Colombia experiments with Bogota gun ban
What might be one of the largest experiments in gun control ever attempted is currently under way in the Colombian capital, Bogota.
No weapons are allowed on the streets of this city of 7.3 million people from Wednesday until 30 April.
If the ban results in a significant reduction of the homicide rate it might become permanent.
The ban is being introduced by a former guerrilla - the city’s Mayor Gustavo Petro.
“People who own guns legally can still keep them at their homes or at their offices. But they can no longer bring them to public places, carry them while on the streets, have them in their cars,” Mr Petro’s chief of staff, Antonio Navarro Wolf, explained.
“By doing so we will be protecting them from two things: from becoming a target for criminals who might want to take their weapons, and from using their guns in a moment of madness,” said the former MP and governor of Narino, who demobilised from the left-wing M-19 group in 1990, just like Bogota’s mayor.
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