Racist roots of gun control
extended to South Africa:
Police are intimidating South African gun owners and defrauding citizens of their lawful property, black firearm owners said on Thursday.
Chairperson of the Black Gun Owners Association of South Africa (BGOASA), Abios Khoele, said the police had “legalised” theft and fraud.
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Khoele said members had been subjected to discriminatory and arbitrary rejections of applications, unacceptable delays and a lack of service delivery by the police in relation to the act.
He said the Ministry of Police had still not entered into discussions with BGOASA on its grievances.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Jim Crow, Mark II…
June 30th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
That’s not roots, that is the present.
Not to say the roots aren’t racist, but racist or not, it should be opposed.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:14 am
The roots are that no Black could legally own a gun in South Africa (legally, they COULD, but the registration process was so arduous and so prone to wilful delay, that few bothered).
Now ALL gun owners there are in the same boat. Which is what happens when you allow the State to decide who can and can’t own guns.
Lesson learned, I hope.