PAN Senator Touts the U.S. Second Amendment 'Right to Bear Arms' in Mexico Gary J. Hale - Baker Institute
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Mexico Considers New Gun Laws (wochit News)

On October 6, 2016, Mexican Senator Jorge Luis Preciado of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) published a policy recommendation in the Senate Gazette to amend Article 10 of the Mexican Constitution to emulate the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, allowing Mexico citizens to carry handguns for personal protection in their homes, vehicles and businesses.

Preciado argues that the natural right to possess arms as a means of self-defense is affirmed in the Second Amendment, which states that “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Preciado stated that Mexicans, too, “have the right to legitimate self-defense, and if a criminal enters my house or my business, he should at least know that on the other side there could be someone that has a weapon with which to respond … because we have organized groups that are completely armed and we have a society that is in a complete state of defenselessness.”

Notwithstanding current Mexican laws that prohibit the possession of most firearms, the majority of which are considered “strictly for the use of armed forces,” Preciado recommended that the Mexican Federal Firearms and Explosives Law be amended to establish that a business or vehicle should both be considered extensions of a person’s private residence — and therefore private citizens should be allowed to legitimately defend them.

Crime has run amok in Mexico, and the government’s inability to maintain law and order in its municipalities and states has exasperated ordinary Mexicans to the extent that many citizens groups have begun to take public safety matters into their own hands.

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Related: Mexico Considers New Gun Laws to Arm Its Citizens Against Violent Crime (Fusion)

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