YOURSAY 'It looks like there are too many gunmen for hire to carry out assassination jobs for rival businessmen or drug syndicates.'

Arab-Malaysian Bank founder gunned down in KL

Ferdtan: Life is cheap in Malaysia. For a few thousands, it seems that hired killers are available to do the job.

In broad daylight, at 2pm, Arab-Malaysian Bank founder Hussain Ahmad Najadi was gunned down, and not in an isolated area but in a public area. Earlier, MyWatch chairperson R Seri Sanjeevan was also shot.

If this were to happen to any country, the inspector-general of police (IGP) and the home minister, not only have to take responsibility for the crimes committed so blatantly, they may be relieved from their posts.

There is no accountability anymore among our leaders and government officials. As long as they do the bidding of their master, Umno, they will be protected.

Vijay47: Serious crimes like this need an equally serious and immediate response. We cannot allow Malaysia's latest pastime of murder by shooting continue unchecked.

Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, please issue another order, the same kind as you issued to the gambling syndicate operators, to cease and desist forthwith.

As we all know, the kingpins had at once stopped their operations purely on the strength of your written order and perhaps, your trademark snarl.

In the meantime, the IGP can do something. I don't know what, but he can do something.

And to show that the government really means business about the assassination business, the former home minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, can walk around Kuala Lumpur wearing his cute "Don't mess with me" cap. That is, if he has come back from Lahad Datu.

TehTarik: No wonder Kuala Lumpur was recently labelled as the sixth most dangerous city in the world. Our police dismissed this news report as a pack of lies.

But reality shows that it is otherwise. Crime involving guns appears to be commonplace. A local newspaper reported that it only costs RM1,500 to hire a hitman. There is no doubt that the police have lost the fight against crime. Criminals are ruling supreme in our streets.

Mahashitla: It looks like there are too many gunmen for hire to carry out assassination jobs for rival businessmen and drug syndicates.

What has happened to our police intelligence? Are they too busy with the opposition that the thugs are now having a field day?

At such frequencies illegal firearms have been used to kill recently, we may soon become a cowboy country.

Odin: Malaysia is getting to be very similar to the United States of the late 19th century till as recent as the mid-20th century, when shootings of individuals in broad daylight in public places by the Mafia ‘soldiers' was commonplace.

The ineffectiveness of the police and the beginning of a breakdown in law and order are manifested now. These can only deteriorate, given the shady characters of those in power. Watch out, Malaysians. Malaysia is in for violent times.

CQ Muar: Kudos to Zahid and IGP Khalid Abu Bakar - the crime rate had indeed come down. Malaysia will soon join the elite countries come 2020 - a dream comes true, or is it?

Are we still sweet in slumber and not awaken to the truth and realities of what's taken place lately? Just how safe are we with such occurrences taking place so regularly?

We urge the respective authoritives to buck up - tackle the urgent issues at hand, instead of pursuing matters of less significance.

In particular reference to PDRM (Royal Malaysian Police), your attention is to safeguard the people's safety, and pay less attention to your political masters.

We hope you will get your priorities right, for politicians come and go, but the honourable duties and deeds endure with time.

How well PDRM performs rest with you, and considering the recent spate of cold-blooded killings this certainly doesn't paint a favourable picture.

Get down to business and prove us wrong. Be the law enforcer you should be, and not just lackeys of the Umno-led government.

Quigonbond: Umno has more and more blood on their hands. By blaming the recent spate of crime on the abolishment of the Emergency Ordinance, they are sending an unequivocal message to the criminals that they are impotent to act so that in effect, this is the chance more than any other time for the criminals to run riot.

Our newly-minted home minister and the IGP obviously haven't studied Sun Tzu's ‘Art of War'. If the police force is artificially demoralised, as far as the criminals are concerned, the battle is already won.

Now more than ever, the police need to retrain, reposition, and do real police work to catch and prosecute criminals.

On the back of this, we need the IPCMC (Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission) to ensure they are disciplined and not turn into bad hats or worse, criminal conspirators taking bribes.

We also need to immediately beef up humanpower and independent prosecuting powers of MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) and let them loose on those who are corrupted in the police force, bypassing a compromised attorney-general. The time for study is over. We cannot delay even a second.

FellowMalaysian: The recent spat of shooting incidences comes in the wake of the police's refusal to accept and implement the IPCMC.

Organised crime perpetrators are negatively influenced by such cavalier disregard of punishing police officers that it has emboldened them to carry out more crime. This is only a natural reaction of human behaviour of a criminal-minded person.

Hang Babeuf: This is what happens once the government and ‘Utusan' start declaring an ‘open season' for hunting down Shia. But will they take responsibility for the consequences of their divisive actions?

Dream on! Just unleash chaos, stand back, reap the political benefits. That is how they do it. That's how they like it.

BTN: My goodness, this country is becoming more dangerous by the day. With the police force we have today, the future really look bleak.

Very soon we may need to carry gun to protect ourselves. The police are too busy getting involved in politics and not doing their job.

Anonymous #40538199: It is very sad if the members of the political party that forms the backbone of the government believe that the only way to climb the party hierarchy is to bash the ethnic minority and frighten the majority, and sowing seeds of racial divide.

Nothing else matters. As if they believe that finding ways to reduce crime rate, boost the economy, improving our education standards, curbing inflation and corruption, and be ‘bersih, cekap dan amanah' will not help them to climb party hierarchy. Very sad indeed.

CucuMalaysia: Don't disturb the home minister. He is busy censoring ‘The New Village' film for elements of communism before Malaysia is invaded by communists. This is very important for internal security, especially with the Umno AGM coming.

AF McLaren: Friends, don't comment too much. You may be the next target. But I am surprised no one has blamed the shootings on the communists.

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