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Some Mexican citizens are realizing that only allowing the police, soldiers and drug cartels to have guns....might not be healthy for the unarmed citizens who get in the way of the police, soldiers and drug cartels....
CPRC testifies before Mexican Senate and House Constitution Committees on Reforming Mexican Gun Laws: 50 minute statement Covered Live by Country's two Largest Television Networks and Mexican Equivalent of C-SPAN - Crime Prevention Research Center
Lott’s testimony was discussed by the Mexican press in dozens of news stories. It received thorough coverage in major national newspapers such as Milenio, El Universal, and Excelsior and about 95 news outlets in the first 24 hours after the event.
Senator Jorge Luis Preciado convened the forum to consider the effects of reforming the 1972 Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives, which set in place many strict gun control measures. Homicides had been falling from 1960 to 1972, but began to rise just as the 1972 law took effect. Preciado is seeking to gain insight by looking internationally at the effects of gun control. He is advancing initiatives to allow guns not only in homes, but in vehicles and businesses.
Gun control advocates argue that all Mexico needs is better police training and ending corruption. The corruption problem may be particularly difficult to solve, but Lott pointed out that even if these problems can be solved, police officers simply can’t be there all the time to stop crimes. He testified that even though the US doesn’t have these problems like Mexico, U.S. police officers understand that they still virtually always arrive on the crime scene after the crime has occurred and they thus understand the importance of private gun ownership.
CPRC testifies before Mexican Senate and House Constitution Committees on Reforming Mexican Gun Laws: 50 minute statement Covered Live by Country's two Largest Television Networks and Mexican Equivalent of C-SPAN - Crime Prevention Research Center
Lott’s testimony was discussed by the Mexican press in dozens of news stories. It received thorough coverage in major national newspapers such as Milenio, El Universal, and Excelsior and about 95 news outlets in the first 24 hours after the event.
Senator Jorge Luis Preciado convened the forum to consider the effects of reforming the 1972 Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives, which set in place many strict gun control measures. Homicides had been falling from 1960 to 1972, but began to rise just as the 1972 law took effect. Preciado is seeking to gain insight by looking internationally at the effects of gun control. He is advancing initiatives to allow guns not only in homes, but in vehicles and businesses.
Gun control advocates argue that all Mexico needs is better police training and ending corruption. The corruption problem may be particularly difficult to solve, but Lott pointed out that even if these problems can be solved, police officers simply can’t be there all the time to stop crimes. He testified that even though the US doesn’t have these problems like Mexico, U.S. police officers understand that they still virtually always arrive on the crime scene after the crime has occurred and they thus understand the importance of private gun ownership.
