Mexico City.– After acknowledging that there are not enough police to protect their property and families, the spokesman for Morena in the Chamber of Deputies, Arturo Ávila, saw as a good measure the initiative of President López Obrador that allows the carrying of weapons to ejidatarios, communeros and agricultural day laborers.
In an interview in San Lázaro, the Morena member rejected the idea that this initiative legalizes self-defense groups, since, he said, it only regulates a reality that already exists.
“The reality is that there are good people who arm themselves to protect their assets and we need to regulate them,” he replied. Last Wednesday, President López Obrador sent to the Chamber of Deputies an initiative to reform the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives that allows the carrying of weapons not only by this sector, but also by members of public companies and autonomous bodies.
He acknowledged that there are places today where state and municipal police forces and even the National Guard do not have the capacity to deal with security needs. Given this reality, he added, they must be given the opportunity to arm themselves.
“The criterion is the force capacity that the police have today. As I mentioned, there are very remote places where neither the municipal police nor the state police, nor even the National Guard, have the capacity, so they must be given that possibility,” he said. Questioned on whether this means that what was said by military commanders in Sinaloa is true, in the sense that the cessation of violence in the entity depends on criminal groups stopping fighting, Ávila said that they are completely different things. “No, it has nothing to do with it, they are completely different things, you have to understand it, it is an initiative that gives Mexicans in these conditions the possibility of carrying a weapon. Today our Constitution already provides for it, today even the law provides for it, it is simply very complicated, today we are making it much simpler. For what? To avoid trafficking,” he said. The Morena member rejected that with the reform the authority renounces its responsibility to provide security, because with it only the possibility is provided for people to be able to arm themselves. He recalled that in the United States it is a constitutional right for every person to be able to arm themselves and, regarding the shootings that have taken place in that country, he denied that this could happen in Mexico because “we have values, we are very different.” “That does not mean that the State has renounced the capacity to provide security; that means nothing more than that a person is given certainty so that they can protect their property or assets and that seems innovative to me and that seems important to me,” he said.
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