Ban toy guns, squibs   

Dear Editor,

I HAVE travelled this entire nation and I note with interest from Essequibo to Berbice,that we have more sellers than buyers. What’s interesting is that these people can go to the extreme to sell anything to get money, they don’t care what they sell; and it seems as if the police turn a blind eye to what these people are selling.

With the current increase in crime, I believe lots of things selling on the paves and markets and in our stores should be banned.

For example, I see lots of DVD sellers exposing pornographic DVDs openly for sale and schoolchildren even buying it from them.

They sell masks or false faces that criminals wear to rob people. Most of the toy guns look just like real guns and I know of many instances of people who were robbed by toy guns and the bandits will light a squib to scare people then
rob them.

If a toy gun seller is smart and has contacts, he/she can even sell real guns among his/her selected customers and no one would know, because the toy and real guns looks the same.

The squibs and bombs these people sell that are used on Diwali Nights and Old Year’s Night are very dangerous. I read of a woman whose hands were severely damaged by these bombs. People pelt them on top people’s houses that caused houses to be burnt down. They pelt them on cars to blow them up and on people to blind and disable them; yet these bombs and squibs are sold openly and the police do nothing about it.

Thieves used these bombs to scare people then rob them at nights, people feel it is gun bullets, but it’s the bombs. How can we know when it’s guns or bombs?

How can we know if the bandits have a real gun or toy gun when all look just the same? At markets and many arcades, they play very lewd,loud music and at markets and stores that is another distraction that helps criminal elements to rob people, so no one can hear when they are robbed.

Now I come to these dangerous knives. Just a few days ago, I saw a man walking and selling knives strapped on to his body in a transparent bag with pockets at the bus park. These are the Rambo knives, the switch-blade knives, and a barrage of dangerous knives and ninja kinds of implements. This man was a moving store selling to anyone.

I also saw those same weapons bandits use to rob people selling on the pave. I think many years ago, one could have been locked up for carrying a dangerous weapon and I still believe that law exists, but it seems as if all our laws are flouted daily.

Mr. Editor, I am calling on the Minister of Public Security and the Commissioner of Police to ban the use of squibs, toy guns, masks, dangerous knives, and pornographic DVDs and all sorts of dangerous artillery that are sold openly.

It’s very sad when I look into our country I see people trying to get rich quickly by selling all kinds of evil things and many unlicensed people selling all kinds of poison at the markets.

With the rise of crime and suicide, our administration should implement laws to ban all these things. I have seen even sex toys, handcuffs, and sado -masochistic sex apparatus selling openly at markets and the pave. What have we really become as a nation? I am also hoping that the police will remove all loud road side music on Christmas Eve and Old Year’s Night. Loud music has become an incessant nuisance and menace to our society. May God help us.

Yours truly,
Rev. Gideon Cecil 

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