(South Africa) Last-ditch protest against gun laws

[gunsmith]

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/national.aspx?ID=BD4A230570
Last-ditch protest against gun laws
Chris van Gass
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Cape Correspondent

CAPE TOWN — Picketers lined up outside Parliament yesterday displaying placards urging the abolition of gun control by government as envisaged in its Firearms Control Amendment Bill.

Yesterday was the last day for comment by interested parties on the bill. The demonstration by the Gun Owners of SA organisation (Gosa) formed part of efforts to have the firearms law scrapped.

In June, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula made an about turn on existing gun licences, including in the legislation a clause that insists all existing legal guns be relicensed, replacing an earlier suggestion of a national audit of all legal firearms. Nqakula and gun owners have since been at loggerheads over the proposed legislation.

Gosa’s Peter Moss said the legislation should be scrapped and a constitutional amendment “guaranteeing the right of citizens to protect themselves” should be made.

Moss said government was determined to follow the “folly” of England, Jamaica, Canada, Australia and Brazil, which had gun control legislation in place, rather than that of the US, “which currently enjoys the lowest crime levels in memory”.

He said government had budgeted R2,1bn to “drastically” reduce the number of firearms held by citizens.

“Not one cent will have contributed to the safety of citizens, solving crime or the punishment of criminals,” said Moss.

 

[Psssniper]

Some good friends from South Africa just left after staying with us for three weeks. This was their second trip here, the first was detailed here http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=171770
Sadly it seems that they are on the road to losing all their guns. As for the "relicensing" my friend said not one license has been renewed and they are all expiring thus making the guns and their owners "law breakers"
I really wanted to give him my old 6" Python as he has more fun with that thing than anyone, but he said that it would be immpossible to take it. Somewhere I have the complete text of the new laws that are being implemented, draconian doesnt even begin to describe it.

 

[longeyes]

God help South Africa.

 

[Psssniper]

Heres a site to read up on SA gun stuff

http://saga.org.za/

 

[LAR-15]

I hear that ZA wants to even license regulate blackpowder muzzle loaders (unlike the US and even France)

 

[ArmedBear]

Maybe we should send some CARE packages of Cosmoline and sealed ammo.

Bottom line: the government wants to see all the Whites leave the country or be killed off. That's the real objective. No one could possibly imagine that the criminal element will pay a bit of notice to new firearms licensing laws, any more than they did to the old ones.

While, as in Zimbabwe, I can understand the emotional motivation behind ant-white sentiment, this will be VERY BAD for everyone, of any color, living in what will become a third-world hellhole. Only a few elites with government connections will be allowed to defend themselves, and self-defense in South Africa, as I understand it, is something you're much more likely to actually need to do than in most places in the US. In Zimbabwe, starvation has replaced plenty.

The ONLY reason I can imagine for ZA to do this is to accomplish the complete subjugation of the law-abiding population with any resources for the government to steal.

With the history of the place, there may well be less sympathy for White South Africans than German Jews in the '30s and '40s. Actually, in Hitler's day, Jews were demonized worldwide, including here in the United States, by some quite prominent figures like Henry Ford, who first published his racist diatribes in the Dearborn Independent newspaper in Michigan. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/ford.html

Today, white "imperialists" are demonized worldwide just the same, in nearly all of our universities here in the US and throughout the Western world. The problem is, none of these people actually colonized anything or conquered anyone. It is their RACE that people demonize, because that is the primary if not sole connection between them and the long-dead European colonizers of a couple centuries ago.

I pity the poor bastards whose families have lived in ZA for generations. White or black, it is their home.

 

[zeke1312]

Actually, looking at the African Continent, the whole place is in conflict, always was and will be. Blame? Primarily whites, some think so. Zimbabwe is a prime example of "eating the corn, not planting it". They now reap what they have sewn. Yes, whites have inflicted much on the continent. In many places, if the whites never came, the locals would still be smashing corn between two rocks.