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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen.
Finally, my thanks to the rapporteur and the people who worked with her.
In today’s society with all its dangers, all attempts to increase people’s security are whole-heartedly welcomed. Security is a prerequisite for all freedoms. Security is a basic quality of a democratic society.
Fresh in all our minds is the Jokela School massacre, which was not the first example of such an occurrence. We must, however, ensure that it is the last.
According to World Health Organisation data, interpersonal violence and suicide rank respectively third and fourth worldwide among people aged 15–44 years as the leading causes of ill-health and premature mortality.
A large proportion of these occur through the use of firearms. The easy availability of firearms has been associated with higher firearm mortality rates.
It is most welcome that the European Union understands the need to shift the focus to the specific threat.
I would like to go into one more aspect. Specifically, since the transposition of the Directive in 1993, the internet has developed considerably and become an electronic market place.
The Directive's aim of stopping trade in firearms can only be achieved, therefore, if internet trading is included in its scope.
I am therefore of the view that the Member States of the European Union must react in an appropriate and consistent manner to the situation regarding the firearms in question. To do so we need harmonised preventive and punitive measures and we need to integrate them into a single policy."@en1
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