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country, and the small number of policemen to protect the civilians, its hard for law-abiding citizens to protect
itself, which makes it hard to stop robbery and extortion. Civilians simply give up the material things without
the right to protect it. Its hard for Filipinos to have a gunless society unlike China, which has a strong police and
military force. Its also hard for Filipinos to have arms freedom like the United States, since crime groups,
especially organized ones, will simply have better weapons than a typical civilian which can usually carry a pistol.
For me, its better for civilians to have firearms, but with strict regulations.
References:
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http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/Law/2007-12/11/content_1383600.htm on February 4, 2015.
Alpers, Philip and Marcus Wilson (2014). China Gun Facts, Figures and the Law. Sydney School of Public
Health, The University of Sydney. Retrieved from http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/china on
February 4, 2015.
Legal Information Institute of Cornell University Law School (1994). U.S. Code Title 18, Part I, Chapter 44, 922
Unlawful Acts. Retrieved from http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/922#g on February 4,
2015.
Alpers, Philip, Amlie Rossetti, Daniel Salinas and Marcus Wilson (2014). United States Gun Facts, Figures and
the Law. Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney. Retrieved from
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states on February 4, 2015.
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Safety on Shooting
Shooting is really a very good sport, despite being stereotypically dangerous. As long as safety is followed
in shooting, it is and will be totally safe. Unlike combat and athletic sports that may cause to injury due to fatigue,
and/or physical contact, shooting will not cause any of it, unless the guns pointed at anything that may cause
such.
In shooting, there are many variations of rules that must be learned by heart. The most famous and most
followed of which, was the so-called Four Cardinal Rules of Gun Safety, made by Jeff Cooper. It is as follows:
References:
TheExpertish (2012). The 4 Cardinal Rules of Gun Safety. Retrieved from http://theexpertishguns.blogspot.com
/2012/01/beginning-4-cardinal-rules-of-gun.html on February 4, 2015.
The Firing Line (n.d.). Jeff Coopers Rules of Gun Safety. Retrieved from https://thefiringline.com/Misc
/safetyrules.html on February 4, 2015.
10 Accidental Shootings in AFP / PNP
NAIA cop hurt in accidental shooting
By Rudy Santos (The Philippine Star) | Updated August 24, 2012 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - An airport policeman was accidentally shot by his colleague at the Ninoy Aquino
International Airport Terminal 1 (NAIA-1) Wednesday night.
According to the results of an initial investigation by Capt. Alden Gay, intelligence chief of the Airport Police
Department, Corporal Christopher de Guzman placed his 9mm service firearm, a CZ-75 Sig Sauer, near the x-ray
monitor while he helped frisk passengers at the initial security checkpoint of the terminal.
Corporal Joseph Miranda allegedly took the gun and played with it. He accidentally pulled the trigger, hitting
Corporal Reynold Mata in the left thigh. The bullet missed Matas groin by a few centimeters. The incident
happened at around 7:26 p.m.
Mata was given first aid at the NAIA clinic before he was brought to the San Juan de Dios Hospital for
confinement.
The Manila International Airport Authority, which runs the NAIA, said it is investigating the incident.
Cop dead after 'accidental' shooting in Olongapo
By Anthony Bayarong (philstar.com) | Updated May 28, 2013 - 2:36pm
OLONGAPO CITY, Philippines - A police officer here died after being accidentally shot by his fellow police just
outside their police headquarters Monday morning.
Reports identified the victim as PO1 Rogene Estrada, 37 while the shooter was identified as PO1 Alexander
Quiming, also a member of the Philippine National Police.
Police Senior Inspector Gil Domingo in a report said the shooting took place at around 8:40 a.m., Monday while
the two were talking near the sentinel post at camp Lt. Manuel Cabal in barangay Baretto, Olongapo City.
Two police officers identified as PO2 David Domingo and PO2 Wilmon Jaudian said that they were talking to
Quiming when the latter pulled out a cal. 38 revolver and played with it.
Estrada, according to the witnesses, was talking to a woman two meters away when he was hit by the bullet
coming from Quiming's pistol.
The victim was rushed to the hospital but died an hour after.
Recovered from the scene was the cal. 38 revolver, while police are still conducting follow up operations to find
Quiming who fled after the shooting.
Cop grounded after "accidental" shooting
By Christine Emily Pantaleon /FPL (The Philippine Star) | Updated July 31, 2012 - 12:00am
CEBU, Philippines - The policeman who claimed to have accidentally shot a man he was arresting for physical
injury was placed under custody of the homicide section pending a formal complaint from the victim.
PO1 Hallid Garlo Omar, resident of Barangay Parian, Cebu City, was also relieved from his field duty at the
Waterfront Police Station effective last Sunday after he figured in what he claimed to be an accidental shooting
Saturday evening.
