Plan Colombia has stopped the huge drug cartels from creating a criminal element that competes with the legitimate government.

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For the non criminal element we then have to rely on the states and local Governments to protect us.

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Some of this criminal element has ended up in Honduras, where, like most Central American countries, law enforcement has few resources to fight it.

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Banning these semi automatic weapons only takes them out of the 6% of people who commit violent gun crimes leaving 84% of the criminal element still in control of them.

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If it is the latter, this constitutes a serious element of injustice when compared with criminal offences.

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