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October
October
Gun Ban on Boracay?
2 comments Posted in: UncategorizedTagged with boracay, One MGM, politics, safety
Earlier this year and during the year before there was a good deal of firearm violations involving larger property owners hiring off-duty security guys to go shoot-em-up over land ownership disputes, property line disputes, and once just for the hell of it at an elementary school. Although local media misrepresented it with stories about no tourists being in harms way (when there were lots of tourists present at the time, and my friend was involved in a tear-gassing that somehow escaped reporting) it still made the news eventually.
In response they declared plans to make Boracay a Gun-Free Zone.
The Philippine National Police will bar the unauthorized carrying of guns on Boracay Island as part of measures to tighten security and stem violence in the country’s top tourist destination.
Chief Superintendent Isagani Cuevas, Western Visayas police director, said in a statement that his office was finalizing plans for the implementation of the ban on the 1,032-hectare island-resort.
So there I am in a trike on the main road, at that new shopping mall One MGM is building, and the single largest sign of new stores moved in— Guns and Ammo Trading.
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crap, thought I did. seems lost. I’ll get another one for posterity.
Oct 26, 2009 at 9:02 PM