Crime Wave, Vigilantism Prompt Calls for Citizens to be Armed in Their Cars and Businesses Mark Browne - CNSNews.com
go to original November 23, 2016

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A lawmaker’s proposal to loosen gun laws so Mexican citizens can arm themselves in their cars and at their businesses faces stiff opposition here despite record numbers of gun homicides and a surge in public transit robberies that has provoked a vengeful backlash by armed vigilantes.

Residents of Naucalpan, a city located just northwest of Mexico City, are living in a state of “psychosis,” and “terror,” due to a wave of murders, kidnappings and robberies in recent months, according to the Mexico City daily El Universal.

Armed assaults on public transit have provoked a deadly response by armed vigilantes riding buses, as well as calls by passengers for more vigilantism, the newspaper said.

Recent car hijackings and armed assaults of drivers stuck in traffic in broad daylight on major thoroughfares in Mexico City have also received widespread publicity.

Against that background, Senator Jorge Luis Preciado has proposed to modify Mexico’s Constitution so citizens can carry guns inside their cars and at their businesses.

The right to bear arms was inserted into the Constitution in 1857 partly influenced by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, according to a press release issued by the senator’s center-right opposition party, PAN.

But Article 10 of the Mexican Constitution doesn’t allow legally armed citizens to take their guns outside their homes.

Preciado wants to modify the article so citizens can carry inside their cars and business owners can have a gun at their workplace.

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