This morning, the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Giorgio Jackson, pointed out that there is a “lack of control” in the possession of weapons in the population.
Jackson’s remarks were made in reference to a serious event that occurred yesterday in the Meiggs neighborhood, Santiago commune, where three people were shot by a group of unknown assailants in the middle of a Labor Day march. The government announced a lawsuit for these facts.
“Without a doubt, this is one of the country situations that are somehow inherited from this month and a half that we have been in, it is a situation with which we start and we are not going to spare resources or measures to go to the bottom of the issue and resolve it,” Jackson said on ADN radio.
However, the Secretary of State’s analysis was refuted by two officials from the government of Sebastián Piñera: the former Undersecretary of the Interior, Juan Francisco Galli, and the former Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, Juan José Ossa.
First, on his Twitter account, Galli responded to Jackson by pointing out that “the modernization of Arms Control was promoted by previous governments. In 2017, in the vote on the idea of legislating on Gun Control, you and President Boric were the only votes against”.
Along the same lines, Ossa attacked: “Since I left the government I have not used networks, I like to collaborate more than fight. But Minister Jackson, you voted against the idea of legislating gun control.. And we are still waiting for them to renew the urgency of the project against drug trafficking, about to go into law.”
On January 12 of this year, after 14 years of processing, the Congress dispatched the reform to the Arms Law, with which the legislation increases the penalties for crimes associated with weapons and provides new tools to the police. “For us it is tremendously important to advance in a new legislation that takes charge and manages the current reality,” said the then Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Delgado.