Duterte - A Guardian of Guns Rights

Rye83 · Jan 11, 2017

The new sense of safety doesn’t come just from anecdotes. Crime went down overall in Duterte’s first five months in office, according to Philippine National Police figures cited in local media. The country’s index crime volume fell to 55,391 from July through November from 81,064 in the same period of 2015. Not so oddly enough, murder cases rose 51% to 5,970. In the second half of last year, 2,041 “drug suspects” were killed by police, according to the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group.

Duterte resents the critics overseas. He has name-called some and cozied up to countries such as China that don’t give him grief about human rights. Should foreign governments criticize? You can argue for stamping out the drug trade through court trials for dealers and more rehab programs for users of the Philippine drug of choice, “shabu” methamphetamine. That approach preferred in the West would take the Philippines longer to clean up crime but give not-so-hardened criminals and their families a right to keep living – probably better than before.

But if you count street safety as a human right, Filipinos in the cities are suddenly confident they already have it.

The Odd Case For Philippine President Duterte As A Provider Of Human Rights
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Two sides to every argument I suppose.

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