President Anura Kumara Dissanayake deserves praise for his commitment towards eradicating organized crime in the country. In fact, this was one of his main pledges in his election manifesto. Admittedly, crime is on the rise, with at least three shootings reported each day. Periodically, in the past, there had been attempts to seize all illegal arms in circulation by the Governments of the day, but looking at the shootings taking place on a regular basis leads one to wonder if