Personal Armament Is Easy, Impunity Is Common

Upon the release of the person who wounded a child who was playing in the park with a gun, Beyza Kural from bianet interviewed Sevim Ertremur and Ayhan Akcan from Hope Foundation about personal armament and impunity.

Ayhan Akcan said that 90 percent existing personal guns are unregistered. “Our researches show that there are two and a half million registered guns, which means total number of guns reaches to 20 million,” he stated.

According to official statistics, number of convicted people were 187 thousand 730, 4 thousand 164 of them are from crimes including knives and firearms.