‘Bahahaha, yeah, I think Biden has a lot more on his mind right now. And frankly the gall, because I don’t see CARICOM working hard to prevent their shores and ports from being a popular drug transshipment point’
By Alicia Chamely
BLAME high-powered assault weapons! Those guns are the devil! They are the root of all crime!
And blame the media! It’s the media that has everyone scared of crime!
Ahh, the blame game, TT’s leaders favorite pass time. Why admit any responsibility when you can find some other sucker to nail to a cross.
This week our Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley hosted some of his CARICOM buddies at the Caricom Regional Symposium: Violence as a Public Health Issue-the Crime Challenge (Seriously! No one could have found a shorter name?).
After some serious deliberation at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, sponsored by our tax dollars, the CARICOM dream team featuring Barbadian PM Mia Mottley, emerged with a breakthrough plan to solve the regions crime problem drumroll please… the solution to crime is ban high-powered assault weapons within the civilian population!!!
Be gracious peasants!
Erm? How? How does this help our spiraling crime rate? Do they think all those criminals with their illegally sourced assault weapons are going to think, “Hmm, well I better do as the law says and turn in my weapons, I better cancel that order I have for that crate of AK47s.”
I am not too sure if the heads of CARICOM are aware, but the vast majority of violent gun related crime is not being carried out by licensed weapon holders.
Now, I am not saying there aren’t some morally bankrupt individuals who allegedly rent or loan out their legal firearms, but in general I don’t get the impression that CARICOM understood the assignment.
Personally, I am not a fan of guns, but if you are, then good on you. Not sure why you would want a high-powered assault rifle, but different strokes for different folks I suppose.
Like many levelheaded individuals, I am struggling to see how this will curb crime. Oh wait, they are going to write to Uncle Joe Biden, President of the U-S-A, and urge him to help prevent these weapons from being shipped here.
Bahahaha, yeah, I think Biden has a lot more on his mind right now. And frankly the gall, because I don’t see CARICOM working hard to prevent their shores and ports from being a popular drug transshipment point.
‘Bredren, people don’t need the media to instill fear, the media could report on puppies and baby giggles all day and we all still be crippled by our fear of the out-of-control crime rate in T&T’
I do believe in strong-fisted gun control; however, our problem isn’t legally owned guns.
It’s the ones that slip through our super secure ports and tightly guarded beaches. Maybe getting the illegal gun trade under control should be the focus of their “efforts,” rather than scapegoating legal gun owners.
So yeah, CARICOM either did not understand the assignment or just had a jolly time liming all day and threw together some flimflam plan to appease their desperate citizenry.
Their plan is less a WAR ON GUNS and more a WAR ON COMMONSENSE.
While this nonsensory was ricocheting around in my head along comes Head of TTPS’ Central Division Michael Pierre blaming the media for creating public fear in regard to our murders by the minute society.
Bredren, people don’t need the media to instill fear, the media could report on puppies and baby giggles all day and we all still be crippled by our fear of the out-of-control crime rate in T&T.
There is no one in our country, regardless of their race, religion, or socioeconomic standing, that hasn’t been touched by crime. I have lost two people to murder, the first when I was just 17. The hardest part for me to swallow, and I am sure for all others who lost loved ones to crime, is the perpetrators of these crimes were never found and are free to continue carrying out their daily lives with no remorse and no fear of consequences.
So, Pierre can bubble down, I don’t need the media to frighten me. My countrymen and I have had real life experiences that have cemented fear into us.
Quick side note: Miss me with this bring back the hangman… firstly you have to actually catch the criminals and secondly you have to have a judicial system where it wont take 495 years for their case to be called, by which time, the witness has gone missing, files were incorrectly labelled… So yeah, once that’s in order, be my guest to call for hanging.
Pierre, like the CARICOM heads, seems to be grasping at straws, pointing fingers and hoping no one will notice that the problem stems from our Governance and our lack of faith in a police system that has been systematically abused and starved of vital resources over the years.
It’s easy to cast blame, but in a situation such as ours, where an entire population feels hostage to rampant and uncontrolled criminality within society, we need those in charge to take a long hard look in the mirror if they really want things to change.
