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"SO, I ASK CONGRESS...HELP US FIGHT CRIMINALITY"

Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic Remulla in a press briefing on Wednesday, Aug. 19, called on Congress to enact laws, and reevaluate existing ones concerning gun ownership, including penalizing gun owners for not safekeeping their firearms, following the fatal school shooting incident in Zamboanga City.

Remulla said that on two of the recent notable school shootings, one of which happened in Tacloban City, the weapons used by the suspects were government-issued firearms to qualified personnel. (Video courtesy of DILG)

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00:00I call upon Congress to enact laws that will penalize gun owners for the non-safe keeping of their weapons.
00:15Sa dalawang nakaraan na shooting sa mga eskwelahan, pareho siyang government-issued firearms to qualified personnel. Ngunit sa parehong bagay
00:28ay hindi inalagaan yung mga baril.
00:31Ang penalty, ang penalty ng paggamit ng legal guns kung kinuha lang ng bata at kinuha ng bata ang baril
00:46sa magulang o sa guardian, ang penalty ay reckless imprudence lamang.
00:52Walang penalty ang may hawak ng baril, ang mayari ng baril.
00:57Ang penalty sa bata na bumaril ay, ano lang sila, treated as a juvenile.
01:08Isn't the owner of the gun equally responsible?
01:14I call upon Congress to review the laws on loose firearms.
01:18We went through the numbers.
01:1998% of gun crimes, 98% of gun crimes are committed with loose firearms.
01:29The Robin Padilla Law, which extinguished culpability and made it a bailable offense, has led to a surge of crime
01:35because, precisely because, loose firearms is a bailable offense.
01:41I call upon Congress to make aims, to make laws that make it once again non-available, that make it
01:49once again preventable.
01:51I call upon Congress to help us fight criminality, penalizing, dismissed AFP and PNP personnel from owning, not only firearms,
02:04but also their uniforms.
02:07Recent crimes have been committed by the use of dismissed AFP and PNP personnel using their previous uniforms and identifying
02:15themselves as police.
02:16That should be a crime as police, that should be a crime as well.
02:20There are approximately 2.78 million firearms in the country.
02:282 billion in the hands of private individuals, 780 in the hands of law enforcement.
02:36That goes with AFP, PNP, BGNP, Coast Guard, Bureau of Immigrations, Customs Police, NBI, and the others.
02:47This is a country where there are a lot of guns.
02:51But gun violence itself, legal gun violence itself, is not rampant.
02:56These are the few tragedies that are.
02:59So I ask Congress, help us, join us, help us fight criminality, impose the laws, which will make a difference.
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