Senator Pimentel Calls for Stricter Gun Control |
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Columns - This Week With Nene Pimentel | |||
Monday, 19 May 2008 12:40 | |||
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) today reiterated
the urgency of stricter gun control as one of the measures to curb criminality. He prodded
Congress to approve immediately the imposition of stiffer penalties for
violators of the gun ban in the wake of the murder of eight bank employees and
a customer in the robbery of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. in Cabuyao,
Laguna, and the massacre of eight persons by a farm caretaker in Calamba City. He rejected a move by some lawmakers for the revival of the death penalty for
heinous crimes. Senator Pimentel said guns have been used in slaying cases that arose out of the slightest perceived provocation, traffic altercation, parking-space scuffle, gambling dispute or even a conversation gone sour. Without a valid permit to carry firearms, the bill prohibits any person from
carrying the same even if licensed anywhere outside of his residence,
military/police camp or station and sports facility. The Pimentel
bill provides that firearms shall be carried only outside of one’s residence by
those directly and primarily engaged in military, police and law-enforcement
functions, and for those specifically authorized under this legislation.It provides that any police or military officer who holds a firearm shall carry
his gun only when he is in full uniform of his position or rank in the
military, police or law-enforcement agency; or he is in actual performance of
official duty and assignment directly related to his job.
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