Another story about how there should be stricter gun control laws.
A news story headline reads, Football Referee Pulls Out Gun, Fires!
But this is not just about some private individual who draws a gun and fires it in the air, this is about an apparently off duty police officer in Malaysia refereeing for a football game, that turns rowdy.
The Malaysian referee took out his gun, fired warning shots in the air after a local soccer match turned unruly following the suspension of a player. A call that fans and players were unhappy about.
The referee, who was also a policeman, ran to his patrol car to get his gun after players mobbed him for showing the red-card to one of them.
The news story further reports that the policeman was taken into custody for suspected misuse of firearms.
In the Philippines just a few months ago, we heard of an off duty and drunk Police Superintendent who figures in a road mis-hap with TV news crew; an argument ensues which leads to the cop outnumbered and beaten, with the whole thing on tape. By the way, the news crew did the beating. Maybe these guys have been watching too much reality TV. The cop, rushed to find his gun in his vehicle, luckily his smart thinking companion hid it from him. Who knows what could have happened.
There are so many issues regarding gun control, some people calling for stricter laws and penalties, and I am certainly for such regulations.
However, guns don’t kill people, people with guns do; regardless of how many laws there are or how extreme the penalties, if there are people who are otherwise unfit to own or possess a gun whether they be private citizens or agents of the law… there will always be gun related incidents.
Gun control is non existent if the gun owner hardly exercises any control, or is too ignorant or arrogant to know what situations call for a gun.
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