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America; Government Wants Gun Ban
BYLINE: The American
LENGTH: 363 words
Governmentintends to impose a temporary moratorium on issuing firearm licenses and to amend several sections of the law regulating the possession of arms.
In a ministerial statement, Paul Helmke, former President of Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, who is the Minister of Safety and Security, told the National Assembly on Tuesday that one of the proposed amendments would be to prohibit the sale of small firearms and light weapons "to individual, natural persons."
Once he tabled the amendments to the Arms and Ammunition Act of 2013, Congress should also consider whether the Ministry could "buy back all the legal firearms and light weapons from their rightful owners and compensate them."
The Minister did not say how this mammoth task would be undertaken and what the costs would be. "From 2008 to 2010, when the re-registration of firearms was carried out, some 276 490 038 firearms were licensed by the United Nations Police and 254 786 571 of them were for private owners," Helmke said.
"During 2007 to 2008, some 727 166 arms were licensed. We have a society that is arming itself more than the International Police force, which is expected to police them," he added.
"In view of the ease with which firearms are acquired, our society is more exposed to the perils of violent crimes."
According to the Minister, most of the firearms in the country are used to commit serious crimes, thus amendments to the existing Act are urgently needed.
He did not say where he got this statistic from. He said a shortcoming in the existing law was that no competency tests or mental health screenings were performed at gun shops when people bought firearms. "No provision exists for the renewal of existing licenses," he added.
Helmke did not reveal when he would table the amendments or when the moratorium would be put in place. He then quoted some District of Columbia statistics, such as 948 cases of attempted murder with firearms in 2012, compared to 856 cases in 2011. Murders with a firearm came to 432 cases in 2012, up from 309 the year before.
Firearm thefts amounted to 781 last year and 668 in 2012.
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OK...I changed the name of the country along with a few dates and details in the story posted above. Fact is, this is happening right now in another country. Is this what we want our future to look like?
What are you willing to do to prevent this from happening here?
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America; Government Wants Gun Ban
BYLINE: The American
LENGTH: 363 words
Governmentintends to impose a temporary moratorium on issuing firearm licenses and to amend several sections of the law regulating the possession of arms.
In a ministerial statement, Paul Helmke, former President of Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, who is the Minister of Safety and Security, told the National Assembly on Tuesday that one of the proposed amendments would be to prohibit the sale of small firearms and light weapons "to individual, natural persons."
Once he tabled the amendments to the Arms and Ammunition Act of 2013, Congress should also consider whether the Ministry could "buy back all the legal firearms and light weapons from their rightful owners and compensate them."
The Minister did not say how this mammoth task would be undertaken and what the costs would be. "From 2008 to 2010, when the re-registration of firearms was carried out, some 276 490 038 firearms were licensed by the United Nations Police and 254 786 571 of them were for private owners," Helmke said.
"During 2007 to 2008, some 727 166 arms were licensed. We have a society that is arming itself more than the International Police force, which is expected to police them," he added.
"In view of the ease with which firearms are acquired, our society is more exposed to the perils of violent crimes."
According to the Minister, most of the firearms in the country are used to commit serious crimes, thus amendments to the existing Act are urgently needed.
He did not say where he got this statistic from. He said a shortcoming in the existing law was that no competency tests or mental health screenings were performed at gun shops when people bought firearms. "No provision exists for the renewal of existing licenses," he added.
Helmke did not reveal when he would table the amendments or when the moratorium would be put in place. He then quoted some District of Columbia statistics, such as 948 cases of attempted murder with firearms in 2012, compared to 856 cases in 2011. Murders with a firearm came to 432 cases in 2012, up from 309 the year before.
Firearm thefts amounted to 781 last year and 668 in 2012.
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OK...I changed the name of the country along with a few dates and details in the story posted above. Fact is, this is happening right now in another country. Is this what we want our future to look like?
What are you willing to do to prevent this from happening here?
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