Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan has pointed to Tuesday’s fatal shooting of a man by a licensed firearm holder as an example of why there is a need for the review of firearm licences with a view to revoking some of them.
“That is why I said that we will do the checks every year… We got a lot of people who are not mentally sound in this place and they carry arms,” the Public Security Minister told reporters yesterday following the launch of a Citizen Security Strengthening Programme.
“Only last night [Tuesday] a guy with a licensed firearm shoot up somebody reversing in his driveway… This is an extremely sad story. Would not believe that someone, from what I am being told, would just see a car turn into a driveway and he come down like a cowboy and start shooting,” he said.
