How South Africa Is Another Example Of Gun Control’s Failure

By Tom Knighton

It’s an established fact that there’s no nation in the world as free when it comes to guns as the United States. Our Second Amendment, written in the aftermath of a bloody revolution to break free of a powerful empire, solidifies and enshrines our natural right to keep and bear arms.

In other parts of the world, that simply doesn’t exist. Guns are something you need permission to own, something your lord and masters in the government bless you with for being an obedient boy or girl.

However, it never fails that someone will look to other countries for “proof” that gun control works. They’re convinced that entirely different countries with different cultural pressures, economic difference, and a whole host of other factors are a valid representation of what the United States would look like.

Then they ignore all the countries that have gun control and rampant gun violence. The latest? South Africa.

Gun Free South Africa believes the gun situation in South Africa has reached alarming proportions. The organisation which advocates for a gun free society, says the responsibility of ridding SA of guns relies squarely on the shoulders of the police.

GFSA’s Adele Kirsten was speaking to The Mercury following …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms