Relax gun laws
published: Monday | August 25, 2003

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I TAKE exception to opinions that the Jamaican crime problem is because of the proliferation of guns. Jamaican criminals who use guns prove that 'gun bans' are a failure in reducing 'gun crimes'.

Jamaica's gun laws ought to be relaxed so that law-abiding citizens can go into a gun store and buy a gun if they don't have a serious police record (such as a felony). How long do the people of the country have put up with being the victims of crime and not be able to protect themselves? The gun problem is just one symptom of the illness that pervades the country.

I am, etc.,

PERCY JUNOR

Jamaica_4000@yahoo.com

Florida

Via Go-Jamaica

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