Here is one of the Honorable Member's last social interventions Barbara Mazzali, regional councilor of the Lombardia (Brothers of Italy): “The only gun our doctors bring to the hospital is the scalpel they need to save people's lives. The motion presented by + Europe / Radicals e Democratic Party in the person of Michele Usuelli and Pietro Bussolati concerning initiatives to combat the possession of weapons in Lombard hospitals in order to protect operators and patients is totally without foundation and instrumental to make believe that the Italian doctors are running freely armed and ready to shoot! Let's go in order and clarify once and for all.
It is a fact that the self-defense pistol port is now dying out. The numbers speak for themselves and perhaps "our friends" they do not know not because they are ignorant, but because they are ignorant on the matter, that according to the data released by the Ministry of the Interior itself in 2002, the active licenses were 46.618, while in 2017 they became 18.031, that is two and a half times less. The subsequent data of the other three years have always seen a decrease in the number of gun license holders (today there are 14.700) not only in Italy, but also in our Milan where the offices of the Prefecture of Corso Monforte use a very rigid yardstick imposed by the Ministry!
Only those in possession of mirrored moral and criminal transparency, "clear" records, no pending charges, no charges against them, no relatives involved in legal proceedings and not even very old criminal proceedings filed also for crimes that do not hinder the regulation of weapons may request to have a firearm license. The legitimate defense and the legitimate use of weapons, therefore, must be wisely regulated, stigmatizing the inexcusable excesses, but without ever forgetting that the right to self-defense is an ethical imperative that the law must allow; is that the corresponding norms deserve non-reductive and non-distorting interpretations. Nor should we forget that the prevailing preconceived reductive tendencies are not so much the offspring of pro-life sentiments as subservient to militant “anti-weapons” prejudices.
In relation to which, without repeating the trite (but not untrue) adage according to which if "weapons are outlawed only the outlaws will be armed", it should be noted that today whoever legitimately uses a weapon to defend himself or others exposes himself to procedural risks no less serious than the physical ones created by the aggressor. Legitimate defense and legitimate use of weapons must be regulated and judged without allowing excesses. But, when the excesses are on the sidelines of the legislator and the judge, as well as being calm in identifying them, it should be able to be modulated and graduated in sanctioning them; in order not to crush with disproportionate effects the life of the citizen who, perhaps exceeding, has undergone the terrible experience (which will, however, mark his life forever) of having to hit an aggressor because in that case the state could not or knew how to defend him.
Motion 644 presented to the Lombardy Regional Council loses its compass in the premise relating to the Recommendations of Ministry of Health 8/2007 and subsequent "considered that" of a purely "hospital governance" nature, which have nothing to do with the final request for the "prohibition of armed entry into health facilities". This is a threat, devoid of any foundation other than that of wanting to pour false beliefs into public opinion on the possession and carrying of arms and on self-defense as a natural consequence. Finally, legitimate defense and the legitimate use of weapons are matters that must be addressed through a regulation that stigmatizes excesses, without forgetting that the right to self-defense is one of the principles of our legal system.
The rules that refer to this principle must be subject to non-falsifying and non-reductive interpretations. We are the European country with the strictest legislation on arms in both possession and trade. We have provisions you know from the criminal jurisdiction and from the administrative one. The main problem of our country is that often self-defense tends to be confused with the free arms market or with those who use firearms for hunting or sports use.
It should be noted that in order to have a constructive approach to the issue, the institution should have clear the limits and areas of jurisprudential intervention of the matter and then open a discussion table with the world of the judiciary, of the advocacy and of those who produce or protect companies related to the world of arms and of those who, among ordinary citizens, can lawfully request a firearms license and only subsequently - if they have certain requirements - can they obtain it and if they obtain it it is because a transparent person and respectful of compliance with the rules ".