Santo Domingo East.- Santo Domingo province prosecutor Perfecto Acosta revealed Sunday that the Justice Ministry proposed plan to disarm the population nationwide will start in early 2011.
He suggested an amendment to Law 36 on the Bearing and Possession of Weapons, to allow only possession to start the disarmament and to specify where the confiscated guns are to be disposed.
He said that these weapons should be subjected to smelting or some form of incineration, to prevent a recurrence to return to foreign hands, following the seizure, interviewed by journalist Federico Mendez on Santo Domingo TV,
Acosta said another alternative is to dump them at sea, as done in Puerto Rico, in places where they cannot be salvaged, but noted that he prefers melting them.
He said the use of illegal guns needs to be strongly tackled, because in his view it’s people which are being killed with them. "We’ve been in favor of a general disarmament in the country, but only in a gradual manner.”
Written by: BASTA, 20 Dec 2010 11:56 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
you son of a perra. Knife this idiot
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
There's going to be a price hike on the black market if they do that.
One goof after another.
Written by: BASTA, 20 Dec 2010 12:07 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Australian Gun Law Update
Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts....
From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under.
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
Written by: BASTA, 20 Dec 2010 12:08 PM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
The first year results are now in:
Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent,
Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent;
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed ++++ upThere has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.
Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in 'successfully ridding Australian society of guns....' You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information.
Written by: Rainman, 20 Dec 2010 12:19 PM
From: United States
I can see many of this guns confiscated in the morning and resold by the police to the criminals in the afternoon only to be used again to commit crimes in the evening .
I love the guys face, is like he just figured out something that no other man knows lol the eureka moment
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
Look at this guys suit, an educated man would have gotten one that fits and this shlep is making a decision on disarming the public.
A true poll is needed, disarm the public and the crooks will run freely. Not everyone has a public payed servant acting as a bodygaurd. Until the government is cleaned up itself and reconizes that corruption is a problem, its not recommended to disarm.
Hold on to your PISTOLAS, DR , we're going to need them.
Written by: matador, 20 Dec 2010 12:26 PM
From: United States, www.brugal-ron.com/home.php
Well this seem like a good thing for the safelty of all Dominicans citizens and visitor. As long as they just gonna confiscated illegal weapons from the people on the street commiting murder and assault.
From: United States
This is an attempt to disarm everybody, Law abiding and non-law abiding citizens so they can control any dissent in the country.
Written by: telemeco, 20 Dec 2010 12:31 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Monte Plata
someone need to steel or rather commendier this guy jeepeta fast
From: United States
Waste of time. Corrupt police and other officials will resell the guns taken from honest citizens to criminals. Then the criminals will all have guns and honest citizens will need illegal guns to protect themselves making themselves criminals as well.
We keep firearms in the home and our business and will never surrender them.
Written by: riosm, 20 Dec 2010 1:47 PM
From: United States
Wow ! I already feel safer by his tough words.......another prosecutor with too much time on his hands. Why not really make a name for himself by starting to inforce the laws already on the books to the letter of the law regarding possesion of stolen and black market firearms.
I'm reminded...."An armed society is a polite society", "a safe society is one where the criminals don't know who's armed and would face armed resistence from their victims" and my favorites "if guns were outlawed only outlaws would have guns" and "fear a gov. that fears its citizens".
Sounds like he needs a refresher course on the meaning of the words LEGAL vs. ILLEGAL ?
From: Dominican Republic
We should also ban knifes, many robberies on street are done with knifes. I've been mugged twice with knifes and a good percent of friends that have been mugged were also with knifes.
From: Dominican Republic
Great...more stops along the highway for the same old stuff. I drive a few times a week to La Romana. I can be as little as one hour between the first checkpoint ( no one officially dressed or looking the part) and when I return to the checkpoint.
Guess what...I get the same treatment every time.....BOTH WAYS!!!!
Any guns? No.
Any weapons...no.
OK...let me see your ownership, insurance and license. No problem.
A long stare....look at the documents one more time. Oh...my license does not match the ownership...my wife's name. Now we have a problem...I cannot drive someones car apparently...even with my wife in the back seat. What a pile of stupidity.
I watch these street bandits...never do they pull over P.O.S cars...only the ones that still have the same colour on every panel and working lights and a windshield.
I really cannot accept the government's word, when in fact all this is is a shakedown of expats living on the island. See it way too often.
Written by: LuiGy, 20 Dec 2010 3:22 PM
From: United States
Written by: riosm, 20 Dec 2010 3:46 PM
From: United States
Martingarata,
So true.....just think had the robbers thought you were armed they would of looked for another victim.
