Legal guns not issue

THE article in the Cape Times (November 1) on the SAPS losing 2 000 guns refers:

We South Africans are a nation of conditioned victims… angry at impotency in the face of urban terror but unwilling to do anything physically about it. We are fed the lie that in order to vanquish crime, we need to disarm ourselves.

The SAPS advertise in newspapers that firearms we use for self-protection are a threat to social stability and it’s easy for criminals to lay hands on them. They allege that the majority of illegal firearms are sourced from legal gun owners.

Yet according to the minister of police, the guns that have found their way into criminal lairs are the same ones that citizens handed in and worse, guns issued to the SAPS and SANDF.

Now an article in the Cape Times that confirms that other than the civilian firearms handed in that have been lost, the SAPS have also lost 2 000 of their own issued firearms.

These guns then sold to the people we are trying to protect ourselves from, by the people who are supposed to be protecting us…

Laughable irony if not for the dead and maimed fellow South Africans.

And Gun Free SA suggest that criminals can be reasoned with. No proven solution, only dangerous theories against historic human nature.

We listen to these professors that are unwilling to fight back or take a stand and convince ourselves that their suggested course of action is best because it entails no sacrifice on our part. If we stand back and let evil happen, do we believe that there will be no judgment against us? And the only proactive solution that the police think of is to disarm the victims?

Following the interview with minister Fikile “crush the balls of criminals, make them drink their own urine” Mbalula, in his mind, Vietnam is the best example of a successful gun-free zone. The same Vietnam where authorities restrict basic rights, including freedom of religion, speech, opinion and assembly?

Mbalula’s statements sweep aside firearms as legitimate self-defence by South Africans by repeating the lie that “Your gun is a danger to you because it can be used against you by criminals”.

He commits to removing guns from citizens and they “will increase the arms to the police force” The same police force that is pouring buckets of these guns into outstretched criminal hands.

Appearing tough on crime, the same police launch raids against private citizens who have forgotten to reactivate existing firearm licences?

History will judge our passive resistance to criminals. But it will judge harder those in power charged with protecting us who tie our hands while blocking our attempts to protect ourselves.

Criminals prefer an unarmed public. Why does Mbalula play the same fiddle? Alan Martheze Spokesperson Gun Owners of South Africa Parklands