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RevolutionJim
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Gun confiscation in South Africa, this is one way it is done.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry57.htm
quote:SOUTH AFRICAN GUN OWNERS AT THE CROSS ROADS
By Larry Pratt
March 22, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
There is a new pro-gun, pro-self defense organization in South Africa, and none too soon. Gun Owners of South Africa (GOSA) was publicly launched on January 26 in Cape Town. It was my pleasure to be on hand for the auspicious event.
South African officials, including Communist Party Member and now Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula just days before the GOSA launch, made it clear that the purpose of the new law requiring reapplication for gun licenses was to disarm the public of all legal guns. Nqakula should know since his Ministry is in charge of administering the Firearms Control Act.
...The socialist government of the African National Congress (ANC) is concerned that the 3,200,000 licensed gun owners in South Africa are seriously talking about not bothering to reapply for a license, because they see the government wants to disarm them.
...The Black Gun Owners' Association of South Africa has already put feet to that claim. Last year, BGOASA gathered more than 8,000 blacks outside the government buildings in the South African capital of Pretoria. When threatened with arrest, Khoele invited the black police to do to a black crowd what the white Apartheid police had done to blacks. No arrests were made.
...I actually met many gun owner activists in South Africa who had read Confrontational Politics by GOA's founder and chairman, retired California state Senator H.L. Richardson. People who have read and begun to apply the lessons of Richardson's book are not likely to fall for the rhetorical traps of the likes of Chief McBride. Certainly those at the GOSA conference who heard Chief McBride were not buying (with perhaps a couple of exceptions).
...The government's justification for targeting the guns of licensed gun owners is that gun owners have been too careless, and they have been the source of all the illegal guns in South Africa. However, none of the government types can explain why illegal guns are now more plentiful in England after the 1997 confiscation of almost all registered guns in the country. There simply are no legal gun owners left to blame, yet the police estimate that there are some 3,000,000 illegal guns in England. ("Only" 1,500,000 firearms were confiscated in 1997.)
As in the United States, gun banners are simply unwilling (and unable) to deal with the mountains of data that disprove their arguments. Maybe they are really not concerned about crime after all. If that is the case, maybe we are getting close to understanding why they don't want opponents to keep bringing up countries where gun control led to confiscation and was then followed by genocide. Do you suppose that is what terrorist-now-police-chief McBride has in mind when he wants no talk of Hitler and Pol Pot?
http://www.newswithviews.com/Pratt/larry57.htm
quote:SOUTH AFRICAN GUN OWNERS AT THE CROSS ROADS
By Larry Pratt
March 22, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
There is a new pro-gun, pro-self defense organization in South Africa, and none too soon. Gun Owners of South Africa (GOSA) was publicly launched on January 26 in Cape Town. It was my pleasure to be on hand for the auspicious event.
South African officials, including Communist Party Member and now Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula just days before the GOSA launch, made it clear that the purpose of the new law requiring reapplication for gun licenses was to disarm the public of all legal guns. Nqakula should know since his Ministry is in charge of administering the Firearms Control Act.
...The socialist government of the African National Congress (ANC) is concerned that the 3,200,000 licensed gun owners in South Africa are seriously talking about not bothering to reapply for a license, because they see the government wants to disarm them.
...The Black Gun Owners' Association of South Africa has already put feet to that claim. Last year, BGOASA gathered more than 8,000 blacks outside the government buildings in the South African capital of Pretoria. When threatened with arrest, Khoele invited the black police to do to a black crowd what the white Apartheid police had done to blacks. No arrests were made.
...I actually met many gun owner activists in South Africa who had read Confrontational Politics by GOA's founder and chairman, retired California state Senator H.L. Richardson. People who have read and begun to apply the lessons of Richardson's book are not likely to fall for the rhetorical traps of the likes of Chief McBride. Certainly those at the GOSA conference who heard Chief McBride were not buying (with perhaps a couple of exceptions).
...The government's justification for targeting the guns of licensed gun owners is that gun owners have been too careless, and they have been the source of all the illegal guns in South Africa. However, none of the government types can explain why illegal guns are now more plentiful in England after the 1997 confiscation of almost all registered guns in the country. There simply are no legal gun owners left to blame, yet the police estimate that there are some 3,000,000 illegal guns in England. ("Only" 1,500,000 firearms were confiscated in 1997.)
As in the United States, gun banners are simply unwilling (and unable) to deal with the mountains of data that disprove their arguments. Maybe they are really not concerned about crime after all. If that is the case, maybe we are getting close to understanding why they don't want opponents to keep bringing up countries where gun control led to confiscation and was then followed by genocide. Do you suppose that is what terrorist-now-police-chief McBride has in mind when he wants no talk of Hitler and Pol Pot?
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Perhaps it is crime they are concerned with. The crime against humanity called tyranny. They know who the criminals are...