Omar shot Romeo Cejas in the left leg allegedly during a scuffle when the latter tried to resist arrest. Omar said
he responded to a trouble alarm along Bonifacio Street where he also resides. He said Cejas and a certain Kennel
Rivera were having an argument in the middle of their drinking session.
Omar said he tried to pacify and identified himself as police officer but Cejas allegedly hit Rivera in the nose
prompting him to arrest the former. However, Cejas, who was bigger and taller than Omar, resisted and tried
to grab his service firearm.
They allegedly grappled for the gun until it accidentally went off hitting Cejas in the left leg.
Cejas denied resisting arrest. He told The FREEMAN that the policeman was also having a drinking session
together with his friends in the area when the commotion between him and Rivera happened. Cejas accused
the policeman of haughtily showing his firearm to the people in the place.
Cejas said he requested Omar not to handcuff him as he is willing to come with him voluntarily. However, the
policeman grabbed his hands from behind and shot his leg. Cejas said he has yet to decide whether to press
charges against Omar.
But Omar has already filed complaints for resisting arrest and direct assault against Cejas. Investigation and
Detective Management Branch chief Bonifacio Garciano said they will look into the reports that Omar was drunk
when the incident happened.
Ang mga testigos nag ingon na hubog kuno ang pulis. Nagpaabot pa mi sa complainant if mo file ba jud siya og
kaso (the witnesses said the policeman was drunk. We are still waiting for complainant to press charges),
Garciano said. (FREEMAN)
Policeman hurt in accidental shooting
By Nia G. Sumacot, JPM (The Freeman) | Updated January 27, 2013 - 12:00am
CEBU, Philippines - A policeman landed in the hospital after he was accidentally shot by a fellow policeman
inside their office in Toledo City last Friday afternoon.
PO2 Marciano Suarez, Jr. was wounded in the left forearm after he was hit with the bullet accidentally fired by
Police Officer 1 Careby Clyde Alinsug, who is undergoing the Field Training Program.
The incident happened inside the Provincial Public Safety Company in Barangay Don Andres Soriano at past 4
p.m. last Friday.
PO1 Jamesrie Navarro, a fellow officer undergoing FTP, narrated during the investigation that Alinsug was
cleaning his service firearm, a caliber .45 pistol, when it suddenly went off.
The slug of the firearm hit the concrete floor and ricocheted to the left upper forearm of PO2 Suarez who was
standing inside the office.
Suarez, who is assigned at Pinamungajan Police Station, was detailed in the area for the expanded night watch.
The victim was taken to the Carmen Copper Corporation Hospital and was transferred to the South General
Hospital in Naga City for further medication.
PO1 Alinsug, 23, was arrested and detained while appropriate charges are being prepared against him.
Meanwhile, a man died after he was shot repeatedly by two men riding in tandem on a motorcycle along
Barangay Tuyan, Naga City at past 10 p.m. last Friday.
Police identified the victim as Erwin Barcenas, 46, allegedly a cousin of Carcar City Vice mayor Patrick Barcenas.
Barcenas was riding on a motorcycle driven by his neighbor Jonathan Sagalili, 42, bound from Naga Citys
Barangay Inayagan to Carcar City when a motorcycle without plate numbers and with two men onboard
attempted to overtake them.
As the said motorcycle came closer, the backrider reportedly shot Erwin five to six times. The victim told the
driver that he was shot prompting Sagalili to suddenly stop.
However, Erwin fell on the pavement while Sagalili, who survived unscathed, called for assistance.
The victim was rushed to the Minglanilla District Hospital for possible medication but the attending physician,
Doctor Mark Loel, declared him dead on arrival.
Police recovered five empty shells of a caliber 9mm, a deformed slug, a cellphone, cigarettes, and P350 cash
from the crime scene.
Police remain clueless as to the motive behind the attack, which they are now further investigating. (FREEMAN)
Airman dies in accidental shooting at Aguinaldo
By Alexis Romero, Reinir Padua (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 7, 2012 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - An Air Force soldier died yesterday after allegedly shooting himself in the barracks of
Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City.
It is initially presumed that it was accidental firing, Armed Forces spokesman Col. Arnulfo Burgos Jr. said in a
press briefing.
He said it appears that Airman First Class Jayson Reforsado, 26, accidentally shot himself in the head a few
minutes past midnight.
There is no reason to believe that he was trying to grab a gun from an enemy. Second, they (Reforsados
colleagues) do not see any reason for him to commit suicide because he did not confide any problem to them,
he added.
Police Officer 2 Julius Balbuena said Sergeant Julius Ferrer told them he was awakened by a gunshot in their
barracks.
Balbuena said Ferrer got up and reported the incident to Master Sergeant Fernando Asuncion. When they
turned on the lights, they saw Reforsado lying in his bunk bed with blood oozing from his head, police said.
