Meanwhile in Michael Manley Paradise: Melt Them Down edition

I’ve pointed out the extreme nature of the Jamaican gun control regime before. So how exactly are they having so many problems?

Jamaica has melted down about 2,000 illegal firearms as part of a programme to reduce gun trafficking and violent crime on the island.

The pistols and revolvers were thrown into a furnace in the capital Kingston, watched by police and officials from the government and the UN.

Jamaica has one of the highest rates of gun crime in the world.

Correspondents say criminal gangs are often as well armed as the security forces.

One of the highest, but not in the “civilized” world according to the bigoted anti gunners who regularly tell us that the US has the highest in the “Western Industrialized” world. Racism?

There’s more

Between 70-80% of fatal shootings have been linked to criminal gangs whose firepower equals that of the police, our correspondent adds.

I’m guessing that it never occurred to the authorities to freely distribute the guns, including the old military and police weapons, to the honest citizens of Jamaica. We wouldn’t want the hoi polloi to be able to defend themselves.

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