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It’s like the chicken and the egg: How can a society that fears for its life be convinced of the logic behind banning guns in public?
Even the Catholic Church leaders cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriquez and the bishop Agripino Nuñez scoffed at the Interior and Police Ministry’s effort to inject a semblance of civility into our ‘junglelized’ society.
But the resolution found its most recalcitrant opponents in the rice growers grouped in Fenarroz, whom, in apparent confusion, said they won’t turn in their guns, when the ban only penalizes carrying them in public, not keeping them at home or under lock in a vehicle.
Those of us fortunate enough to have lived in a country where the sight of a gun in someone’s waist is unheard of know that you have to start somewhere…and let’s hope the gun manufacturers and their Dominican affiliates aren’t staunch Catholics.
jorge.pineda@dominicantoday.com
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Ray, from London, UK
Why are Dominicans so violent?
I heard that on the North coast there was road rage where the Dominican got out of his car and shot a foreigner.
There is road rage in the US, but if you know the person who did it. They get arrested and put in jail.
The Dominican who did the shooting is well known and has shot other people. He is still driving his cab. This is shameful.
Why does a taxi need a gun? Is life not worth more than a few thousand pesos and a peice of crap car?
Out here in the wild wild west [L.A County] U.S.A kids have been known to shot each other for a pair sneakers, or wearing the wrong colors or wrong place wrong time......Here in good OL America we train kids to be violent at a young age threw Movies, Cartoons, Music, and video games. We reap what we sew.
CACIQUE,
As far as being ruled by England......First we'll be SUBJECTS not Citizens. Look around you how many weapons do you see in your Garage, Kitchen etc. etc.
Which really leaves just the last option, just give everyone guns and call it a day.