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MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Wednesday urged Congress to repeal a 1997 law to make careless gun owners more accountable, in the wake of the Aug. 18 school shooting incident in Zamboanga City.
It was the second deadly campus attack in the country in less than two months involving a student who was able to access and use a licensed firearm belonging to a member of his family.
In a press conference in Camp Crame, Remulla said owners of firearms used in shootings should be held liable for the “nonsafekeeping of their weapons,” noting that the guns used in the incidents — including the first in Tacloban City on June 22 that killed three students — were government-issued.
On Tuesday, a 14-year-old Grade 8 student (Grade 9 in the earlier police report) allegedly killed a 15-year-old Grade 10 student at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University Junior High School before turning the gun on himself.
