3 PB members propose "gunless society"

[sharkey360]

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An informative video to watch!

Gun control is simply flawed and causes more harm than good.

YouTube - Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime

Gunless society = pathetic.

[peewee_toot]

lisud jd kaayu ni ma achieve... maglisud mn gani sila anang crime-less society...

[sharkey360]

We Filipinos can learn from this!

With New Gun Laws, Arizona Residents Find Increased Freedom, Protection - Yahoo! News

[sharkey360]

In Canada, gun control advocates persecuted gun owners as seen in this video.

YouTube - Gun Control in Canada

Should Cebu follow this debacle?

[emailroy2002]

we have the right to carry weapon its our life...

we need to retaliate when fired upon and not wait for military or the sucky polic officer with beer belly to protect to weak..

[sharkey360]

This is an example of gun control advocates persecuting gun owners. It's also an example of how governments can harm people.

YouTube - Gun Control in Canada

Do we want this in Cebu?

[sharkey360]

I wonder if Cebu will ever have candidates for governor who all support gun ownership. The two candidates for Governor of South Carolina are pro-gun.

Haley, Sheheen back gun ownership | The Augusta Chronicle

[peewee_toot]

^^hehehe. paytera ana oi. responsibility is the keyword ra jd..

[sharkey360]

Local columnist writes:

I WRITE this piece on the day, two years shy of four decades ago, former presi
dent Marcos declared martial law over the Philippines.

It marked close to a decade of military rule, the closure of a critical media and massive corruption, nepotism, despotism and political repression.

This piece comes out three days before the government imposes a gun ban, its second
for 2010. The prohibition, like the previous one, is in line with an election. And like last year, it stands to reason that only licensed gun-owners will pay heed.

Why point this out? General Order 6, one of the first thing carried out under the Marcos dictatorship was a gun ban.

Speaking of gun bans, Katherine Embradura-Shaw, a long time acquaintance who is now based abroad, sent word of how her friend who used to be the Sangguniang Kabataan Federation representative to the municipal council in Tubigon, Bohol, died recently, following an ambush

“I blame it on the casual approach in carrying weapons,” she said.

I agree. Some blame should be heaped on how the subject of weapons carry is
approached, though I would not be simplistic about it.

Guns are just so common-place these days and the government’s response to crime–the imposition of gun bans—targets lawful gun-owners like myself more than criminals and, as a result, leave everyone vulnerable.

The approach simply does not deal with the source of these illegal firearms –the backyard manufacturers who work based on the need to eke out a livelihood, and the gun smugglers who, because of the logistics involved in the trans-national crime, can only be well-connected businessmen who, in most cases, have already bought police protection.

I am sorry that somebody has fallen victim to a murder. Heavens forbid but the next
victim might be somebody close to home.

But peace and order cannot be blamed on one subject alone even if it is as
controversial as guns. The subject of peace and order is complex and it would be a
grievous error to deal with it naively and say there shouldn’t be guns.

To tackle that subject, we have to take into account economics and serious enforcement of existing laws, not draft thinly-thought-out new ones just for the sake of giving the impression that we are doing something.

Just as bad is to call in a ban and pretend that crime will just miraculously disappear.

LIBERTY. Journalists all over Cebu set aside institutional rivalries last Sunday and
paraded from City Hall to the Capitol to celebrate press freedom, something we lost during martial law.

Some media organizations came to the early-morning walk with more than just the intent of having fun. They used the event to call attention to prevailing issues like media killings.

And as the journalists assembled, more than 200 shooters coming from different gun clubs in the Visayas and parts of Mindanao gathered in a clearing that boarders Cebu City and Mandaue.

The coming together, said Lowell Belarmino, Assistant Area Coordinator of the Philippine Practical Shooting Association (PPSA), was to show solidarity and perhaps even defiance of the gun ban that begins Friday midnight.

The athletes, coming in a number unprecedented for a non-sanctioned shooting activity, took part in 2nd Oycom Anniversary Shoot hosted by the NS Shooting Range in Tawason.

More seasoned athletes, many coming from other provinces, also arrived.

Mark Ang and Rowgun Fausto of Dumaguete clinched the top two spots in the Production Division while Louis Young of Dipolog landed fifth. Howell Sia of Team Bayawan won 2nd place in the Production Division’s junior category while Jay Yulo of Calbayog City landed third in the junior’s event of the Open Division.

Shooters from Cebu-based gun clubs also came in full strength. Front Sight Gun Club from Minglanilla fielded a squad which did not come home empty handed. William Torrefiel walked away with the champion’s trophy for the Revolver Division.

Other Cebu-based shooters topped the other events and the full results are available at Obet Yance (OYcom) Shooters' Range on the Net.

Rama: Martial law, the gun ban and the press week | Sun.Star Network Online

[slyder10]

It's actually simple! if the govt. can promise ZERO CRIME! then i'll stop carrying my gun. simple dba?! if there's no crime, why carry a gun at all. so if the govt. says that it is impossible for a country to have a zero crime rate, then it's also impossible for men to give up their right to carry their guns....SIMPLE!!