[WAGCEVP]

stolen from the SA forum :)
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The following shooting incident mentioned on News24. Will someone please tell
me how the GFZ saved anyone today.

Regards

Evan

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May 30 2003 01:44:13:030PM (News24.co.za)

A pupil has been shot at a Johannesburg high school after three youths tried to
steal his cellphone.

Johannesburg - Three boys, all aged 17, have been arrested in connection with
the shooting of a 19-year-old pupil at a secondary school in Gresswold,
Johannesburg, police said on Friday.

Superintendent Chris Wilken said the incident occurred early on Friday morning
following an alleged attempt by the three, one of whom was armed, to rob the
19-year-old of his cellphone. He said two of the boys were pupils at the
school, the third was a former pupil.

In the course of the scuffle the 19-year-old was shot in the buttocks. The
other three were overpowered by their peers and handed over to the police. A
Norinco 9mm pistol - stolen in October 2001 in Alexandra - was recovered,
Wilken said.

The wounded boy was taken to hospital and was in a satisfactory condition. The
three boys are in police custody and face charges ranging of attempted murder
and possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.

Police Assistant Commissioner Oswald Reddy condemned the incident.

"Children are the future leaders of our country and no society can tolerate
incidents where innocent school children in a learning environment become the
victims of criminals."

He said station commissioners throughout Johannesburg had been tasked with
visiting schools in the region to "eradicate all crime".


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[nemesis]

bummer

[atek3]

norinco 9mm what is that?

[KP95DAO]

SA is not "gun free". That is not the problem, the problem is that they are rife with thugs and those who dare not go after them.

As a friend of mine, who was there in the early 70's, would say, "This would not have happened under the old regime". And so they stew in juices of their own making.

[SquirrelNuts]

atek3,

Norinco is a Chinese manufacturer/importer. They make copies of popular firearms. I would be willing to bet it was a BHP or something.

-SquirrelNuts

[KP95DAO]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=15&art_id=vn20030602102217432C844578&set_id=1




Give up your gun, say cops

June 02 2003 at 10:22AM




By Johan Schronen


With guns still the weapon of choice for the soaring murder rate in the Western Cape, police have announced a month-long amnesty for people to hand in illegal guns.

This follows a Medical Research Council survey which highlighted a direct link between the rising murder rate and guns as the main cause of unnatural deaths.

The MRC found 56 percent of fatal shootings in the Peninsula were in Tygerberg and six Cape Flats areas: Khayelitsha, Philippi, Nyanga, Mitchell's Plain, Gugulethu and Manenberg.

Under Operation Sethunya - the campaign to rid communities of firearms - police have announced the amnesty to start on July 1.

'We're taking those guns out of circulation'
An extensive audit of state-owned weapons was expected to be launched in the Western Cape this week as part of the operation.

Police are already confiscating up to 200 firearms a month.

Provincial firearm control head Jacques van Lill said a clampdown on guns was also focusing on those legally owned by people who were unfit to possess firearms.

"As we've promised, we're taking those guns out of circulation as fast as we can and the community will soon see the fruits of our actions," said Van Lill.

The probe by the MRC was based on the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS).

The report said suburbs where firearm killings were prevalent were also low income, and notorious for crime and gangsterism.

Altogether 42 percent of gun-related killings occurred in homes or residential complexes, in the street, in informal settlements, in shops and on open land and beaches.

The MRC study found the murder rate in Cape Town had increased by 15 percent between 1994 and 2001.

In 1994 there were 462 fatal shootings, making up 26 percent of all killings, but in 2001 such killings accounted for 46 percent of 2 436 murders reported in Cape Town.

The numbers of killings which did not involve guns remained stable, with 1 327 cases in 1994 and 1 314 in 2001.

Cape Town's latest recorded murder rate, at 88 per 100 000, is the highest in the country.

The survey assessed and collected data from 32 state mortuaries in maily urban centres around the country.

The MRC study found that about 90 percent of fatal shooting victims were male - and about 55 percent were Africans and 42 percent coloured.

And 91 percent of gun killings were of people in the "economically active" age group from 15 to 44.

Liquor was involved in 42 percent of killings involving perpetrators whose alcohol blood count was known.

A large percentage of fatal shootings (43,7 percent) occurred on Saturdays and Sundays.
Gun-related killings peaked during June and December, in the holiday seasons.

Comparing the murder rates of five South African cities, including Cape Town, in 2001, East London had the highest but its rate of firearm killings (29 per 100 000 population), was much lower than Durban's (48 per 100 000 population) and Cape Town's (40 per 100 000 population).