Posted on 06/15/2022 6:47:14 AM PDT by grundle
Shop assistants pose with various handgu
Shop assistants pose with various handguns at the Defense and Sporting Arms show at a shopping mall in Manila on July 16, 2009. Credit - TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images
Mass shootings are a result of a confluence of factors, but at the heart of the problem are guns—of which the Philippines has plenty. Firearms are sold openly in malls, and almost anyone can carry them, even priests and accountants.
For now, though, powerful social factors continue to have a restraining effect on indiscriminate violence. Philippine academic Raymund Narag, a criminology associate professor at Southern Illinois University and a former prisoner himself, says mass shootings in his native country are in part deterred by hiyâ, a Tagalog word meaning shame or embarrassment. Avoidance of hiyâ, and sparing one’s family and community from it, is often described as a core Philippine value.
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Red herring question. These Philippines groups have different languages. And they have much broader genetic/ racial base. There’s multiple major “clusters” of these that are somewhat related. The simple fact is they figured out that if their region was going to be anything other than a way point various countries used to get somewhere else they needed to learn to get along and form a nation. While America has always been extremely good at not getting along and forcing even variations of white people to be “over there” in Irish, or Italian, or other “designated” neighborhoods, the Filipinos intermix, learn multiple languages, and blend.
“The ownership of firearms in the Philippines is regulated by the Firearms and Explosives Division of the Philippine National Police.
In order to possess a firearm in the Philippines, a person must be at a minimum age of 21 years and pass a background check to be issued a Possession License.
They must also take a firearms training and safety course.
Any history of mental illnesses or domestic violence within the individual or the family will cause an applicant to have their request rejected.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_in_the_Philippines
So is Latin America.
When I lived in Manila there were signs in businesses......no Guns allowed
The businesses were mostly restraunts and a big movie theater
They have a DIFFERENT Catholicism.....Phipppines seems to be REAL Catholics!
But the Pope’s...
Ping, for your consideration.
Myself having been to P.I. (Manila) when my ship stopped there in 1996, It’s something to address at some point.
When my ship stopped at Phuket, Thailand, the jewelry shops were aggressively guarded by guys with submachine guns.
I’m guessing that those countries give absolutely zero fornications about the criminal’s, “FEEWINGS,” and just wreck them when they step out of line.
Something that sincerely needs to return to our nation.
It has been well documented. A great many of these mass murderers expect to die, as a form of suicide, and they want to go out as a celebrity.
They know the media will make them a celebrity, even in death.
The idea of shame has merit; as well, however, the Philippines is not subjected to the amount of Media pushing of mass murder as a path to celebrity immortality as exists in the United States.
Sadly, our American enemedia feeds these demons with every body count.
How many millions in free advertisement did Adam Lanza receive from MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc?
Sandy Hook resulted in my democrat run legislature’s passed laws which caused my home state’s murder rate to increase 71% after passing their insane gun control laws in 2013.
THEY should be held accountable because they promote these atrocities -while cheerleading the social irregularities that give birth to more of these horrors.
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