At one time I was told that legal, personal ownership of a firearm was extraordinarily difficult in South Africa, but it seems that times have changed. That won’t stop the BBC, however, from trying to frame the problem as one of gun ownership as opposed to a criminal justice system that has largely collapsed along with the economy.
For the last six years Penson Mlotshwa has been carrying a gun with him wherever he goes in the South African city of Johannesburg. To the shops, restaurants and even the gym. His gun has become an extension of him as the country battles record levels of crime. “I’m not a fortune teller – I never know when I will be attacked,” the YouTube content creator told the BBC.
“Unfortunately, I’ve had to use my gun multiple times to protect myself,” he sighs, explaining how a man wanting his wallet pulled a knife on him after dinner one night. He drew his gun and made the mugger hand over the pocket knife, which he threw in the gutter.
So many great quotes in that story …
“Owning a gun is choosing to be an active participant in your own rescue,” he says. The 38-year-old, who also is active in the sports shooting sector, says the relationship South Africans have with their firearms is “complex and multifaceted”. “I see a gun as the ultimate representation of my ability as a free citizen to take the final responsibility for my own safety,” he says.
Yet the article bends over backward to BLAME the “white, colonialist, gun culture”. Huh? How about blaming the black African VIOLENCE culture … murderous culture? Nevermind … the gun-a-phobes will never change.
BBC, right? Absolutely no point reading the article, I can probably dictate it. Guns are bad, gun owners are dangerous a-holes with vigilante complexes and utter morons at the same time, only gun control can save us.
Hail lobster!
Remember when South Africa was supposed to be a model for the world back in the 1990s?
I worked with a bunch of expat SA’s, these stories are mild, by comparison. Safe rooms and car flamethrowers are a thing, like remote starters, in Canada.. They all owned protection dogs like Rhodies and Shepherds.. Most had some form of military training and owned arms.
You don’t call the police, they don’t come, you call a private security company, they respond!
How far do you think local crime trends will push the gun control conversation right here at home?
https://www.theaudit.ca/p/what-if-canadas-police-cant-keep
wont reply to it there.
but basically a trade off between the greater individual freedom and allowing people to defend themselves and the downside of more guns in both citizens and criminals hands, more deaths by gun, more accidents with guns, more suicides by gun because a gun is pretty quick and easy compared to in/by vehicle etc, with the eventual endpoint being the US.
I dont think Canada is there yet but its not my place to say .The occasional person waiting hours and dieing to a armed intruder is actually the better result then being similar to the US in numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
“The occasional person waiting hours and dieing to a armed intruder is actually the better result then being similar to the US in numbers.”
Well, except for the guy who dies. Not a great result for him. He’d have been much better off breaking the gun laws, wouldn’t you say?
Funny how these high-minded socialist policies always seem to come down to that. “We wouldn’t want to be like the United States, would we? Better that you peons die quietly. If you cower silently, and leave your car keys by the front door, perhaps they will pass you by.”
Well, except for the guy who dies. Not a great result for him. He’d have been much better off breaking the gun laws, wouldn’t you say?
he as a individual would be better off, But a country like the US which has 5x the homicide by gun rates of canada is worse off. On the other hand the fact that canada has 7 or 8 times the homicide rate of Australia is pretty good indication that guns are leaking over the border.
But there is no way to give the good guys guns to protect themselves and not have people shoot themselves and each other by accident or design and also give the bad guys even more guns.
You had better check some of your stats. The truth is that very few people accidentally die from gunshot, in either Canada or the US. Its interesting to check and see if the few who do die from accidents are in fact Catholics. Because the system has been claiming suicides as accidents for a couple of centuries, because you can’t get a funeral or buried as a suicide in the Catholics church.
340 million people. Remove five democrat controlled cities and America has one of the lowest gun problems in the world. Think Chicago as one of the five.
“Unfortunately, I’ve had to use my gun multiple times to protect myself,”
Canadians in general would rather see him dead, or at least in jail.
We all know that crime prevention has nothing to do with the gun grab. The increase in gun violence has nothing to do with legal gun ownership. But they still want to take the guns away from law-abiding citizens and they will keep lying, and the media will keep lying, to make it happen.
I’m one of a very few that are extremely inventive.
It’s mostly about keeping your attacker’s away from you and a weapon of some kind that is light weight and easy to hide.
Remember the whip?
Carrying a small piece of coated wire 6 to 8 feet long can do some significant damage.
Came across this quote a couple days ago. Seems appropriate.
If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you’re very pro-gun; you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous…) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small political elite and their minions.
Stefan Molyneux
It is looking like Canadians will soon need guns to protect themselves from their government.
Yesterday I was seriously taken aback when a colleague from Toronto who is a wealthy professional denizen of Forest Hill with a wide social circle of similar people told me: “a lot of my friends are buying handguns because they’re so freaked out by all the carjackings, and they want to shoot the people stealing cars from their driveway”.
Toronto? Seriously? I honestly was shocked.
Obviously they are not acquiring these guns legally — they’ve been driven to desperate measures by the socialist cabal running this once-great country. These are lawyers, engineers and doctors we’re talking about — not drug dealers.
I don’t want to live anywhere that you need to be armed in daily life, however if Canadians are going to keep electing Venezuelan-style corrupt/nihilistic socialists then we’ll have little choice: arm up or become a victim.
There was a time about 30 years ago when I lived in Toronto with a wide and diverse circle of friends. Everyone, literally everyone I knew who owned a house, also owned an illegal handgun and kept it illegally in the house. Common sense dies hard.