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South African firearm rights blog. Always be an active participant in your own rescue.
Joined August 2014
Are civilian firearm owners a source of guns for criminals?. I looked at ten years of SAPS data to answer the question.
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It never fails to impress me that this is the face of one of the most dangerous and professionally deadly men that ever walked the Earth.
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It is wonderfully fitting that the one post I make where my engagement levels literally leave the solar system, it would be a post about Mike Vinning.
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You couldn't even leave your house to jog around the block without getting arrested. Sit down, inmate.
@h3h3productions Aussie here. We have gun regulations. Our govt didn't take our guns. I can still get a gun if I want. But thanks to regulations, we've only had 6 mass shootings since 1991. 30 years, 6 shootings. We still have our freedoms, and children's lives aren't being unnecessarily lost.
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AfriForum has done more for South Africa in 12 months than the government has done in 12 years.
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Have liquor in the boot of your car, and Cele is on you in a flash. Loot a liquor store in Durban, and he is nowhere to be found.
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The fact that people like Zelda Le Grange and Jonathan Jansen are telling @elonmusk to essentially “pay up” is confirmation that we have normalised living off handouts from wealthy foreigners as opposed to building our own wealth from productivity. It’s disgraceful.
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Taxi associations have done more to promote safety and security the past week than the Ministers of Police and Defence, all the Generals in the SANDF, and the entire SAPS management. I will henceforth refrain from swearing at them in traffic.
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We have the second highest murder rate in the world, and we only successfully prosecute 10% of all murderers. But perhaps if I look at the mountain outside my window I won’t hear the gunshots only 3kms away.
Some really terrible, horrible things happening in South Africa 🇿🇦 💓
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The SAPS failed to protect communities in Durban, but are now arriving in large numbers to intimidate and harass community patrollers keeping their neighbourhoods safe. A disgraceful exposure of the tyrannical nature of the organisation.
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@Jonathan_Witt The people on the left pay the taxes that sustain the survival of the people on the right.
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Handful of cops (both on and off duty) successfully defended Westville hospital from being overrun and looted last night.
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Dear @CyrilRamaphosa - rich countries aren’t preventing us from buying vaccines. You and your party stealing the money meant for it is what’s preventing it.
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If my income falls 20% short of my projected expenditure, I have two options:. 1. Find more work (be more productive) to earn 20% more; or. 2. Cut my expenses by 20%. Somehow the government doesn’t understand this.
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This may not be a popular opinion in SA at the moment, but perhaps before we go to war with Rwanda we should figure out how to ensure our airports have jet fuel and how to keep the lights on for a year.
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Stage 6 means 9.5 hours without electricity. You can’t run an economy like this. It’s a joke. People need to get the rope for this. Starting with every single cabinet minister and down.
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The government destroys your business with lockdown regulations and crippling load shedding, and now wants to tax you more to pay for a vaccine they should have money for, but will bail out SAA while they sit on their full salaries with all their bodyguards.
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Law-abiding citizens with guns have done more to protect innocent life the past 72 hours than our entire president. The gun debate is over.
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If you need to steal an exam paper when the pass mark is already only 30%, then getting a matric isn’t going to solve any of your problems.
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The idea that AfriForum is such an omnipotent organisation that they alone convinced the President of the United States to sanction South Africa is certainly flattering, but fantastically unrealistic. The ANC worked really hard for the attention they are now receiving. Congrats.
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Taxi associations stepping up to protect malls and businesses in the lowveld! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
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57 murders, 135 rapes, 395 robberies with aggravating circumstances, and 457 assault GBHs every single day. and where are the cops?. Keeping people off the beaches.
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Jacob Zuma did not destroy South Africa. It is an impossible task for one man. The entire ANC enabled and assisted him in raping our country. He is a product of the ANC, after all.
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SAPS couldn’t arrest a single violent EFF rioter. But they arrested and handcuffed a little old lady who dared defend herself against the mob. Fucking disgraceful conduct by the police. The SAPS are perpetuating GBV and aggression towards the elderly. Shocking.
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@natsfert People like you are America's worst export product: obnoxious, self-important, arrogant, and disrespectful. The whole world is not some province of the USA. You are a guest in Iceland - try to behave like one.
