New law for gun crime needed


IT was not difficult to foresee and expect that the crime situation and gang violence in our country would experience drastic changes after the Emergency Ordinance (EO) 1969 was repealed. This has to do with the subculture practised by gun dealers and the demographic shift of gangsters!

In other words, the floodgate for easily acquiring illegal firearms was opened!

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