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There's a fair amount of anti-American sentiment which may or may not be warranted. Let's all agree to skip over it and focus on the gun rights stuff.
They passed laws to prevent gangs from getting guns and bullets (sic) [cartridges] needed to rob law-abiding citizens. Seems they, like most other politicians, forgot that criminals, by definition, do not obey the laws. I'm not going to get into why anybody would want to stop gang members from murdering each other, unless it was a problem of bodies in the street impeding the morning commute.
What a novel idea - reviewing laws to see if they are working as they were intended to! I wonder if anybody else anywhere else is considering doing that?
stay safe.
I saw a story some days ago where a nursing mother with a two-month-old baby got remanded to prison because the police found a bullet in her home. The whole family was taken away to jail. I really thought we had found a way to take the fangs out of our stupid gun laws, but the vicious predator, made in the U.S.A., is still with us.
In these modern, urbanized societies, we live in large groups of human beings. We have laws and regulations which guide and govern our individual conduct, and these laws and regulations exist so as to reduce the amount of friction among us; laws and regulations are supposed to facilitate us in our daily interactions with each other.
Some of these laws and regulations are relics from the time when Belize was British Honduras, which is to say, a colony of Great Britain. Other laws and regulations were products of our government’s need to cater to the priorities of the mighty United States of America, our new bosses. Belize’s police department is absolutely “gung-ho” about chasing down weed and weed smokers. Even our army is enlisted in this “anti-herbs” campaign. The Belize war against weed is in fulfillment of an agenda made in Washington, D. C.
The gun and ammunition laws were passed, our legislators said, to make it difficult for our gangs to obtain the guns and bullets they need to rob law-abiding citizens and to murder each other. These laws were first introduced about twenty years ago, and I think they have been amended once or twice. Today, all of us Belizeans know that these are laws which are abysmal failures, if we are to judge failure or success on the basis of the original intent of the laws.
What the guns laws have succeeded in doing is to intimidate and victimize innocent citizens who live in certain targeted neighborhoods. The laws are draconian, and they have contributed to the ever-growing sense in the Belizean people that we are not in control of our own destiny.
There's a fair amount of anti-American sentiment which may or may not be warranted. Let's all agree to skip over it and focus on the gun rights stuff.
They passed laws to prevent gangs from getting guns and bullets (sic) [cartridges] needed to rob law-abiding citizens. Seems they, like most other politicians, forgot that criminals, by definition, do not obey the laws. I'm not going to get into why anybody would want to stop gang members from murdering each other, unless it was a problem of bodies in the street impeding the morning commute.
Today, all of us Belizeans know that these are laws which are abysmal failures, if we are to judge failure or success on the basis of the original intent of the laws.
What a novel idea - reviewing laws to see if they are working as they were intended to! I wonder if anybody else anywhere else is considering doing that?
stay safe.