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The Azanist’s Paradox:. Can’t stand white people living in South Africa, but can’t stand the idea of them peacefully leaving either.
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Fifty Afrikaners are heading to America tonight in an unprecedented event. Most people are entirely oblivious to the significance of it. Especially the sneering laptop class. Perhaps because it holds up a mirror to their face, and they can’t cope with how ugly the reflection is.
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A lot of people who have never been shot at in their entire lives have an awful lot of bullshit to say about how this guy kept it together while taking fire from people intent on killing him. Those who have actually been there have a very different opinion. Strange, that.
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@ewnreporter Why are tax payers buying cars for ministers in the first place? They earn enough to buy their own. This is pathetic.
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NDZ has extended the National State of Disaster. Again. It is patent that there is no longer any “disaster”, and that the media is simply manufacturing speculative scare stories in order to assist the govt. in justifying the suspension of our rights and freedoms.
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Few things are more pathetic than prominent South Africans holding out begging bowls to @elonmusk and demanding “gimme!”. His success is in spite of this country, not because of it. It certainly says a lot about this nation’s insatiable entitlement complex.
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I just want to point out, for the record, that Ramaphosa is as silent as the grave while KZN burns, but he will be on TV tomorrow night to tell you he is murdering what remains of your livelihoods for another two weeks because you were naughty and didn’t listen.
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Paying taxes in SA is essentially the same as financially supporting organised crime and economic terrorists.
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Dischem doesn’t see people: it only sees their race. This is outright horrific. Nearly 30 years after the end of Apartheid, and a private company reduces us to “blacks”, “whites”, and “other-than-blacks”.
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Bro. Bruv. My guy. You actually believe this graph?
China-bashing is in full cry. China's covid zero tolerance has problems, but the truth is it has saved an enormous number of lives. In China 5,233 have died from Covid. In the US, 1,104,836 have died. In Britain, the govt sent thousands of elderly to their deaths. Whose freedom?.
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When I pointed out that this was going to happen a good few months ago, all the Ukrainian-flag-in-bio people got very upset. Where are you all now?.
Mexican TV reports that dozens of U.S. AT-4 weapons systems, which were originally shipped to Ukraine, have been purchased by Cartel Golfo in Mexico.
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The restaurant industry has shown that it has more spine and bigger balls than Big Tobacco, Big Alcohol, and the rest of Corporate SA combined. Go, you glorious bastards! Go!.
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The SAPS lost 1 000 000 rounds of ammunition that was in their custody in Durban Harbour. ONE MILLION ROUNDS. Enough to start a small war. And Cele dares project that civilian gun owners are the problem?.
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One of the EFF’s main attributes is that they litter wherever they assemble, and never clean it up.
Hierdie terrein was silwerskoon voor die optog. Dink julle hulle sal na die tyd die terrein opruim?
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If the ANC “gives back” our cigarettes and alcohol tonight, remember that they never had the right to take them away in the first place. Don’t celebrate. Be fucking angry.
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CR expresses "concern" about SAB divesting R2,5-billion. As if he had no idea that banning the sale of alcohol for the better part of a year would deal a devastating blow to the industry, resulting in severe consequences. The man is either a liar or an imbecile. Or both.
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The SAPS has informed restaurant owners that their protest planned for tomorrow is illegal, & they will be fined, arrested, and charged if they proceed. They must quietly sit and accept their starvation and loss of their livelihoods. The SAPS is an organ of oppression & tyranny.
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A song about killing people from an ethnic minority group is a call to violence against people from an ethnic minority group. It is so obvious that a child can understand it, but a judge cannot.
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You want to destroy the last fragment of the rule of law in SA? . Get the cops to arrest restaurant owners trying to keep themselves alive, but fail entirely to act against what is happening in Nkandla right now. If Cele wanted to expose himself as a coward, he has succeeded.
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It has become impossible to tell when the ANC is acting out of malice, and when they are acting out of stupidity.
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Some folk become utterly enraged that so many Afrikaners refuse to let our children "pay for the sins of their ancestors". Reject generational sin and generational guilt, and fight it. No amount of wailing and howling is going to change that this mental disease will die.
