Firearms and Crime

By Justin Stakes

South Africa -(AmmoLand.com)- Chandre Gould of the Institute of Security Studies and Adele Kirsten of Gun Free South Africa report on their research as to how guns fuel crime.

They allegedly interviewed a number of young people who each explained their tragic stories as to how they got hold of firearms and then learnt to use them in violent crime. Their stories surprise nobody: they are simply criminals who stole guns and then used them to commit robberies and other violent crimes.

They belong in prison and hopefully this is where they currently are. Knives and other sharp and blunt instruments contribute to many more crimes than firearms. These instruments are controlled as so-called dangerous weapons but arrests and successful prosecutions are few and far between.

Gould and Kirsten inferred that, “It was as if by owning a gun they crossed an invisible boundary between normal society and the criminal circles they moved in, signifying a permanent shift and untethering any bonds that restrained them”.

This in fact is the main reason why free and law-abiding people must continue to exercise their right to keep and bear firearms for self-defence and …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand