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Panama Presents Gun Control Bill
To fight the wave of violence
gripping Panama, currently 340
cases a year in a population of
3.19 million, legislators plan
to announce details of a bill
Tuesday to control handguns and
weapons of war in the country.
It is necessary to regulate the
sale of light arms, which affect
the security of all countries of
the world, where over 1,700
people die daily at the hands of
criminals who use them,
legislator Juan Hernandez said.
Hernandez said further that in
less than two years some75,000
light arms have been bought in
Panama.
Despite the atmosphere of
insecurity in the country,
largely due to drug trafficking
from Colombia through Panama to
the United States, the deputy
asserted that Panama still has
lower rates of crime and
violence than others in Central
America and homicides are only
one percent of crimes reported.
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