Weapons (Guns) In Wrong Hands-Its Effects on Society

Weapon, is an instrument used in combat for the purpose of killing, injuring or defeating enemy. Weapons can come in the form of shock Weapon normally held in hand examples of such gadget includes club, mace and sword. Weapons can also come in a form of missiles and example includes rifle, pistol and cannon and last the last group of weapons is the conventional and unconditional weapons and examples are atomic bomb, thermonuclear and grenade.

The wisdom behind manufacturing weapons, is for individuals and states to use in facilitating works or to protect but when such instrument land in Wrong hands can be used in negative ways, for instance in destroying state, killed individuals or cause severe harm to individual or group of people. This article seeks to find out how come weapons get its way into the hands of Wrong people and the way forward? Ghana is embedded with beautiful laws, not only in the area of weapons but other areas of national concern but the problem we always confront is on paper such laws lookks fabulous but when it comes to applying such laws zero. The country, Ghana has arms and ammunition Decree 1972 (NRCD9) which was amended by ACT 2001 (ACT 604)2. This law is loaded with sections on how to register guns, method deployed in registering guns, how guns can exchange from one hand to another, who qualifies to import or export guns, who qualifies to possess guns and many more sections.

The state Ghana has witness a lot of incidents as a result of weapons being held by Wrong people and in such cases, it has led to death or victims undergoing severe injuries. A young lady by name Eunice kessewa was hit by stray bullet and this led to her untimely death on 22 August 2021 at Free Town an area within a community of Nima, suburb of Accra. According to eyewitnesses who happens to be the brother of the late Eunice, on that faithful day he was escorting the sister from work as they got to that spot there was ongoing wedding ceremony and the friends of the groom and bridegroom were firing guns indiscriminately, unfortunately one the bullet hit the late heaps and find its way through the stomach and the rest is history. There was another sad event that happens in Zuarungu a suburb of Bolgatanga were two police officers were gun down by armed robbers on 15 December 2021. Similar to what happens in Zuarungu, another case was the state lost three police officers in Walewalle on broad daylight robbery which resulted in exchange of gun fire between the police team and the robbers on 21 Oct 2021.

In my conclusion remarks, the country Ghana has laws which when religiously followed and applied will help to mitigate the problem of guns finding its ways into wrong hands and also a tougher penalty should be given to people who possess guns without passing through proper channel of gun acquisition. Accomplices who act as catalysts, either within the security or ministries must be allowed to face the rigorous of the state laws when find guilty of aiding wrong people to possess guns, such victims must be made to resign or be sack from their job to discourage others within state institutions indulging in similar practices.

Michael Yiran