America may be the land of school shootings and mass shootings, but every day in this country sees a level of violence often likened to a war zone.
more murders in a recent five-month periodAccording to criminologists, gun violence has got worse. They say on average 23 people are killed with guns in South Africa each day, that is up from 18 people six years ago…They say that over the last 10 years they have found 70% of the missing guns – once found these guns are destroyed.
I guess we shouldn’t mention that last year, a number of robberies were reported at police stations around the country where hundreds of firearms were stolen.Claremont and Harfield Village, two security guards were shot and robbed of their firearmsSouth Africa’s murder rate sits at 39 homicides per 100 000 people, which is actually higher than many countries associated with drug cartels, like Mexico and Colombia.
According to research by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the global average murder rate is 6,1 per 100 000 people. Damian Enslin, who chairs the South African Gunowners’ Association, doesn’t think tightening up existing gun ownership laws is the problem: “It’s not a problem with civilian or private or lawful gun ownership. It’s a problem with organised crime getting their on the hands on those type of weapons…We already have good gun laws, we can have the best laws in the world but if there’s no one policing them it’s useless.”“We have to mop up the illegal weapons but once you’ve removed the pool of illegal guns, you have to turn off the tap.”
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