The couple had been off on a visit to Palawan and were staying in Makati, a district in the capital region of Manila, on Feb. 19 when a pair of robbers on a motorcycle stopped them and held them at gunpoint. [More]
But…but…but commonsense…
Background Checks, Genuine Reason, Licensing, Registration…
“The estimated total number of guns (both licit and illicit) held by civilians in the Philippines…”
I wonder why they don’t break out those two numbers? Because you know they could.
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“CompareEstimated Number of Unregistered and Illicit Firearms
Unregistered and unlawfully held guns cannot be counted, but in the Philippines there are estimated to be
2017: 2,037,00010 1
2005: 3,125,0002”
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So more than half of the guns in the country are held by criminals. Wonderful. This is where the grabbers want us to go.