PuntacanaMike,
You nailed it.....I've driven many times down that road from Santo Domingo to La Romana, one should see their reaction on a rented car they think your rich.
LuiGy,
Thank you for your posting. Oh ! you forgot to mention Cuba too, only heaven knows what the common average Cuban would do if they were allowed to legally carry arms.
I wonder how many armed guards 24/7 this prosecutor has from his home to work place and back plus vacation, local shopping, walks with Family or if he's heavly armed himself to include a vest ?
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
Rainman ..you are 100% correct ..a quick profitable business for the police ..
PC Mike Like you, I use the road from the capital to Bayahibe very often and I am stopped on average 3 times ..firstly on the corner east of San Pedro ,,either just short of la Romana or just inside la Romana and around the Casa de Campo entry . I have had a variety of experiences now from a direct request for a regalo to ludicrous questions as to the state of my health ..and from a mere handshake to a complete search . I have had them place their rifles on the window frame of the car to actually putting the rifle on the bonnet as they looked at my papers ..and I am sure one officer was no more than 17 or 18 .
I never know what to expect next
Written by: riosm, 20 Dec 2010 4:27 PM
From: United States
LOL and friends and family wonder why I carry extra mongos when I travel.
All take extra care "Tis the season" for robbing, stealing and muggin.
Written by: Perez, 20 Dec 2010 4:47 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Oh yea go ahead disarm the people! let them be at the Mercy of thugs, and corrupt police officers! It can't get better than this.......
From: United States, Nyc, NY
LuiGy,Thats absolutely right... Their also trying to do the same thing here in the US.. We all know who's behind this..
From: United States, Nyc, NY
the Obama administration took its first major step in a plan to ban all firearms in the United States. The Obama administration intends to force gun control and a complete ban on all weapons for US citizens through the signing of international treaties with foreign nations. By signing international treaties on gun control, the Obama administration can use the US State Department to bypass the normal legislative process in Congress. Once the US Government signs these international treaties, all US citizens will be subject to those gun laws created by foreign governments. These are laws that have been developed and promoted by organizations such as the United Nations and individuals such as George Soros and Michael Bloomberg. The laws are designed and intended to lead to the complete ban and confiscation of all firearms.
From: United States, Nyc, NY
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Written by: riosm, 20 Dec 2010 6:56 PM
From: United States
XxMolotovCocktailxX,
It's really called people control not gun control.
From: United States, Nyc, NY
riosm , You got that right...
Written by: Rainman, 20 Dec 2010 8:43 PM
From: United States
I just cant stop laughing at this guys expression lol
Written by: Badinage, 20 Dec 2010 8:58 PM
From: United States
Molon labe.
Written by: Pepe32, 20 Dec 2010 9:07 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Just disarming the population so their unification schemes don't elicit a violent response !
Written by: riosm, 20 Dec 2010 9:20 PM
From: United States
The prosecutor sounds like he's never been robbed or a victim of a street crime before, if the prosecutor, one of his family members or loved ones were robbed at gun / knife point and at the mercy of an armed street thug / tigre maybe he'll see the light and change his mind.
All should see Luigy's post including that prosecutor.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?WwQvKKOyr5U
The late Freddy Beras Gocio said it best....God we need more men like him who stand up.
I say strip the prosecutor of his personal firearm and 24/7 armed guards for life.
From: United States
why are we trying to cover the bad things? anybody owns a gun in dr! people shouldnt carry a gun outside their house,property... having a gun hanging like a cellphone its wrong! i only see this stupid things in dr, its wild wild west there! no guns,knife! zero tolerancia!
Written by: LuiGy, 21 Dec 2010 2:07 AM
From: United States
XxMolotovCocktailxX
that would absolutely never happen here. we Hispanics juts bend down so easily to government. most Hispanics here in US think owning a gun is absolutely illegal but its rather easy. i own a business in NYC and have my license and have a in home carry. i also have many guns in TX. I've talked to the real Americans here and lets see how easy it will be to take their guns away. if it wasn't for the brainwashing TV there would be a revolution overnight. everyone in US is fed up with politics. i was so fed up that i was thinking to abandon everything since im having the hardest time to sell and leave this shithole(US) but the problem is that DR is even a bigger shit hole, sad to say. but i think the rest of the world is basically doomed to this upcoming depression coming. just arm yourself and live off the land. buy a farm or something because believe it or not by next summer a barrel of oil will hit $200.
Written by: LuiGy, 21 Dec 2010 2:08 AM
From: United States
and im being conservative. i believe with the current treands of inflation i see it hitting $3-400 by next summer. we are living in dangerous times. history books are being written as we speak. and dont call me a loony do your own research!!!!
jarabacoa
you can open carry in Texas, well atleast in your property but you can open carry in new Arizona. i have a friend up there and he once picked me up with his gun hanging to the side of his pants without a problem. there's nothing wrong with open carry. im not looking tough im just looking like if you would to mug me i would put one in your brains!!!
