Skelton-Cline wants laws for private citizens to bear arms
The calls were made moments ago during a special Wednesday, April 21, 2021, edition of his Honestly Speaking show on ZBVI 780 AM and come on the heels of a woman being fatally shot during a robbery at her residence in Paraquita Bay on April 18, 2021.
‘Only the criminal got the guns’ – Skelton Cline
"It’s a situation where only the criminals got the guns, but law-abiding citizens who need to protect their family, some of whom have businesses are being denied the capacity, the ability to carry a licensed firearm,” the man of the cloth said.
Skelton-Cline, a business owner and local clergyman, also questioned why criminals are allowed to have guns in the VI but business owners cannot have guns.
He further called on the National Security Council to address the issue and make moves to bring crime under control.
“How is it that we allow in a country for just the criminals to have guns and there are no real means by which people can protect themselves?” he asked.
“You mean to tell me somebody come into your business, into your home, you have no means… and if you have a firearm of any sort and you seek to defend yourself and then go to the Magistrate or the Judge, then the Judge is prosecuting you for having an unlicensed firearm?” Skelton-Cline asked rhetorically.
Legislators tasked to reform laws against crime
Calling for more criminal law reforms, he tasked legislators in the House of Assembly (HoA) to deal with the issue, “if the current laws that we have on our books are not suited for the 21st century and the challenges that we face,” he said the laws would need to be reformed.
“We cannot remain as sitting sucks in the country where the innocent continues to suffer and in so many instances lose their lives. It's unacceptable,” the man of the cloth said.
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16A. Prohibited Firearms or Ammunition
(1) Subject to this Act, a person shall not use, purchase, acquire or have in his or her possession, import or export, carry, manufacture, supply or offer to supply to another, be concerned in the supplying to another, of any of the weapons specified in the Third Schedule.1
(2) The Governor, acting on the advice of the National Security Council, may exempt any person or class of persons from the provisions of this section.
These police can not even get these scooter kids under control.....do we really expect them to solve murders and control guns ?
Surely you would just be making it easier for criminals to get hold of firearms.
More guns means easier for people to get shot in moments of temper and the criminals will be more likely to carry guns if they think their potential victims have them. Also I must have missed the part in the BVI laws that says criminals are allowed to carry guns. Claude is really outdoing himself with this crackpot idea
Every time he comes on I stop watch the fake preaching theatrics.
We need education. People don’t know their rights and we have a mentally that inflicting harm upon a robber is seen as probably putting YOU in jail.
People don’t know what they can or can’t do to safe guard themselves nor is any official advocating sensible methods of self defense all they will say is leave it to the police continue being helpless
This is not natural for human beings to be defenseless.
The contradiction is the idea of a gun as a first & last step fix all is a infantile nuclear solution which shows our disconnection with the idea of security and sensible solutions.
Fact is the police come afterwards they can’t protect you in the moment.
If an intruder enters a home you have to be proactive not reactive and at their mercy on your property.
We are not ready for guns we don’t even have the mindset to encourage or scale up self defense that will deter incapacitate and may kill but probably won’t, unlike a gun.
Let the experts fill us in on solutions. We can get rid of the guns if police get serious on how and who brings them in.
People can’t drive properly and we want them to have guns. Registered guns kill innocent people too. we can’t handle a mass shooting seriously.
Is hard not to attack his character as a pastor he makes me wonder what that word means.
USA , guns easily available Deaths from guns 2017, 39,773
UK, guns very hard to get, illegal. Deaths from guns 2017, 29.
Gorne to he head A bible in one hand and a 357 in the other / AMEN
GOD IS NOT AGAINST ARMS. HE IS AGAINST SIN.
ON THIS ONE CSC IS RIGHT. LIFE IS PRECIOUS TO ALL. CRIMINAL NEED TO ACCEPT THIS TRUTH ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
Clearly he knows the laws as little as he knows the bible. The laws already provide that anyone can apply to be exempt from the restriction of having a gun.
I look forward to the fair and balanced community reaction when a white expat shoot a black burglar in self defence.
Impose a 20k fine for anyone found with a gun —look how the US have created a huge problem with people being killed every day due to gun violence. This would add to crime not help it one bit.
High school shootings, armed robbery’s, wanna be punks running wild...
A man of God!. Best joke I’ve heard in a long time.
People say self defense and first they jump to is a gun but you won’t educate yourself otherwise.