As a teenager or young Bermuda man in his twenties, he can shoot and/or kill someone and go to jail for approximately 20 years. He will be protected by the government (west gate) where no other gang member can get to him and can come out in his 40s as a certified accountant, reinsurance specialist or even a lawyer.

wow,

Free Daycare
Free Primary/High School
Free Bermuda College
Free Housing
Free financial assistance
Free Legal Aid
Freedom of Speech

People are struggling to pay their mortgages and these guys get tax payers to pay for lawyers to represent then for their heinous crimes.

and yes, outside help?!?!, they cannot implement what they do out there in Bermuda, because, as your commissioner of Police Says, it would be illegal.

Peace out, monitoring via the internet. Its like an interesting movie.

By the way, keep praying and burying your heads in the sand. Can anyone count how many wars were inspired in the bible?

Yes….. Many. Bermuda do not house these little @#$%**ers. round them up and hang them.

Come one Bermuda we have to get serious. You can not pay the criminals for their guns because all you are doing is promoting and rewarding them! You are paying them for their illegal contributions to our society and letting them get off scott free!

Just saying the life of a few for the greater good of the community is worth it.

Here’s a video and article showing the affect executions have on murder rates.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=5954192

maybe if you offered a well paying job, a home and a car in exchange for the gun you would see some results.

everyone wants security in this world. what makes you feel safe? think about what makes these young men feel safe that is actually attainable to them. its likely they can get their hands on a gun easier than a degree. and when they see all the college grads hurting for employment after spending all that money for their degree -they must feel pretty justified in choosing the gun. lets face it, with all the unemployment and expats leaving, illegal drug sales are also down. drug dealers still need income too – $5000 isn’t going to pay the rent and bills for very long.

Sadly, there is no one solution that will make this madness go away with the flick of a switch and that is what people seem to want. This has been ten years (or more) in the making and will take years of commitment at all levels to undo. Better education, better policing, improved witness protection programs, improved justice system, less corruption at the top, legalisation of marijuana, improved customs etc can all help in stopping this madness.

Most importantly, we all need to teach our Island’s children (and ourselves) to value eachother as fellow human beings and value life itself. Black, white, rich, poor, somerset, st.georges, UBP, PLP — we’re in this together, and the solutions will only be effective when we collectively agree that we’ve had enough of this madness.

R U serious…… That’s a couple of reasons…..

Like Priorities mentioned above, money would not motivate a gang member to turn in guns – they are probably making more by selling drugs anyway. Even if they were willing to give in their guns for cash, why give away taxpayer money to criminals, when you are cutting back on giving financial assistance to seniors and families who really need it??

We need to bring in overseas help to tackle the gang violence. Didn’t Scotland Yard or some overseas task force offer to assist us not to long ago? The police need to admit they are in over their heads and seek assistance from those who are qualified to deal with these things.

Correcting my grammer was as dumb as you are, why, because l didn’t say l knew anything…it was just my opinion. You re wht the problem in Bermuda is…..I am just a human with an opinion on guns and murder and you are correcting my grammer and calling me names personally.

Pathetic PLP backbencher or wannabe plp underbencher(still sucking Brown off)

For those of us who have lived in other jurisdiction and as such, see things for what they are and not just the picture painted in a “match Box”. We saw this coming years ago and know where it’s heading. So if you all think like Minister Perinchief thought, that this was just something that will cycle itself away, you all are living in “Laa-Laa Land” and as such, are in for a rude awakening, because if you thing you see anything yet, wait and see what the next three to five years will bring.

And if you all all think that some “Gun Buy Back” will work, when it’s never worked anywhere else, that have tried it. Oops! I forgot, you all don’t know what goes on in the real world, because the Sun evolves around Bermuda and we are the chosen ones.

Well, you all are thinking like the Minister, that somehow your boys are not of the same human race, that’s found all over the world, but are of some other human specie, that they can’t become killers all on their own. Instead, they need some foreigner to tell them to start killing and that’s why they are doing it.

The solution is simple, poison the root, and the tree will not grow, but while you are waiting for the tree to die a slow death, you’ll still need to cut off the branches and burn them to get rid of them. In other words, fix the social ills and educate your people, “ALL YOUR PEOPLE” and in fifteen years the pool of delinquents would have diminished to a more manageable level.

You can also do the dumb thing, which is to keep blaming foreigners, try and pay $10000 for a $500 Gun, not educate your people and see where we will be in fifteen years. Don’t get me wrong, these gangsters are no fool, they will bring in those guns, because if they understand anything, it’s “by low and sell high” with that $10,000, gosh!! a prudent Gangster, can sell his $500 gun for $10,000, buy ten guns and pay his Currier $5000, sell the ten guns for $10,000 each. Wow!! a cool $100,000. Damn! he don’t need to sell drugs again, he just found a less riskier, and waaaay, more profitable means to make a living.

This is just to show that like all politicians around the world that keep coming up with these “bright” ideas, has not stop to think about the unintended consequences, that these “Bright” ideas always have. I will be the the first to go against popular opinion, that Premiere Cox made the right decision putting this Minister in charge. I don’t thing he has anywhere near, the wisdom to make the right decisions, but then again, that’s typical of politicians.

I’ll even hang the perps for you and gladly.

As for the guns for money game show….. The people with the guns are not struggling for money. Money would not motivate them to give a gun.

work on a better deal……

get them off the stop list if they can give the police information on a gun. NEW YORK CITY….ATL…..DISNEY WORLD…..you know how we Bermudians love USA.

the country is struggling, why give people money to waste. there is a monetary value to everything, but at least the stop list would be better received.

P.S. You meant to say, “they cant even run their own companies” NOT “there”. Seems like you don’t know everything like I first thought..

Whatever happened to Amnesty?????? thats how the rest of the known world does it, why is it only the PLP that always wants to give money away, why, l will tell you……it goes back to the slave days (and dont get me wrong, lm not racist) and educated black and white folks know this……When you give the checkbook to a mouse with a peanut, eventually an elephant is going to come round and squash em! reteric yes, but nothing makes sense when your a Billion dollars in debt and still so stupid and thick headed to think you can give money away to gangsters and murderers and that will make somekind of difference????

Dumb idea’s= Dumb answers=ignorance=Money=PLP

Well they haven’t. “We commend the Minister for his zeal”.

Listen up Mike. Take your millions and get lost. You ain’t doing nothing and your cream…well…………………

Yah you got me pissed off and my container is empty.