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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Guns aren't the problem........
It’s the culture, baby - the culture in the Bronx is fundamentally different than that in Staten Island, and one could say the same about dangerous versus safe neighborhoods in just about any big city in the US. And until that changes they can pass gun law after gun law (as they have over the past several decades) and it won’t make a damn bit of difference.
Mostly PRATICING Catholic and Christian.
I do wonder if some of the muslim areas have similar taboos. Intrafaith I mean.
Anyone remember around 1970, when Ferdinand Marcos ordered the registration of handguns?
A few months later he confiscated those registered handguns.
A few months later he seized power and became a dictator for life, for a few years.
Maybe the Filipinos learned a lesson from that not to give up their guns.
“I disagree, I think her hand is just angled so we cannot fully see but her finger is not bent. It is resting above the trigger on the guard.”
Her finger is bent and the tip is inside the guard. Compare hers to the other two.
One of my relatives brought back a Filipino bride from his Navy tour of duty in the Philippines. The young lady had a strong sense of family which is a key to the respectable behavior of residents of her homeland. She and her husband raised a wonderful family here in the States.
I do not understand this article because I do not believe gun ownership is common there.
They are a deeply family and God driven culture and definitely the average person feels guilt and social responsibility.
Otoh they have great corruption and crime, especially drugs. The drugs often lead to violence but much more likely with a knife.
Muslims drive a great deal of the drug sales in the South.
They are very similar to 1950’s American values but with the poverty of a Third World country.
Who, Who..cooks for you!!!!
If you know that "tune" or "call" you know the bird.
From many, one.
I’ve seen the Latin version of that somewhere...
“It is resting above the trigger on the guard.”
There is no guard above the trigger. That is the frame and her finger goes beneath the frame.
Lady behind her also.
I remember Ferdinand Marcos. When he started registering handguns I knew he was going to confiscate and seize power.
He did.
Did you mean Sulu? Sulawesi is in Indonesia.
Richard Speck, in 1966, murdered eight student nurses. He used a knife.
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“When he started registering handguns I knew he was going to confiscate and seize power.
He did.”
He did stop the out-of-control violence and shootings.
You need to upgrade your wokeness.
No matter how homogeneous the Philippines may be, the Lefties will tell you that they possess the proper tincture of melanin to give them that sparkling essence of diversity.
In reality, it is what is between the ears that makes the difference.
You are correct, it is the frame, I just worded my sentence inappropriately. But I can see her painted fingernail, so it is not on the trigger.
In the Muslim areas, as long as you shout Alluha Akbar, it’s cool.
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