EDITOR, The Tribune.
US Embassy Travel warnings - where do the guns come from? Travel Advisories? Not as if we have notoriety for demonstrations or protest marches far from what we witness on US TV News I have to question the seeming quickness of the US Embassy in issuing Travel Advisory-warnings to US Citizens.
The irony is that very, very few Americans go on-line to the State Department and check if at destination A-B-C there is a travel advisory or warning.
How many of the 16,000, primary US citizens on the cruise boats in Nassau Harbour Friday, November 25th 2016, will know of a warning?
Where are the guns coming from? 2015 - 147 murders, mostly with the use of a gun - The Bahamas does not manufacture guns so where are they coming from? It seems owing to the make and type all come from the US.
Who should take responsibility? Moreso than ever if the means of killing is with the use of a gun and the guns are smuggled from the US to The Bahamas I have to say the US has to take the fullest responsibility and effectively take all means available to stop the smuggling. Will they?
W THOMPSON
Nassau,
November 25, 2016.
Comments
milesair 7 years, 5 months ago
The U.S.A. is the largest weapons manufacturer (including guns) in the world. The U.S. promotes the use of guns and refuses to even make gun owners submit to licensing and back ground checks claiming that it will infringe on American's God given right to own a gun (the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution). There is lots of money in weapons and you can bet that as long as "the gravy train of profits" keeps rolling in, nothing will be done to stop it. America has a GUN FETISH!
xaminmo 6 years, 3 months ago
Yah, but even with this, the Bahamas has 6x the homicide rate of the US. The core problem is not guns. The core problem is economic. Everything else, including both the demand for guns, and the proliferation of crime, spawns from that.
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