The Minister of Defense Admiral Sigfrido Pared Perez says that the high number of firearms in the country is a main contributing factor to violence and crime.
He said that the problem is the lack of regulation and that 98% of the homicides and woundings that occur in the country are carried out with illegal firearms.
Pared Perez said that only 2% of murders were carried out with legal weapons, some of which were due to domestic violence.
He reminded that measures to ban the import of firearms had not achieved their objective of reducing the murder rate.
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