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    "id": 1062383,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1062383/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to comment on the Petition regarding licensing of firearm holders. This country has no proper regulations in terms of handling firearms. You do not even know whether the people who are being given firearm licences have been trained. We need basic training on the use of firearms. It should not be a matter of someone getting firearms but we do not know who trained them. What if people were trained by thugs and then they were handed firearm licences? Who qualifies to legally possess a firearm? Nowadays someone becomes a Member of County Assembly (MCA) and the following day he goes to seek a licence to become a firearm holder. What threat or danger is he exposed to which other Kenyans are not? The Committee needs to look at the whole question of firearm handling. It is not just this country that is having a problem with firearm licensing. If you look at what happens internationally, even in the United States of America (USA), there is a lot of misuse of firearms. Firearm licensing is a contentious debate. It may not be so contentious here. I do not think there are many Kenyans who would feel bad if people are not licensed to hold firearms. If you are to legally own a firearm in Kenya, there should be a serious threat to your life; and not any other imagination. For example, if I exchanged with Hon. Sankok yesterday, and he does not possess any weapon apart from his other leg, and now I want to appear like he is such a threat to me yet I know he is harmless. We need to be clear on the issue of possession of firearms. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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