By Executive Decree 707, the President of the Republic reformed the “Law on Production, Import, Export, Commercialization and Possession of Weapons, Ammunition, Explosives and Accessories” and its regulations. The most important authorization is that we can have and carry weapons, fulfilling the conditions. This caused a debate among eagles who are in favor because they will be able to defend their lives and their families, since the state does not guarantee; pigeons who are against because the state shifts its responsibility to the citizens; and owls who do not publicly express who they stand for. While hyenas, with or without the law, continue to pull the killer trigger.

Do we have a social contract with the state? According to Hobbes, in his work Leviathan (1651), we are equal before nature, endowed with the instinct of preservation in constant war; a state with central power, justice, supreme and invincible power is necessary, before which we renounce natural violence in order to live in peace. For John Locke, in his work Two Essays on Civil Government (1690), no one can dispose of his own existence or the existence of others, there is equality in rights and the judicial system must judge anyone who violates the right to exist of another.

In his work The Social Contract (1762), Rousseau concluded that people voluntarily acknowledge the sovereignty of the king, renouncing their state of “natural innocence”, and adhering to the rules of society for mutual benefit. In 1919, Weber defined the state as an institutional association that exercises a legitimate monopoly of violence for its defense and security and takes over justice.

The four agree that there is a social contract in which citizens sacrifice their natural right to defend their lives in favor of a powerful state that has the law and a monopoly on guns.

Armed or unarmed, we are uncertainly witnessing, divided and uncontrolled, the deterioration of the democratic social contract.

Decree 707 reforms the social contract, declares that the state is overtaken by the act of crime that takes the life of any citizen, and that the monopoly on weapons is shared. Eagles are ready to take up arms to defend their lives and the lives of their loved ones, even knowing that they may die in a confrontation with a criminal and there will be no justice, but if they kill the criminal, the justice system in question could be locked up in prison.

This group includes those who suffered physical, psychological or economic violence in their homes, vehicles, business premises, streets, etc.

The pigeons express their opposition to the decree and the maintenance of the traditional social contract under the protection of the judiciary, the armed forces and the police. This group includes certain authorities of higher education centers, experts and others; perhaps because their activities are less exposed to violence. Owls move silently in any direction, hunting or scavenging. Hyenas describe themselves.

With or without weapons, we are witnessing uncertainty, division and the inability to manage the deterioration of the democratic social contract. Do we need the lion king and bring out our survival instinct? (OR)