Best Posts in Thread: Series of shootings/killings in Negros Oriental

If anyone enters another person's property without authority, it is very likely they intend to cause harm. The occupier has every right, IMO, to take effective preventative action and not wait to see what occurs (when it might be too late).

Allow me a shotgun and I would paint my walls with anyone who tried to act against my home, without clarifying first if it only my money or if it is my life they seek.

 

3 nights ago two of my sisters in law were waiting at the intersection of Palinpinon Road and Legarda Street when some guy drove up on a motorbike and shot a food vendor 3 times. This happened about 20 meters away from where the girls were. I've been watching the news but there has been no mention of the incident or what happened or whether the food vendor survived. Makes me wonder how often this happens that we are unaware of.

 

I'll stick with the baseball bat (or anything resembling that). Should be adequate for almost every eventuality I think.
I fired plenty firearms (pistols, Uzi's, semi-automatic FAL rifles, .50 machine guns, LAW's, mortars, 25 pounders, and M109 artillery) about 50 years ago, but ever since witnessing a deadly accident with a gun near the end of my time in the army I vowed never to touch one again.

As for ordinary citizens owning guns, that's obviously a real hot potato politically.
Emotions can run very high when debating this issue.
I will just say that in certain countries many people seem oblivious to the very different circumstances at the time their constitution was written, and oblivious to the loud and clear facts about differences in crimes (and accidents) with firearms when comparing countries where it is easy to own/obtain a gun vs. countries where that is hard/illegal.

 

We are a country run by hoodlums, it seems.

 

I note in my home country that cases are reported on by the press, national and local, from the day of the incident to the time of sentencing - and if no-one is caught for a serious crime then the case is brought up again at times. Here there seems little reporting on the process concerning a serious crime - perhaps nothing to report on! - and that lack of scrutiny can be a reason for laxness. However, if a foreign alien (tautology intentional) merely raises his voice, it becomes national news - from time of incident to deportation. Your country needs to look inwards more for the source of its problems and its inadequacies instead of trying to scapegoat the rest of the World.

 

Authorities are probably THE masterminds of this trade.

 

Great to hear that, at least, in spite of our shortcomings, people still feel safe in this country.