The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lassoannounced in a message to the nation last Saturday that the new measures to combat insecurity in the country would include the authorization to possess and carry weapons for civilian use for “personal defense”.
“We have modified the decree that allows the possession and carrying of weapons,” he said, and indicated that the manufacture, registration and possession of artisanal weapons is prohibited.
This announcement is part of a wave of violent acts related to firearms in USAwhose amendment to article two of its magna carta, which states that “the right of the People to keep and bear arms will not be infringed,” allows almost anyone to have the option of carrying a weapon.
Reactions to the measure decreed by Lasso
Following President Lasso’s announcement, various reactions have been unleashed, both welcoming and rejecting the measure.
“According to an inept soulless like Lasso, the ‘war’ is citizen-criminals and not the State-crime… That’s why the carrying of weapons! The solution is that, with the exception of the public force, no one carries weapons, starting with criminals , and that is possible. We already did it,” the former Ecuadorian president wrote on his social networks. Rafael Correaone of the first to respond critically.
On the other hand, the Ecuadorian parliamentarian Cristiano Esteban Torres Cobofrom the Social Party, described the measure as “late, but positive”: “The possession and carrying of weapons for civilians, an unfulfilled campaign promise, comes two years late, but it is positive and necessary,” can be read on his Twitter account .
Among the measures announced, the use of pepper spray for personal defense was also authorized. Likewise, Lasso pointed out that the private security guards will support the National Police Ecuadorian in surveillance and security tasks carrying their weapons.
Source-larepublica.pe
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