Senator Luis Preciado Has a Solution to Fighting Crime in Mexico: Arm Citizens APP
go to original November 3, 2016

Inside Mexico's only gun store (Tech Insider)

A Mexican senator has a radical and controversial plan to combat rising violence in his country: Let citizens legally arm themselves in their cars and businesses.

Senator Jorge Luis Preciado’s push for wider access to guns has faced resistance in a country where drug cartels have wreaked havoc with illegally-obtained assault rifles. Even his conservative National Action Party has refused to endorse his proposal.

Undeterred, Preciado has launched a national campaign to collect 120,000 signatures, which would force Congress to look at the constitutional amendment.

The lawmaker seeks to seize on Mexicans’ anger and frustration at the dismal state of justice in a country where only one percent of crimes are punished, according to an impunity study by University of the Americas Puebla Mexico is “a failed state in terms of security. We aren’t asking (the authorities) to defend us. We are telling them, ‘Let us defend ourselves,’ Preciado told AFP in an interview in the Senate.

While the law allows Mexicans to possess small-caliber weapons at home for protection, Preciado said it only benefits “a very select group, including soldiers, businessmen, politicians.

See the original at PakObserver

Related: Civil Society Group Expresses Opposition to Proposal by PAN Senator to Relax Gun Control (The News)

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