Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
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Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
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Jamaica travel warning due to gun violence on island that has draconian gun laws for last 40 years. Life in prison for possession of a single bullet. Special secret gun courts.
Yet before emergency declared murder rate was 46 per 100,000 people.
I have a new place to suggest where gun control works besides Mexico, and it's an island too.
Apparently guns are smuggled from heavily gun controlled Haiti.
Trump's favorite spot.
Jamaica travel warning due to gun violence on island that has draconian gun laws for last 40 years. Life in prison for possession of a single bullet. Special secret gun courts.
Yet before emergency declared murder rate was 46 per 100,000 people.
I have a new place to suggest where gun control works besides Mexico, and it's an island too.
Apparently guns are smuggled from heavily gun controlled Haiti.
Trump's favorite spot.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
Sounds like another Schumer-hole country...
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
So nothing’s changed since I went there for work circa 2006/7 it would seem. Never understood the draw of that place anyway so no loss
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
More government and greater oppression. When you've got "secret" anything, somethings rotten in Denmark. I include the FISA courts in the United States and the Patriot Act in my scorn.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
ScottDLS wrote:Sounds like another Schumer-hole country...
It's nice to have a sitting president who admits the difference between Schumer and Shinola.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
Mexico had a record number of murders last year. 29,000 or so. It has a population of 127,000,000 or so. A murder rate of around 23 per 100,000.
Jamaica is around 45 per 100,000.
Both gun free countries.
The US is around 5 per 100,000 overall.
Going to Kansas City Mo. or Washington DC is as dangerous as Mexico.
Going to Baltimore MD or St Louis Mo. is more dangerous than Jamaica.
Jamaica is around 45 per 100,000.
Both gun free countries.
The US is around 5 per 100,000 overall.
Going to Kansas City Mo. or Washington DC is as dangerous as Mexico.
Going to Baltimore MD or St Louis Mo. is more dangerous than Jamaica.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
My wife and I visited Jamaica on a cruise. When we went through Jamaican customs when returning to the cruise ship they pounced on a pocket knife I had with me. It was a simple folding pocket knife. They threatened to arrest me for carrying a concealed weapon. I managed to grovel my way out of the event.philip964 wrote:Mexico had a record number of murders last year. 25,300 or so. It has a population of 127,000,000 or so. A murder rate of around 20 per 100,000.
Jamaica is around 45 per 100,000.
Both gun free countries.
I'm never leaving the lower 48 ever again. There is enough for me to do here.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
Well played Sir.ScottDLS wrote:Sounds like another Schumer-hole country...
I am not a lawyer. This is NOT legal advice.!
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
How dare you have a tool!anygunanywhere wrote:My wife and I visited Jamaica on a cruise. When we went through Jamaican customs when returning to the cruise ship they pounced on a pocket knife I had with me. It was a simple folding pocket knife. They threatened to arrest me for carrying a concealed weapon. I managed to grovel my way out of the event.philip964 wrote:Mexico had a record number of murders last year. 25,300 or so. It has a population of 127,000,000 or so. A murder rate of around 20 per 100,000.
Jamaica is around 45 per 100,000.
Both gun free countries.
I'm never leaving the lower 48 ever again. There is enough for me to do here.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
I'm going to guess that a $20 bill would have also gotten you out of any issuesanygunanywhere wrote:My wife and I visited Jamaica on a cruise. When we went through Jamaican customs when returning to the cruise ship they pounced on a pocket knife I had with me. It was a simple folding pocket knife. They threatened to arrest me for carrying a concealed weapon. I managed to grovel my way out of the event.philip964 wrote:Mexico had a record number of murders last year. 25,300 or so. It has a population of 127,000,000 or so. A murder rate of around 20 per 100,000.
Jamaica is around 45 per 100,000.
Both gun free countries.
I'm never leaving the lower 48 ever again. There is enough for me to do here.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
Actually, what got me out of trouble was Mrs. Anygunanywhere telling me to shut up and me doing so.Soccerdad1995 wrote:I'm going to guess that a $20 bill would have also gotten you out of any issuesanygunanywhere wrote:My wife and I visited Jamaica on a cruise. When we went through Jamaican customs when returning to the cruise ship they pounced on a pocket knife I had with me. It was a simple folding pocket knife. They threatened to arrest me for carrying a concealed weapon. I managed to grovel my way out of the event.philip964 wrote:Mexico had a record number of murders last year. 25,300 or so. It has a population of 127,000,000 or so. A murder rate of around 20 per 100,000.
Jamaica is around 45 per 100,000.
Both gun free countries.
I'm never leaving the lower 48 ever again. There is enough for me to do here.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
I used to regularly world travel for fun and sometimes for business.
Often, with a girlfriend, but sometime all by lonesome.
Heck, I even lived in few foreign countries for short periods.
I would do so now, with my wife, but the world has to heck.
I'm not leaving Texas.
When we speak of gun reciprocity, I get a kick out of all the commie U.S. states some would visit.
I'd rather go to Cuba, where it's safer than California if I were to go to a commie country.
Often, with a girlfriend, but sometime all by lonesome.
Heck, I even lived in few foreign countries for short periods.
I would do so now, with my wife, but the world has to heck.
I'm not leaving Texas.
When we speak of gun reciprocity, I get a kick out of all the commie U.S. states some would visit.
I'd rather go to Cuba, where it's safer than California if I were to go to a commie country.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
We stopped there on a cruise right after the Russians left back in the late 80's. There were 'ganjamen' everywhere and they followed us back to the ship, taunting us to give them money and/or buy some 'ganja'. Dunns River Falls was pretty neat but that was about it for us. That's just one more place that we ain't had no reason to return to.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
Ganja is illegal in Jamaica. Jamaica prisons are supposedly worse than Mexico.Oldgringo wrote:We stopped there on a cruise right after the Russians left back in the late 80's. There were 'ganjamen' everywhere and they followed us back to the ship, taunting us to give them money and/or buy some 'ganja'. Dunns River Falls was pretty neat but that was about it for us. That's just one more place that we ain't had no reason to return to.
Why would there be customs to leave a country, unless it was to catch tourists and make some money for the government, govt. employees and local lawyers.
Leaving the US I have been stopped only once to check if I was carrying a large amount of cash ( apparently he confused me with someone who was rich ) His eyes did get wide when I admitted I was carrying 130,000 lira. Which at the time was worth $300.
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Re: Jamaica: Travel warning due to gun violence on gun free island
In my travels to South America (Argentina & Brazil) there seemed to be a fairly strict "exit control" procedure at the major airports. In Argentina it was worse for residents, but still took around an hour for Business Visitors and tourists. Part of it was due to currency problems (back in 2012) since somewhat resolved. But they also kept pretty close track of visa compliance by taking a fingerprint upon entry AND EXIT that was tied to you visa/passport. While they were at it, if you happened to be carrying drugs or contraband weapons they'd get you too as part of the passenger screening. Bring dollars in they loved it...bring dollars out (in large amounts) NO.philip964 wrote:Ganja is illegal in Jamaica. Jamaica prisons are supposedly worse than Mexico.Oldgringo wrote:We stopped there on a cruise right after the Russians left back in the late 80's. There were 'ganjamen' everywhere and they followed us back to the ship, taunting us to give them money and/or buy some 'ganja'. Dunns River Falls was pretty neat but that was about it for us. That's just one more place that we ain't had no reason to return to.
Why would there be customs to leave a country, unless it was to catch tourists and make some money for the government, govt. employees and local lawyers.
Leaving the US I have been stopped only once to check if I was carrying a large amount of cash ( apparently he confused me with someone who was rich ) His eyes did get wide when I admitted I was carrying 130,000 lira. Which at the time was worth $300.
4/13/1996 Completed CHL Class, 4/16/1996 Fingerprints, Affidavits, and Application Mailed, 10/4/1996 Received CHL, renewed 1998, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2016...). "ATF... Uhhh...heh...heh....Alcohol, tobacco, and GUNS!! Cool!!!!"