Wise saying

George Washington grew up in a time when most of the citizens went about armed and the country was still changing. What he said is such a basic truth that all governments around the world should take notice of it.

For some time now the gun owners in South Africa have had this feeling that the government doesn’t want any private individuals to own any firearms.

The excuse given by the police is that they want to reduce the number of illegal firearms in the hands of criminals. Yesterday Beke Cele open his mouth long enough to change feet, and he suddenly said that the new law that self defense would no longer be a valid reason when applying for a firearm license, WAS TO REDUCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND TO KEEP FAMILIES SAFE!

Now I ask with tears in my eyes, how is it that the reasons for trying to disarm citizens here in South Africa keeps changing and is not consistent? Is Cele actually scraping the barrel for what he thinks are valid reasons to make it impossible for people to obtain firearms?

I can actually prove to the minister of police that the majority of shootings during domestic violence is caused by off duty policemen using their service pistols! Now why doesn’t he focus on sorting out the problems with his department first?

The gangster trouble in the Cape Flats where firearms play a major part, is laid squarely at the door of the police. Thousands of firearms that were handed into the police and were SUPPOSED to be destroyed, suddenly ended up in being given to gang members.

Deaths of gang members being killed with these firearms are included in the statistics issued of the number if people murdered by firearms. Sadly nobody reports on the number of firearm owners that possess firearms for self defence and DIDN’T use them at all.

 

SUNDAY MURDER

On Sunday a 62 year old caretaker of a small holding in Brits, North West Province, South Africa, was murdered.

He was attacked outside his house and it seems that only the house keys are missing. His car which was parked nearby wasn’t even stolen.

This is the second attack on farmers this weekend where nothing was stolen, but they were still murdered. The percentage farm attacks that result in arrests or prosecutions in relationship to attacks is very small. The ANC did away with the local Commando forces which for years ensured stability in rural areas. The local SA Police dont have the manpower or expertise or tackle farm murders and are left floundering away without concrete results.

The attacks on legitimate white and black farmers seems to my view to be focused on removing the farmers from their farms and then distributing these farms to cadres of the ANC and the members of COSATU and the SACP. Brings back memories of what happened in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.