Participating in giving opinions, the National Assembly deputies of Discussion Group No. 8 expressed high agreement with the necessity of amending the Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosives and Support Tools to fully and promptly institutionalize the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws, and overcome difficulties and obstacles in the implementation of current laws.
One issue that most National Assembly deputies, including delegate Trang A Tua, from Dien Bien province, are concerned about is the addition of highly lethal knives to the group of primitive weapons.
According to delegate Trang A Tua, the summary report of 5 years of implementation of the Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosives and Supporting Tools in 2017 showed that, out of a total of 28,715 cases of illegal use of weapons, explosives, supporting tools to commit murder, robbery, intentional injury, resisting law enforcement officers, disturbing public order..., there were up to 25,378 cases (accounting for 88.4%) in which the subjects used rudimentary weapons, knives and knife-like means to commit the crime. In particular, subjects using knives to commit crimes were 16,841/25,378 cases (accounting for 66.4%), many cases involved subjects using sharp, pointed knives with very high lethality (chopping knives, cleavers, machetes...) to kill people in a very reckless, cruel, and savage manner, causing public outrage, confusion, and anxiety among the people. In reality, the subjects are young people who form gangs to convert these types of knives, welding iron pipes from one to two meters long to resolve conflicts and threaten people. However, the authorities cannot handle this subject for the act of illegally storing and using weapons because the current law does not stipulate that knives are weapons. Therefore, the delegate believes that adding regulations on highly lethal knives to the group of primitive weapons is necessary.
The delegate further analyzed that highly lethal knives are dual-purpose tools commonly used by people in labor, production, and daily life. Therefore, in order not to affect people's use, the draft Law clearly stipulates that "The use of highly lethal knives for labor, production, and daily life purposes is not within the scope of this Law."
Regarding the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Guards, delegate Trang A Tua agreed to add the guard subjects to the Standing Committee of the Secretariat, the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court , and the Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuracy . According to the delegate, adding the above three positions to the guard subjects aims to promptly institutionalize the Party's regulations, especially Conclusion 35-KL/TW on the list of titles, leadership positions and equivalents of the political system from the Central to the grassroots level and ensure consistency, fairness, transparency in titles, positions and regimes, policies for senior leaders of the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front. At the same time, it is also consistent with the nature and importance of these positions in the political system.
Delegates also agreed with the regulation to narrow down the scope of security for conferences and festivals, applying it to conferences and festivals organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the President, the National Assembly, the Government, and international conferences held in Vietnam with the participation of key leaders of the Party and State. The narrowing of the scope of conferences and festivals as in the draft Law is a condition to better focus on implementing security work with focus and key points, ensuring effectiveness, consistency with the provisions of the Constitution, and in accordance with security and order conditions in our country.
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