Does voluntary disarmament work?
For Ramón Celaya, a specialist in intelligence and security processes, the possession of firearms is an issue that affects not only public safety, but also national security.
The expert explained that it is common crime that is supplied with weapons by the ant trafficking of police corporations, through the weapons that are stolen or lost by the police, since the large drug cartels supply themselves with weapons that come , mainly from the United States.
“One of the indicators that will help to reduce violence in large cities such as Mexico City is despistolization. It is very positive, why? because it is alarming to see the amount of firearms that circulate daily in the hands of ordinary citizens, which most of the cases do for self-defense, “he said.
For Celaya, since there is no culture of peace in society, the voluntary withdrawal of weapons from the streets can have a positive impact and reduce violence in general.
“Not just label criminals, because many times there are many acts of violence that occur in a circumstantial way, of people who were not criminals but killed their neighbor in a minor problem, their partner in an act of jealousy and it escalated to a homicide ”, he detailed.
For his part, Arturo Argente, academic and specialist in social sciences at Tec de Monterrey, considers that the arms exchange, although it could yield good data, the numbers not only in Mexico City, but throughout the country, speak of why more arms withdrawals, homicides remain at very high levels.
“The Hugs and no Balazos strategy is a phrase that has no form, no substance or no meaning whatsoever and that somehow does not come together with a policy that tries to address the issue of impunity, we see that criminals find errors during the development of due process and the only thing they do is feed is the issue of insecurity in the country, “he said.
