With the UNC government pledging to introduce Home Invasion legislation, Stand Your Ground Laws and greater access to firearms for citizens in good standing, one regional security expert is sounding an alarm. Rynessa Cutting reports.
00:00In a bid to make Trinidad and Tobago more secure, the UNC government has pledged to make firearms accessible to the average citizen.
00:09However, regional security expert Gavin Heera is sounding the alarm.
00:14I'm not saying that it would not work. What I'm saying is that in other jurisdictions, there have been information, there have been data that showed that there have been increases in suicides, increases in other types of gun violence, relaxing firearm acquisition laws without comprehensive security, mental health, enforcement frameworks, thorough vetting is unlikely to reduce crime and may increase certain forms of gun violence.
00:44Conversely, responsible firearm ownership within a robot system can exist without high crime, but it's not a magic solution.
00:52Heera says a measured and methodological approach is needed to first change the culture of the nation.
01:00We have to understand that Trinidad and Tobago has a gun culture, but an illegal arms and gun culture, not a legal arms and gun culture.
01:09And therefore, it has to be a whole cultural shift.
01:11So we have to have a proper public awareness approach to this, proper training, proper readiness of our citizens for the relaxed firearms acquisitions.
01:22So it has to be something that must be reviewed and there should be a pilot project approach to this before going at a national level.
01:30However, following the swearing in of the cabinet on Saturday night, the prime minister hastened the attorney general to make Stand Your Ground a reality soon.
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01:48Give us one more name.
01:49Meantime, newly installed minister of homeland security, Raj Alexander, is sending a message to would-be home invaders.
01:57After the law is created, I suggest that men would not want to ever enter person's home again, a home is a man's castle, and he was the cleanest castle by any lawful means necessary.
02:10At last count, there were roughly 25,000 pending firearm users' licenses requests before the top cop.
02:18How are we moving forward with that?
02:19Okay.
02:20More stringent, but timely response to applications of violence.
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