Gun Control?

Heh.

While noting the obvious plague of criminality in the country, President Benigno Aquino III on Saturday said a total gun ban does not appear to be the solution. In his speech at the 20th anniversary of the Movement for the Restoration of Peace and Order (MRPO) in Manila, Aquino said, "While it is important for all to acknowledge that great strides have been made in suppressing criminality in our country, I will also be the first to admit that much work remains to be done.

This is from someone whose father was killed by a gun and who himself was shot during his mother's administration.

A short kerfuffle about banning guns came out almost in lockstep with the Obama campaign in the US, because one child died from either an amok or a gun shot in the air during New Years celebrations.

Actually, there are strict gun control laws here, and checkpoints that are strictly enforced in the election season. So when the bodyguards of the two governor's candidates had a shoot out here a couple years ago, well, that was NE election season as usual...and the laws didn't help our nephew, killed in the cross fire when the mayor's hit men went after his opposition candidate...(they mayor "disappeared" when they revoked his bail, and now his daughter is running for mayor).

as for gun crimes: well, maybe we need gun control for the cops: after all, the last major massacre here of innocents was an ex police chief who killed a bunch of Chinese tourists.

from the headlines:
NBI agent ‘accidentally’ shot inside NBI HQ in Manila 
 and then there is a big scandal about an environmentalist shot at a check point:
 so now they are checking what really happened: from today's news:

The 13 men, some of them lawmen and an environmentalist, were killed in what Quezon police claimed to be an encounter in Atimonan last Sunday.

Quezon police officials initially said the 13 were members of a group linked to gun-for-hire activities.

However, an investigation of the incident is now ongoing amid allegations that what happened was a summary execution.

Apparently PNoy is taking no chances: He is asking for a waiver so he can concealed carry a gun during the "gun free" time that precedes elections.
Hmm..wonder if our nephew (who took after his father and Lolo) would have stopped the massacre that killed him if he had been permitted concealed carry gun...