KPB:LOAD UP THE 'MATIC'

Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar doubles down on her call to holders of legal guns to open fire on home invaders if confronted.

Transcript

00:00 On the heels of criticism from the Prime Minister and other quotas that she was reckless and

00:05 irresponsible for telling citizens to fire on gun-toting home invaders, the opposition leader

00:12 is not apologising. I apologise to absolutely no one for saying to light up the criminals who are invading homes,

00:20 killing mercilessly and forcing you to live in fear. Kamla Prasad Besasa played an audio recording

00:27 of a victim of a home invasion in Aranguez, crying out in distress.

00:33 If people are purple, green, brown, black, white, light them up when they come into your home.

00:38 Light them up. Light them up.

00:41 What are they doing in your home, in your castle?

00:49 They could have no good intentions to invade your home, none whatsoever.

00:55 She says the laws in place are vague and require clarification.

01:00 It's very easy for the dictator to stand and tell you whatever he wants to tell you.

01:06 But that could be your wife, that could be your daughter, that could be your mother,

01:12 and that could be you, any one of you sitting, that could be any one of you.

01:17 The opposition leader accuses the Prime Minister of politicising crime, even as she says victims

01:24 who do survive often live their lives in constant fear, suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder

01:31 and anxiety. They become suicidal, she says, and very often marriages are broken.

01:38 What would you do when they invade your home, when they hold on your wife or your daughter to rape and rob?

01:45 What would you do, criminals? Invade, all kinds of terror and horror.

01:52 What should you do? What should you do, Rowley? What should you do? Empty the clip! Empty the clip!

02:02 Speaking to her San Fernando audience, she emphasised the need for legally prescribing

02:08 the circumstances by which citizens can go to the extreme to defend themselves and their families.

02:15 The law is vague and needs to be clarified once and for all. What do we mean?

02:22 It doesn't mean you just open your gun, you empty the clip. There are circumstances in which you can do it.

02:28 The opposition leader referenced Trinibad music, which she credited as being the dominant music in TNT,

02:35 a form of social commentary and a reflection of how society is functioning.

02:41 Trinibad language tonight. You have to load up the matic.

02:47 You have to load up this matic. You have to pull it back. You have to knock it on them.

03:05 And then knock it again, knock it again. When the criminals are coming through your door of your home.

03:15 She called on the country to wake up, promising the first piece of legislation once a party enters the corridors of governance

03:23 will be stand your ground laws and easier access to legal firearms.

03:28 Arvishi Tiwari, Riponurain, TV6 News.

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