Guns, guns, and more guns....

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LETTER OF THE DAY - Guns untouchable a grave concern
published: Friday | June 20, 2008

The Editor Sir:

In your recent publications, your headlines have given the nation more than cause to worry. The editorial of Wednesday, June 18, has added to the current wave of fear bordering on panic. I refer to the recent truce brokered between warring factions in the August Town community.

Negotiator Horace Levy is to be commended for his initiative. There is, however, grave concern that he has acknowledged the fact that our security forces are incapable of taking the guns off the streets.

Mr Levy says that, even though some cooling off has been brokered, these factions reserved the right to keep their various weapons of destruction and murder. Are these weapons legally registered, and are the holders licensed to use them?

Afraid for our future existence

<span style="color: #660000"><span style="font-weight: bold">This is where the country must be afraid for our future existence. Here we have the army and police knowing that these weapons are in these communities. <span style="font-size: 14pt">They know who have them yet they seem incapable of ridding the communities of this menace.</span></span>
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Is it time for the Government and Opposition to think of an outside force to save this country? We have been flirting with the idea of combining the security forces while the country is fast descending into chaos. Are you all living in Jamaica? Putting new faces into positions is nice, but we need decisive action now.

We have been avoiding the application of the death penalty, to our peril. We worry about the rights of the offenders, but what about the rights of the offended? From certain quarters, there are loud cries for justice for people who maim and murder. <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="color: #660000">What about justice for their victims?</span></span></span> There must be harsh sanctions, applied now, for the heinous crimes committed against our citizens.

Penalties

I have grown up in this country at a time when citizens expressed fear of being hanged for murder or fear of the cat-o'-nine. These were the penalties that one paid for breaking certain laws. The citizens are calling for serious sanctions to be imposed for serious crimes. We all cannot run away. There are some of us who do not have dual citizenship to abandon ship at anytime.

It is time for citizens of Jamaica to take to the streets to demand action to stem the scourge of murder in Jamaica, land we love. Letters to the Editor and wailing on talk shows simply will no longer do.

I am, etc,

A. GUY MORRIS

Duncans Post Office

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Re: Guns, guns, and more guns....

<span style="color: #660000">As I said before, the garrison communities built by the polydreamers, who use them for their support-base, turning a blind-eye to the criminals they harbour, and allowing those communities to become divided, and self-destructive.
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">What is worse, we will sit down and listen to speeches about crime from the same polydreamers, as if they had no connections, however remotely, with crime.</span></span>
The criminals are protected, and the police know who they are, it's just that this society has gone to a point where criminals are now part of the social landscape, almost unmovable, except for their victims who have to flee, when violence breaks out. It's probably part of the plan, by the man, to 'mash-up' Jamaica, and force out non-criminal people, who polydreamers can't use, in their ruthless, selfish, and short-sighted ambitions.</span>

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mi ready fi di war...

it's where we're headed

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LOL.. the same Horace Levy of the so-called Peace Management Intuitive that claimed that the JLP Garrisons were stocking up guns for the last General Elections. I guess he was just worried about what colour shirt had the guns not the guns themselves.