TIENE RAZON!!! FREDDY PA PRESIDENTE!!!

Freddy you're clueless not once did you mention the lack of education!


As more and more low-income families move into neighborhoods that once catered to the middle or upper class, one must be on the lookout for his own personal safety and report any criminal activity going on in their surroundings. Crime is everywhere in these neighborhoods where kids find too much time on their hands after school hours or after the school year lets out.

What also contributes to the crime rate in such places? Is it just the lack of money for low income families? Sometimes, crime can be attributed to the lack of education on the part of the perpetrator or their families.

It is a statistical fact that the crime rate is inversely proportional to the education level of the culprit. Kids who grow up in families that do not stress the importance of getting an education are more likely to be living out on the streets, doing drugs, joining gangs, or ending up in prison.

Sometimes parents who raise such kids were raised in similar conditions when they were youngsters. Nothing has changed. An education should be foremost on parents' minds when rearing their kids. In fact, an education is the key out of poverty. As the old saying goes, "The way out of the gutter is with a book.

yumnuk few people are more educated than bankers, and the aggregate crimes of delinquentes pale in comparison to what the bankers have done. Also people were always poor in DR but in the past I don't remember so many people being so anxious about crime. Statistics are blinding you, you fail to see the forest for the trees.

In a nation with a history of totalitarian dictatorship I wouldn't dare to have a family without protection.

Manhattanite, I concur with your assessment in regards to the bankers...
BTW I have no problems with gun ownership.

freddy makes sense wilton para prez, Freddy vice prez

About gun ownership, I don't know what to think yumnuk, because, if something, I'd say that dominican society is EXTREMELY well-armed to the teeth, so it would not hurt a little if some regulation program were to be put on foot, especially with the phenomenon of stray bullets (balas perdidas) claimming so many valuables lives on a monthly basis.

Lautaro, I am not a gun fanatic. However Guns are very necessary Especially if you live in a rural area. There are even towns that don't have a police force. The bottom line is this. IF you are attacked by someone with a weapon regardless if they got it legally or illegally the only way to stop them from killing you is to shoot them before they shoot you. Its a lousy choice but its much better than being dead.


Regulation program have Failed. The places in the USA that have the highest crime rates are the places guns are banned. California, New York City, Washington D.C., etc...

The right to bear arms in a responsible manner is a right that the citizens have to protect themselves as well as their property and for sporting use in a civilized society.
This arbitrary decree to temporarily ban by someone who has track record of intolerance and trying to legislate from his desk is totally unacceptable and irritates rights of law abiding citizens that have followed all the strict guidelines for carrying arms in the Dominican Republic.
This most poor thought decree also prohibits the off duty military and police to carry their weapon when they are not doing "official service" and in fact endangers their lives from criminals looking for any opportunity to "get even" with their previous captors.
In the USA, legal permit holders that are authorized to carry weapons can do so with some restrictions that apply, for example the weapons they carry have to be CONCEALED that means that they CAN NOT be visible, in other words you can not flaunt to others that you are carrying a weapon.
Also they have other restrictions like you can not enter a bank with a concealed weapon or a bar or night club either.
What we we have to legislate is against EXHIBITIONISM or public display of weapons, that is what most people object to and should be regulated by law in congress not spur of the moment decrees.
It is about time a new face in Interior and Police is named, due to the fact that this present office holder has been a constant cause of discord and population unrest by his comic and baseless decrees that just cause friction and alarm on a daily basis in the Dominican population.
Furthermore this is just "the first step" towards a total civilian disarmament ban plan that is in the works according to spoken words of another crusader pro ban of civilian gun ownership the Procurador General of the DR in the radio program "El Gobierno de la mañana".
So fasten your seat belts, there is more in store for unsuspecting citizens that own guns, the present government aim is to take us back to Trujillo's time when only the chosen few officials and military
had the right to bear arms and even so with very tight controls of ammunition. A typical police state.

Clueless is the best description I can come up with when I read your postings.

An armed populace is the best defence against criminal activity.

In the US the violent crime rate plumeted when states starting allowing law abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons. Criminals are cowards. Show no fear and they go running.