From: United States, Nyc, NY
LuiGy, I agree that the american masses will never go along with this,but What makes you think the government wont have its way anyways?
From: United States, Nyc, NY
Infowars.com -->Pt.1 The Obama administration is attempting to use tactics and methods of gun control that will inflict major damage to our 2nd Amendment before US citizens even understand what has happened. Obama can appear before the public and tell them that he does not intend to pursue any legislation (in the United States) that will lead to new gun control laws, while cloaked in secrecy, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is committing the US to international treaties and foreign gun control laws. Does that mean Obama is telling the truth? What it means is that there will be no publicized gun control debates in the media or votes in Congress.
From: United States, Nyc, NY
Pt.2 We will wake up one morning and find that the United States has signed a treaty that prohibits firearm and ammunition manufacturers from selling to the public. We will wake up another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that prohibits any transfer of firearm ownership. And then, we will wake up yet another morning and find that the US has signed a treaty that requires US citizens to deliver any firearm they own to the local government collection and destruction center or face imprisonment.
This is not a joke nor a false warning. As sure as government health care will be forced on us by the Obama administration through whatever means necessary, so will gun control.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
The figures given by BASTA are false ,,they are simply propaganda figures from a disreputable gun lobby in Australia ..pity that he did not give his source .There are independent figures from several university studies that show that less than 5.5% of the population has guns ,more than 75 % of guns used in crimes are unregistered ,,the use of guns in suicides has fallen dramatically and all in all Australia has a very low level of violent crime
Written by: pelaut, 21 Dec 2010 9:03 AM
From: United States
Re: gun confiscation in DR. Does it have anything to do with the constitutional crisis that will come with a third term run by LF? Does "rule by decree" a la Chavez come next?
Germany, 1933.
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera
"the use of illegal guns needs to be strongly tackled, because in his view it’s people which are being killed with them"
That statement is the most illogical comment I have ever seen and just about sums up his level of intelligence.
Written by: Escott, 21 Dec 2010 5:00 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera and Sosua a 2 days a month for payday
In NY I have a license to carry a concealed weapon. Only can holster a gun on a belt while hunting. Here in the DR I have a license to carry a weapon but it doesn't say concealed so I can wear it wild west style like a cell phone.
Written by: Escott, 21 Dec 2010 5:02 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera and Sosua a 2 days a month for payday
In NY I have a license to carry a concealed weapon. Only can holster a gun on a belt while hunting. Here in the DR I have a license to carry a weapon but it doesn't say concealed so I can wear it wild west style like a cell phone.
Written by: Escott, 21 Dec 2010 5:02 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera and Sosua a 2 days a month for payday
Difference is I have to pay 5000 pesos a year or so to keep the license and in NY it is for my life as long as I don't get convicted of a felony.
From: Dominican Republic
@Pelaut
Hitler?
Written by: riosm, 21 Dec 2010 9:59 PM
From: United States
As the saying goes, to each it's own.......
I've rather be judged by 12 then be carried by 6.
I've rather have it and never need it, then need it and never have it.
Guns don't kill....people use guns too kill.
Good thing in the U.S having a drivers Lic. is a privlege....owning a gun is a 2nd Amendment Constitutional right....know thats real freedom.
Written by: LuiGy, 22 Dec 2010 2:59 AM
From: United States
XxMolotovCocktailxX
HAHA haven't you seen the news since Obama took office? Americans have been piling up on guns like if we were ready to fight Russia. there are well over 500 MILLION guns in America not counting the illegal ones. not the unlicensed ones the ones that entered illegally and the stolen automatics. Americans are well aware and now know that if government would ever try to disarm it smell like they're up too something. the government can say anything they want but are cops going to take orders? i talk to many cops and military men and they say they would never do such a thing. my friend who is a detective criticizes Bloomberg for making gun ownership so difficult. he says every house hold should have one, and he's not the only cop that thinks so.
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One goof after another.
Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts....
From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under.
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent,
Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent;
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed ++++ upThere has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.
Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in 'successfully ridding Australian society of guns....' You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information.
I love the guys face, is like he just figured out something that no other man knows lol the eureka moment
A true poll is needed, disarm the public and the crooks will run freely. Not everyone has a public payed servant acting as a bodygaurd. Until the government is cleaned up itself and reconizes that corruption is a problem, its not recommended to disarm.
Hold on to your PISTOLAS, DR , we're going to need them.
