Published June 28, 2021, 10:32 AM
Anti-crime civilians could avail of existing procedures to own and carry guns if they want to help law enforcement agencies in crime fighting as President Duterte had proposed, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Monday, June 28.
But if the President wanted to ease the procedures for civilians to secure permits to own and carry firearms, Sotto said Congress must first pass a law.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III (Senate of the Philippines)
“It’s already in place if they want. All one has to do is file for a license to possess and a permit to carry. What else do they want?” Sotto said in a message to the Manila Bulletin.
Published June 27, 2021, 3:38 PM
Is the Philippines better off than when President Duterte stepped into power in 2016? Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said this is what he wants to find out when the Chief Executive delivers his final State of the Nation Address (SONA) this July.
“After five years, where are we now, or what is the situation in the many aspects of his administration such as peace and order, fight against illegal drugs, corruption, economy, and foreign policy, particularly the West Philippine Sea?” Lacson asked during a media forum on Sunday.
“We want to hear what happened in the last five years – and moving forward for the last year of his administration, what can still be done?” Lacson said.
Former President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III (Robert Viñas/Malacañang Photo Bureau/Noynoy Aquino’s Facebook page)
The untimely demise of Aquino, “who had lived his life with honesty, integrity, and simplicity so that others may simply live, is a great loss not only to his family but to the Filipino nation as well, particularly those whose lives he had touched,” the resolution read.
The measure also cited the achievements of the 15th Philippine President, “the most significant of which was the Philippines’ gallant stand and victory against economic giant China when the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague ruled that China had no claim to the reef within Philippine territorial waters.”
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