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El Salvador Defends Arms Control
Although 96.1 percent of
Salvadorians admit the danger
weapons represent and 69.2
percent favour prohibiting
carrying these deadly weapons,
the Salvadoran government
opposes legislation making
carrying them illegal.
A poll by LPG-Data in the daily
La Prensa Grafica reflects that
the legislation presented by the
pluralist Commission for
Solidarity and Social Peace is
supported by seven of ten people
in this country.
The survey responded to the
local debate around the bill to
help reduce almost 11 percent of
the homicides registered daily
in El Salvador.
Sectors directly related to the
government and weapons sales
insisted on opposing the measure
despite the increase of deaths.
The homicide rate in this
Central American country is 57
per 100,000 inhabitants,
considered by the World Health
Organization as an epidemic of
violence.
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