We keep firearms in the home and our business and will never surrender them.
I'm reminded...."An armed society is a polite society", "a safe society is one where the criminals don't know who's armed and would face armed resistence from their victims" and my favorites "if guns were outlawed only outlaws would have guns" and "fear a gov. that fears its citizens".
Sounds like he needs a refresher course on the meaning of the words LEGAL vs. ILLEGAL ?
Guess what...I get the same treatment every time.....BOTH WAYS!!!!
Any guns? No.
Any weapons...no.
OK...let me see your ownership, insurance and license. No problem.
A long stare....look at the documents one more time. Oh...my license does not match the ownership...my wife's name. Now we have a problem...I cannot drive someones car apparently...even with my wife in the back seat. What a pile of stupidity.
I watch these street bandits...never do they pull over P.O.S cars...only the ones that still have the same colour on every panel and working lights and a windshield.
I really cannot accept the government's word, when in fact all this is is a shakedown of expats living on the island. See it way too often.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwQvKK0yr5U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIa8SYVps-Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nf1OgV449g
http://www.davidstuff.com/opinion/guncontrol.htm
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lemieux1.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_ronning_011003_guncontrol.html
So true.....just think had the robbers thought you were armed they would of looked for another victim.
PuntacanaMike,
You nailed it.....I've driven many times down that road from Santo Domingo to La Romana, one should see their reaction on a rented car they think your rich.
LuiGy,
Thank you for your posting. Oh ! you forgot to mention Cuba too, only heaven knows what the common average Cuban would do if they were allowed to legally carry arms.
I wonder how many armed guards 24/7 this prosecutor has from his home to work place and back plus vacation, local shopping, walks with Family or if he's heavly armed himself to include a vest ?
PC Mike Like you, I use the road from the capital to Bayahibe very often and I am stopped on average 3 times ..firstly on the corner east of San Pedro ,,either just short of la Romana or just inside la Romana and around the Casa de Campo entry . I have had a variety of experiences now from a direct request for a regalo to ludicrous questions as to the state of my health ..and from a mere handshake to a complete search . I have had them place their rifles on the window frame of the car to actually putting the rifle on the bonnet as they looked at my papers ..and I am sure one officer was no more than 17 or 18 .
I never know what to expect next
All take extra care "Tis the season" for robbing, stealing and muggin.
It's really called people control not gun control.
All should see Luigy's post including that prosecutor.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?WwQvKKOyr5U
The late Freddy Beras Gocio said it best....God we need more men like him who stand up.
I say strip the prosecutor of his personal firearm and 24/7 armed guards for life.
that would absolutely never happen here. we Hispanics juts bend down so easily to government. most Hispanics here in US think owning a gun is absolutely illegal but its rather easy. i own a business in NYC and have my license and have a in home carry. i also have many guns in TX. I've talked to the real Americans here and lets see how easy it will be to take their guns away. if it wasn't for the brainwashing TV there would be a revolution overnight. everyone in US is fed up with politics. i was so fed up that i was thinking to abandon everything since im having the hardest time to sell and leave this shithole(US) but the problem is that DR is even a bigger shit hole, sad to say. but i think the rest of the world is basically doomed to this upcoming depression coming. just arm yourself and live off the land. buy a farm or something because believe it or not by next summer a barrel of oil will hit $200.
jarabacoa
you can open carry in Texas, well atleast in your property but you can open carry in new Arizona. i have a friend up there and he once picked me up with his gun hanging to the side of his pants without a problem. there's nothing wrong with open carry. im not looking tough im just looking like if you would to mug me i would put one in your brains!!!
This is not a joke nor a false warning. As sure as government health care will be forced on us by the Obama administration through whatever means necessary, so will gun control.
Germany, 1933.
That statement is the most illogical comment I have ever seen and just about sums up his level of intelligence.
Hitler?
I've rather be judged by 12 then be carried by 6.
I've rather have it and never need it, then need it and never have it.
Guns don't kill....people use guns too kill.
Good thing in the U.S having a drivers Lic. is a privlege....owning a gun is a 2nd Amendment Constitutional right....know thats real freedom.
HAHA haven't you seen the news since Obama took office? Americans have been piling up on guns like if we were ready to fight Russia. there are well over 500 MILLION guns in America not counting the illegal ones. not the unlicensed ones the ones that entered illegally and the stolen automatics. Americans are well aware and now know that if government would ever try to disarm it smell like they're up too something. the government can say anything they want but are cops going to take orders? i talk to many cops and military men and they say they would never do such a thing. my friend who is a detective criticizes Bloomberg for making gun ownership so difficult. he says every house hold should have one, and he's not the only cop that thinks so.