AZMEX EXTRA 28-11-16

AZMEX EXTRA 28 NOV 2016

Note: From 2016. The same bogus arguments we faced in AZ many years ago. We have to ask how is it that "Hispanics", "Latinos", Mexican-Americans, and Arizonans in general, can safely and responsibly carry firearms in AZ, but not in Mexico? Currently 295,000 Concealed Weapon permits active in AZ.
Gracias


"Shoot" controversy: Allow or not to carry guns?

"We have campaigns of de-mystification, war toy, Citizen Shield to prevent, plus extra curricular matters that we are going to implement together with the Secretary of Education and Health," he said. Photo: ElImparcial Newsroom

By: Eliana Alvarado | 11/28/2016 7:42

http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Sonora/28112016/1153506-Dispara-controversia-Permitir-o-no-portar-armas-de-fuego.html

HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)

While some citizens are in agreement with the initiative raised at the federal level to allow the carrying of weapons outside the homes, authorities and specialists warn of an increase in violence from this modification of the laws.

On November 1, PAN Senator Jorge Luis Preciado ratified his proposal presented on October 6th on some amendments to the Firearms and Explosives Law so that people can carry these devices and thus counteract a possible attack.

According to some experts consulted, the idea of ​​legalizing arms in citizenship for use in sites such as businesses and vehicles, if only in self-defense, can be considered a setback in public safety.

In contrast, in a survey carried out in the state capital, several people gave their approval to the initiative, with crime as the main argument to allow the extension of firearms beyond homes.

In favor of the proposal.

Also the Mexican Association of Users of Firearms (Amauf A.C.), a recently created citizen project, is in favor of making this option available to the citizenship in the face of insecurity.

For Arturo Ruiz Salguero, representative of this group in Sonora, the stigma that weighs on the use of arms in citizens is due more to ignorance.

In favor of possessing weapons to protect himself is shown Professor Gabriel Núñez Kosterlitzky, resident of the Pimentel colony who exposed his position after the case of a neighbor who was murdered in his home by an assailant.

He explained that Article 10 of the Mexican Constitution indicates the right of the inhabitants to own weapons in their home to protect themselves.

According to a 2014 report from the Center for Social Studies and Public Opinion of the Chamber of Deputies, it is estimated that 85% of Mexico's 15 million arms are illegal.

In disagreement

Germán Palafox Moyers, counselor of the Observatory Citizen of Coexistence and Security of the State of Sonora, considered the proposal unfeasible because it would only generate an increase in violence in the streets of the country.

"From our point of view we do not agree that the use of weapons in Mexican families is encouraged and regulated ... violence has other origins, has other factors, is generated and measured by other variables," he said.

For Lorenzo Ramos Felix, a constitutional lawyer, to approve this initiative would be to step back and even imply not only the amendment to a law, but the need to issue a new legal framework in accordance with the requirements.

He pointed out that to have legislation with these characteristics would also require protocols and training to shoot, because the chances that the shot is wrong when you are in a situation of risk are very high.

Neither the presence of the Army in the streets nor the armed population, argued the lawyer, are fundamental solutions to the problem of insecurity, the result of a rebase in the police corporations.

Jorge Pesqueira Leal, a lawyer specializing in public security and criminology, stated that a discussion on this initiative is not even relevant at this time because the results of the New Criminal Justice System must first be analyzed.

It is also a proposal not viable for implementation because, said Pesqueira Leal, the character and culture of the Mexican make it unlikely to react cognitively to a situation of stress.

State Public Security Secretary Adolfo García Morales said he was in complete disagreement with the federal law proposal because "violence generates more violence."

He said that work is being done on prevention through programs in schools and public places, and the elements of the State Police of Public Security apply filters for checking and carrying weapons.

"We have campaigns of demolition of toy weapons, Citizen Shield to prevent, plus extra curricular matters that we are going to implement together with the Secretary of Education and Health," he said.

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