The Minister Secretary General of the Presidency, Giorgio Jackson, addressed this morning the reason why in 2017, together with then deputy Gabriel Boric, now President of the Republic, voted against the idea of legislating gun control lawreform that could finally be dispatched by the Congress on January 12 this yearafter 14 years of processing.
In conversation with the Mucho Gusto de Mega program, Minister Jackson explained that the vote against with Boric was “in protest”, because they were excluding something that they considered important in the process.
“The government at that time presented a project that it did not contain fundamental aspects for us, that later ended up being incorporated into the process of the project, which was mainly the theme of the ballistic fingerprint bank“, Held.
According to the authority, resources were needed to invest in having a fingerprint bank of this type, “because this allows us to better prosecute the crime than just the penalties,” he explained.
“When this (arms control) is approached only from the point of view of increasing penalties, it does not work, and that is demonstrated”, he added, indicating that Paz Ciudadana and civil society organizations reached the same conclusion at that time.
“They said, look: an increase in sentences, maybe, but this will not improve the prosecution of the crime. It will generate the feeling that more justice is being generated, more punishment, but will it solve the problem? No. And that response was unanimous,” she maintained.
Faced with this situation, he pointed out, and having “little power in Congress, and one is a minority bench – in that case there were two of us – what we said was somehow, a protest vote, because this was being addressed only from the point of view of increasing penalties.”
“Later, when a particular vote was taken, the majority of the project voted in favor,” he added.