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Is SA gun control reasonable?
Monday, June 28, 2010
Reads: 747 | Comments: 4 | 1840
Reads: 747 | Comments: 4 | 1840
Is it reasonable for the police to expect that people should live a life in fear of criminals the police have not arrested and insist that people must comply with the criminal’s demands?
Is it reasonable to expect anyone to beg for their life and offer all they own in return for miscreants not harming them?
Is it reasonable to demand that people rely on the police for protection when the police have no duty to protect them and it is impossible for the police to do so?
Is it reasonable to expect people to believe that tenuous, vague and unproven unrelated statements are proof of anything?
Is it reasonable to blame the victim for the crime and subsequent crime, which uses goods stolen from the victim?
Is it reasonable to expect people to forfeit their rights to self-defence with the best means available because it is believed some unproven conjecture of public safety would be appeased?
Is it reasonable to rip property from the hands of citizens and not compensate them at all instead of paying replacement value?
Is it reasonable the stakeholders who were never ever consulted on the policy of legislation to just accept the legislation? In fact firearm organisations representatives were thrown out the office and told to go away by Safety & Security "we know what you want to say and are not interested" ~~ A. Cachalia Minister of Safety and Security.
Is it reasonable to expect firearm owners to help build the means to their disarmament and loss of property and also expect their help and support in their loss?
Is it reasonable that we as citizens are expected to support a law, which is built on a deliberate lie and will in fact endanger public safety.
There is absolutely no evidence to show that any of the many requirements of the Firearms Control Act can possibly reduce crime or the supply guns to criminals nor will it increase public safety. Six years and a reduction of more than 40% of civilian firearms have produced only a not unexpected increase of violent crime.
Is it reasonable to expect people not to complain and object to the manner in which the government has ignored and treated objector’s valid input to any law now and in the past?
Is it reasonable to condemn and castigate those who have only the interest of the public at heart and no other agenda when they warn and point out the danger and consequences of following the lies and distortions of gun control?
Is it reasonable to expect anyone to beg for their life and offer all they own in return for miscreants not harming them?
Is it reasonable to demand that people rely on the police for protection when the police have no duty to protect them and it is impossible for the police to do so?
Is it reasonable to expect people to believe that tenuous, vague and unproven unrelated statements are proof of anything?
Is it reasonable to blame the victim for the crime and subsequent crime, which uses goods stolen from the victim?
Is it reasonable to expect people to forfeit their rights to self-defence with the best means available because it is believed some unproven conjecture of public safety would be appeased?
Is it reasonable to rip property from the hands of citizens and not compensate them at all instead of paying replacement value?
Is it reasonable the stakeholders who were never ever consulted on the policy of legislation to just accept the legislation? In fact firearm organisations representatives were thrown out the office and told to go away by Safety & Security "we know what you want to say and are not interested" ~~ A. Cachalia Minister of Safety and Security.
Is it reasonable to expect firearm owners to help build the means to their disarmament and loss of property and also expect their help and support in their loss?
Is it reasonable that we as citizens are expected to support a law, which is built on a deliberate lie and will in fact endanger public safety.
There is absolutely no evidence to show that any of the many requirements of the Firearms Control Act can possibly reduce crime or the supply guns to criminals nor will it increase public safety. Six years and a reduction of more than 40% of civilian firearms have produced only a not unexpected increase of violent crime.
Is it reasonable to expect people not to complain and object to the manner in which the government has ignored and treated objector’s valid input to any law now and in the past?
Is it reasonable to condemn and castigate those who have only the interest of the public at heart and no other agenda when they warn and point out the danger and consequences of following the lies and distortions of gun control?
7708 Craig Cox
[ Friday, July 30, 2010 | 12:13:51 PM ]
NO IT IS NOT!A quick thought for everyone.Q - What did Hitler, Stalin, Mugabe, Idi Amin do when they came into power?A - Took guns away from civilians and controlled the media.Q - What was the result?A - Well over 30 million people murdered.Q - What is the ANC doing?A - Trying to take our guns away and control the media!What is the end game here?Are you going to accept it and be a victim?
7313 Kevin Duffy
[ Tuesday, June 29, 2010 | 7:36:41 AM ]
The reality that the Government has not produced a single piece of evidence to indicate disarming civilians will reduce crime and yet continue with these oppressive, if not tyrannical laws indicates that Government must have unannounced objectives. The public don’t remember that the ANC (A Chalia) stated in 1993 that they intend to totally disarm civilians. No greater gift will they ever deliver to the multitude of criminals in SA.
7308 Peter Little
[ Monday, June 28, 2010 | 3:38:37 PM ]
I concur 100 with what is written above. Yes Sir, you have raised the issues that many are either too afraid to raise or just couldn't give a rat's backside to voice their opinions in a public forum. We need more people like the author to ask these questions in more public places. Well done and I look forward to more insightful comments from you.
7305 Stewart Wood
[ Monday, June 28, 2010 | 2:12:28 PM ]
No it is not reasonable at all Peter - in fact it is, at best interpretation, the act of a criminally negligent government which cares nothing for the well-being of it's citizens.
The other interpretation however which many will subscribe to is that it is the act of a totalitarian government which is acting as such governments always have in the past - and that is to ensure by using the power they have to impose and enforce laws, that there can be no meaningful threat of opposition to anything it may decide to do, even when this might mean taking actions which are highly prejudicial to the citizenry and to the nation.
After all, opposition in Parliament only can go so far - and where a government simply rides roughshod over such opposition, as the ANC has frequently done, as it has also on many issues over the will of the people, then what is left but the notion of further action in resistance?Once the guns are gone all resistance is almost futile, and the threat of resistance in it's ultimate expression becomes simply an empty threat."All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party." — Mao Zedong, Problems of War and Strategy, Nov 6 1938 (published in Selected Works of Mao Zedong, 1965)
The other interpretation however which many will subscribe to is that it is the act of a totalitarian government which is acting as such governments always have in the past - and that is to ensure by using the power they have to impose and enforce laws, that there can be no meaningful threat of opposition to anything it may decide to do, even when this might mean taking actions which are highly prejudicial to the citizenry and to the nation.
After all, opposition in Parliament only can go so far - and where a government simply rides roughshod over such opposition, as the ANC has frequently done, as it has also on many issues over the will of the people, then what is left but the notion of further action in resistance?Once the guns are gone all resistance is almost futile, and the threat of resistance in it's ultimate expression becomes simply an empty threat."All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party." — Mao Zedong, Problems of War and Strategy, Nov 6 1938 (published in Selected Works of Mao Zedong, 1965)
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