"Alarmed father accidentally stabs son to death"; "Gangster with bow and arrow kills pupil in schoolyard from the street"; "12 mourners beaten to death in minibus taxi on main road". All highly improbable incidents anywhere in civilised society, but change the weapons deployed to firearms and we have three of the shocking headlines that have beset our gun-toting country in the past month. After the slaughter on the R74 last weekend, our police minister mentioned, in the small print, a tightening up on control of gun licences, together with an amnesty period. Don’t waste your time, Mr Cele. Get real, get a grip and ban all private ownership of handguns and automatic weapons, and severely restrict licensing of hunting rifles. Then, after a brief amnesty period, equip police vehicles (and police stations) with crushers for police officers to instantly and permanently decommission illegal weapons discovered through "stop and search" procedures, then arrest the possessor. As the US regul...
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