Dear Editor,
Every year I have seen pictures of guns seized by the police in the newspapers. In last Thursday's issue what appears to be a military assault rifle is shown. The accompanying stories almost always repeat the phrase, "No arrest was made in connection with yesterday's seizure." Really?
Such weapons are issued by a government, and hence traceable. Similarly, the tracing of the guns recovered by the police should reveal the sources and finite number of routes by which the vast arsenal of illegal guns are imported into Jamaica.
The statement "an arrest was made in connection with this seizure" should become more common; making Jamaica safer for us all.
Howard Chin
hmc14 @cwjamaica.com
Guns without owners
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Every year I have seen pictures of guns seized by the police in the newspapers. In last Thursday's issue what appears to be a military assault rifle is shown. The accompanying stories almost always repeat the phrase, "No arrest was made in connection with yesterday's seizure." Really?
Such weapons are issued by a government, and hence traceable. Similarly, the tracing of the guns recovered by the police should reveal the sources and finite number of routes by which the vast arsenal of illegal guns are imported into Jamaica.
The statement "an arrest was made in connection with this seizure" should become more common; making Jamaica safer for us all.
Howard Chin
hmc14 @cwjamaica.com
Guns without owners
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