannot protect us because they themselves are forced to cower behind closed doors. Give us guns. Bring into force a national ID which will require it being on the person as long as he/she is in the public domain. Then open up the licensing authority to no less stringent scrutiny of the applicant but a more liberal issuing of permits.
This JLP government has not indicated that it has a single clue as to how to solve the violent crime problem in the here-and-now. Before gunmen take us to that great beyond, we need a fighting chance.
We need guns!