http://www.NewsTime.co.za en-gb Tue, 7 Sep 2010 11:55:57 GMT Copyright: (C) NewsTime 20 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 ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=1840 Peter Moss Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:08:00 GMT When it comes to guns and crime it is a deliberate minefield of misinformation, lies and suppression of the truth. The advocates of gun control are assured by their own moral conscious and emotional response that persecution of law-abiding citizens will assure their own safety. We are told gun owners even need protection from themselves and the ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=1704 Peter Moss Sun, 23 May 2010 17:45:00 GMT Safety - the word on everyone's lips is but an illusion when we run and hide from our responsibilities for our own safety. We think cameras, armed guards, pieces of paper, laws and police are there to protect us from predators who care nothing of any of these silly notions of safety. We assure ourselves that our responsibility is removed by listening ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=1630 Peter Moss Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:15:00 GMT Who guards the guardians indeed? Never have Juvenal's words rung so true as they do today in South Africa, a world, indeed a paradigm shift, away from ancient Rome. I note with trepidation at each opening of a newspaper yet more stories of police misconduct, of citizens victimized and sometimes brutalized at the hands of the custodians of law and ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=1526 Peter Moss Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:37:00 GMT President Jacob Zuma has apparently come into possession of a magic wand that he's going to wave over the ANC and public servants, phenomenally turning them into honest, hard-working and competent public servants. What a pity he has not thought to point this wand at the SABC and their constant references to the ANC as the "ruling party", ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=1405 Peter Moss Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:17:00 GMT "A world without guns is a world without violence", cry the gun-control advocates. What is the evidence? The world before the invention of guns was not without violence and those places where firearms are restricted are not without violence either. Giving up guns today does not translate into a non-violent world and those guns removed ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=1138 Peter Moss Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:31:00 GMT One might hope that being a Professor,<a href="http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/208-090-reasons-to-limit-fireararm-posession/" target="_blank">Pierre de Vos </a> would be a sane responsible and reasonable man. However his veritable deluge of emotionally charged accusations, personal attacks, overly liberal use ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=921 Peter Moss Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:46:00 GMT If Zweli Mnisi is any example of current police strategy and thinking, South Africa is surely in deep trouble. The news release of Nov. 11, 2009 says it all. Mnisi said; "The reduction of the number of firearms in circulation is an important part of the South African Police Service's strategy to combat violent crime." If the police ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=881 Peter Moss Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:00 GMT Some wag said to me; “President Zuma and the ANC fear law-abiding citizens with guns more than they fear vicious armed criminals who have no value for the life of victims”. Try as I might I could not fault his logic. Criminals who are given largess by the government will vote for the government and will not bite the hand, which feeds them. Unarmed ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=768 Peter Moss Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:13:00 GMT President Zuma's recent claims that too many guns are a “problem” and his sabre rattling antics of declaring war on guns, is misleading the public into believing the ANC government is doing the best it can to fight crime. Nothing could be further from the truth. While some choose to believe the emotionally charged graphic descriptions and ... http://www.NewsTime.co.za/rs_articles_contributors.asp?conid=13&recid=687 Peter Moss Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:20:00 GMT