Reforsado sustained a gunshot wound in the right temple, Balbuena said. The airman was rushed to the Armed
Forces Medical Center but died on the way.
The police and military are conducting separate investigations into the death of Reforsado, who has been in the
service for more than three years.
Cop faces probe for gun accident
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 09:12:00 03/31/2010
Filed Under: Police
A NEOPHYTE policeman is facing investigation after he accidentally fired his service firearm in front of the police
station of Talisay City, southern Cebu.
PO1 Rodel Montesa, a member of the Field Training Police (FTP), was about to turn over his M-16 rifle to another
policeman when the gun went off around 8 a.m.
According to the investigation, Montesa was checking the magazine when it went off.
The homicide section chief said that based on Legasis version of the incident, he went to see his wife at her
rented room at the NIC Apartment on Manrique Street in Sampaloc to convince her to return with him to
Tuguegarao.
De Ocampo said Legasi insisted that he had no intention to kill his wife.
He claimed he had brandished his .45-cal. pistol only to scare her into agreeing to come home with him, De
Ocampo explained.
The suspect further claimed that during his argument with Krizzia, a scuffle ensued wherein she tried to grab his
gun.
In that struggle, the gun went off and the victim was accidentally hit in the face, De Ocampo said, quoting
Legasis statement.
The suspect fled the crime scene in fear and only surrendered after he was convinced by his superiors and his
father, De Ocampo added.
MPD investigators earlier said Krizzia was a battered wife who was trying to get away from an abusive, jealous
spouse, and that she had left Tuguegarao for Manila to apply for a job and start a new life in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia.
Krizzia had been staying for two weeks at the apartment when Legasi, who posed as a new tenant and used the
alias Joshua Pacete of Mabalacat, Pampanga, caught up with her on June 6.
Mayors cop-son tagged in shooting
By Jennifer P. Rendon (The Freeman) | Updated September 23, 2014 - 12:00am
CEBU, Philippines The policeman son of Mayor Neptali Salcedo of Sara town in Iloilo was tagged in an
accidental shooting outside a Catholic church Saturday afternoon, injuring a civilian.
The incident involved Senior Police Officer 1 Ricky Salcedo, assigned to the Police Regional Office-6s Support
Group based in Camp Delgado, according to Senior Inspector Gilbert Archide, Sara Police chief, who declared it
as a case of accidental firing.
Salcedo was reportedly in front of the church when a certain Jonathan Cabileno made his way to approach the
former. The policeman was allegedly threatened when he saw Cabileno putting his hand on the jacket and
appeared to be getting something inside.
Salcedo then cautioned the victim to stop while pulling his hand gun. He claimed though that while he was
pulling his gun, it went off and hit the foot of the victim who was later known to be mentally challenged.
It was Salcedo who brought Cabileno to the hospital before he surrendered to members of the Sara Police
Station.
The mayors son however was not put behind bars after the victims family expressed no interest in pursuing
charges against him.
In a related development, Superintendent Louis Garong, RHSG chief, said his office was still investigating the
incident. It was gathered that Salcedo was recommended to be put on AWOL (absence without official leave)
list after he has not reported for work for about a month already.
Accidental shooting at NPDO
By Pete Laude (The Philippine Star) | Updated May 16, 2003 - 12:00am
A ranking official of the Northern Police District Office was disarmed and placed under the custody of his
immediate superior after he accidentally shot his subordinate inside their quarters Wednesday afternoon in
Caloocan City.
Senior Inspector Ferdinand del Rosario, chief of the District Intelligence and Investigation Division (DIID)
operations section, is now restricted within the NPDO compound under the supervision of DIID chief, Chief
Inspector Rafael Santiago Jr.
"The incident was purely work related," Santiago said.
At about 4 p.m., Del Rosario arrived at their sub-station on Langaray street, Dagat-Dagatan, Caloocan City, the
former office of the dissolved District Drug Enforcement Group, after a whole-day surveillance operations.
After a few minutes rest, Del Rosario instructed his subordinate, PO1 Jose Santos, to conduct his own sleuthing
operation using his own vehicle. Santos reportedly declined, claiming his vehicle was out of gas.
An exchange of unsavory words followed before Del Rosario reportedly got hold of his gun. This prompted PO1
Roger Giwagiw to immediately intervene and try to pacify the two police officers.
Del Rosarios gun, however, accidentally went off, hitting Giwagiw in the right thigh. Giwagiw was immediately
brought to the Tondo General Hospital for treatment and is now out of danger, Santiago said.
"We are now conducting our official investigation. Whatever will be the outcome of this, I’m sure that
somebody must be sanctioned," he said.DDEG was the scene of another shooting incident last April 2 wherein
Superintendent Reynaldo Orante, its former chief, shot dead his subordinate PO3 Eduardo Gaddi in an alleged
hostage-taking incident.