During this day, a demonstration was registered in the Plaza de la Constitución by members of the Chilean Rifle Association (ACDR), who are against the plan proposed by the Government of the President Gabriel Boric, to prohibit the carrying of firearms by civilians. Faced with this, the Minister of the Interior, Izkia Sichesstressed that “our government is committed to eliminating fire power.”
It should be noted that the ACDR representative, Josefa Rodriguezspecified that “I do not believe in the figures that 80% of weapons used for crime are registered. There is a factor that we stop deceiving citizens with erroneous figures. What is correct is that today criminals they have military weapons, they are attacking our citizens and that it is weapons that a normal person cannot have in their homes,”
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Siches, regarding these statements, indicated that “it was the South Prosecutor’s Office who has sent us the data regarding the seized weapons, precisely involved in homicides, where the data presented by the prosecutor that is worrying was that weapons seized in these contexts, 80% actually came from legally registered weapons”.
In addition, he stressed that the issue goes beyond figures, since “there is an underlying issue”, insisting that “our Government is committed to eliminating the power of fire, both from criminals and drug traffickers, because what happens in different neighborhoods of our country can continue to happen, where public space has been positioned by those who commit crimes”.
“It is in this line, where we are going to continue very strongly, taking charge with measures that are effective, but also very harsh against those who today use firepower against the inhabitants of our country. I understand that for some the business may be to sell weapons , for our Government, the commitment to recover our neighborhoods, to recover the functioning of our cities and the security for the inhabitants of our country is fundamental”, closed the Minister of the Interior.