How Does Banning High-Powered Assault Weapons Help Us?
‘Bahahaha, yeah, I think Biden has a lot more on his mind right now. And frankly the gall, because I don’t see CARICOM working hard to prevent their shores and ports from being a popular drug transshipment point’
BLAME high-powered assault weapons! Those guns are the devil! They are the root of all crime!
And blame the media! It’s the media that has everyone scared of crime!
Ahh, the blame game, TT’s leaders favorite pass time. Why admit any responsibility when you can find some other sucker to nail to a cross.
This week our Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley hosted some of his CARICOM buddies at the Caricom Regional Symposium: Violence as a Public Health Issue-the Crime Challenge (Seriously! No one could have found a shorter name?).
After some serious deliberation at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, sponsored by our tax dollars, the CARICOM dream team featuring Barbadian PM Mia Mottley, emerged with a breakthrough plan to solve the regions crime problem drumroll please… the solution to crime is ban high-powered assault weapons within the civilian population!!!
Be gracious peasants!
Erm? How? How does this help our spiraling crime rate? Do they think all those criminals with their illegally sourced assault weapons are going to think, “Hmm, well I better do as the law says and turn in my weapons, I better cancel that order I have for that crate of AK47s.”
I am not too sure if the heads of CARICOM are aware, but the vast majority of violent gun related crime is not being carried out by licensed weapon holders.
Now, I am not saying there aren’t some morally bankrupt individuals who allegedly rent or loan out their legal firearms, but in general I don’t get the impression that CARICOM understood the assignment.
Personally, I am not a fan of guns, but if you are, then good on you. Not sure why you would want a high-powered assault rifle, but different strokes for different folks I suppose.
Like many levelheaded individuals, I am struggling to see how this will curb crime. Oh wait, they are going to write to Uncle Joe Biden, President of the U-S-A, and urge him to help prevent these weapons from being shipped here.
Bahahaha, yeah, I think Biden has a lot more on his mind right now. And frankly the gall, because I don’t see CARICOM working hard to prevent their shores and ports from being a popular drug transshipment point.
‘Bredren, people don’t need the media to instill fear, the media could report on puppies and baby giggles all day and we all still be crippled by our fear of the out-of-control crime rate in T&T’
I do believe in strong-fisted gun control; however, our problem isn’t legally owned guns.
It’s the ones that slip through our super secure ports and tightly guarded beaches. Maybe getting the illegal gun trade under control should be the focus of their “efforts,” rather than scapegoating legal gun owners.
So yeah, CARICOM either did not understand the assignment or just had a jolly time liming all day and threw together some flimflam plan to appease their desperate citizenry.
Their plan is less a WAR ON GUNS and more a WAR ON COMMONSENSE.
While this nonsensory was ricocheting around in my head along comes Head of TTPS’ Central Division Michael Pierre blaming the media for creating public fear in regard to our murders by the minute society.
Bredren, people don’t need the media to instill fear, the media could report on puppies and baby giggles all day and we all still be crippled by our fear of the out-of-control crime rate in T&T.
There is no one in our country, regardless of their race, religion, or socioeconomic standing, that hasn’t been touched by crime. I have lost two people to murder, the first when I was just 17. The hardest part for me to swallow, and I am sure for all others who lost loved ones to crime, is the perpetrators of these crimes were never found and are free to continue carrying out their daily lives with no remorse and no fear of consequences.
So, Pierre can bubble down, I don’t need the media to frighten me. My countrymen and I have had real life experiences that have cemented fear into us.
Quick side note: Miss me with this bring back the hangman… firstly you have to actually catch the criminals and secondly you have to have a judicial system where it wont take 495 years for their case to be called, by which time, the witness has gone missing, files were incorrectly labelled… So yeah, once that’s in order, be my guest to call for hanging.
Pierre, like the CARICOM heads, seems to be grasping at straws, pointing fingers and hoping no one will notice that the problem stems from our Governance and our lack of faith in a police system that has been systematically abused and starved of vital resources over the years.
It’s easy to cast blame, but in a situation such as ours, where an entire population feels hostage to rampant and uncontrolled criminality within society, we need those in charge to take a long hard look in the mirror if they really want things to change.