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South Africa's gun control.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
In respect to your article "No Gun? Use a Spear" (April 18, 2005), I think some clarity may be in order. South Africans (and apparently the rest of the world) have been given to believe that the new gun laws in South Africa are to control guns. This is simply not true.
Since the enactment of the new law on July 1, 2004, according the head of the Firearm Registry, only 100 firearm licences have been granted to the general public.
During the six-year period up to December 2003, the Registry was issuing over 157,000 licences on average per year.
Prior to this new legislation (in reality a de facto gun ban), we know that probably the most indicative crime statistic--the murder rate--went down every year over six years during a period where legal gun ownership increased, mainly (95%) to black applicants, in effect giving more credence to Dr. John Lott's famous line: "More [legal] Guns = Less Crime." This is obviously true no matter which sector of society's hands legal guns are in, black or white.
Included in the new law is a requirement that applicants must pass a comprehensive written test on the actual new law itself. This, in a country where the ...
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