Senator proposes bill that would allow citizens to carry firearms during their commute

Mexican senator Jorge Luis Preciado of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) proposed a bill that would reform the Constitution and the Federal Firearms and Explosives Law and grant citizens the right to bear arms in their places of work, on public transportation and in their own vehicles.

Senator Preciado urged his fellow congressmen to fight this recent spike in armed robberies on Mexico City's main highways, where assailants take advantage of the city's notorious congestion by robbing and even beating and raping their victims while in their vehicles, as well as recurrent robberies that occur on the city's mass transit system, through legitimte self-defense.

“The country is drowning in firearms, yet the vast majority of people who have access to guns are criminals or people who can afford private armed body guards. Average citizens can't afford them and aren't even legally allowed to own firearms for their own legitimate self-defense,” he argued.