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Oct 21, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
In your Editorial of October 1st 2015, you made reference to the gun amnesty as well as various comments on the crime situation. I want to address the gun amnesty.
I was shocked at the Police Commissioner who at the end of the gun amnesty period, made a public statement that none of the guns surrendered were found to have been involved in any crime;
Just for a moment think of this comment. Was the Police Commissioner is his right senses?
It is an understood situation that when an amnesty is offered, crime or no crime matters not. It is an amnesty, so there is no fear of persecution, prosecution, nor personal prohibition;
So here comes along the Police Commissioner with an impolitic comment ‘that none of the guns surrendered were found to have been involved in any crime’;
How ridiculous! How indicative of trickery and falsity! So what the future of amnesty offers hold especially when coming from the police? Nothing!
The villains did not step forward for in their minds distrust prevailed.
It is my feeling that the real villains did not surrender their guns for they probably suspected some trickery afoot, and that turned out to be a fact when the Police Commissioner publicly indicated that was the real purpose of the gun amnesty offer.
I hope the British arrive post haste to start the promised training of the police in Guyana.  Police thinking skills seem to need some refurbishment.
Carl Veecock

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