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The SAPS have a response time of over 50 minutes to get to a scene of a housebreaking in-progress or a shooting incident, but will be on the beach 24/7 to prevent people from sunbathing or surfing. This isn’t “mixed-up priorities” - it is a disgrace.
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“We need the private sector to help us rebuild the economy.” - Cyril Ramaphosa after completely decimating the private sector.
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At my local mini mall: handful of EFF zombies arrived. They were denied entry by beefed-up mall security and made to leave. This is how you protect your tenants from terrorists.
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@PLMyburgh Correction: “nobody is confiscating land” *yet*. I assume you understand the reason why EWC exists? It’s to take land (forcibly) from people who lawfully own it simply because they are white. So Trump is correct by preempting the inevitable outcome.
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On Wednesday there were 3 home invasions in JHB that targeted homes of gun owners. In each attack there were 3 armed criminals present. The defenders succeeded in fighting off all 3 home invasions, resulting in 6 dead/wounded/arrested criminals and no harm to innocents.
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South Africa has vastly stricter gun control than the US. We also own a mere 8% the number of guns per capita US citizens have. Yet our murder rate is 700% higher. Guns are clearly not the problem.
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The SANDF's soldiers murdered a man in his home, and they cleared the murderers of wrongdoing. South Africans are dead quiet about this. But a cop in the US murders someone, and we are outraged. This country has fucked up priorities. We deserve the oppression we get.
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If people in this country cared half as much about crime as they do about AfriForum going on a trip to America, this place would be significantly safer. And AfriForum would have less reason to go on a trip to America, ironically.
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The SAPS can send storm troopers to Clifton so they can muzzle sweep sunbathers and small children with 12-GA shotguns, but will do sweet fuckall against gangs killing children every day.
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The lady who defended herself against the mob in PE today and was then arrested and handcuffed has been released, the charges have been dropped, and her firearm has been returned to her. End of.
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Retweet if you think that every doctor that called this stuff “horse medicine” should be deregistered / lose their licence to practice. 😎🤘🏻
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We can find, arrest, and bring to court a man who superimposed the faces of Ramaphosa and Cele onto some naughty pictures in a flash. But we cannot successfully solve and prosecute 85% of murderers, 92% of reported rapists, or 97% of any trio crimes perpetrators.
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After a month of intensive effort from the SA corporate media and South African government (and the Democratic Alliance's trip to Washington) to "correct" President @realDonaldTrump's "misinformation", it is clear that the campaign has been an abject and embarrassing failure.
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What sort of sick, tyrannical bullshit is it where we blame the astronomical and colossal criminal negligence, failure, and incompetence of whole clusters of salary-earning government-employed imbeciles that resulted in a catastrophic security breach on…one fucking homeless man?.
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We built our own university for R300-million. Malema blew R150-million on a one-night party in a soccer stadium. Zero schools built since his promise to do so in 2019. Try to keep up, old chap.
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Call me a conspiracy theorist, but when the EFF failed at starting a war in Senekal why wouldn’t they resort to getting their followers to burn farms? They sang as much. They incited as much. This is not a political party, my friends: it is a domestic terrorism organisation.
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If you think Ivermectin (used by humans for 40 years) is more dangerous than a vaccine with a 9-month development cycle, then I don't really know what to say to you.
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Cyril is permanently shocked. Cele is obsessed with slips for cigarettes and wants to know who people think they are. NDZ is on a puritanical crusade on behalf of her friends in the illegal cigarette industry. And Tito sends us pictures of his pilchards. We are led.
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Lockdown destroyed my airline career. 12 years of flying medium jets killed overnight. Transitioning into other industries was a brutal process. What saved me was collaborating with likeminded individuals who extended their hands to help me. Without them, I would be lost.
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A good guy with a gun stopped bad guys with guns today. He paid the ultimate price, but they will never rob or kill again. He paid it forward. Because he had the Mindset, Training, and Equipment to fight. And he fought very, very well. RIP, Hero.
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They looted a blood bank. A blood bank. And you want us to have a rational conversation with these people?. Fuck off.
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Leon Schuster is a national treasure, and any Gen Z ninnyhammer who thinks they are entitled to feel offended by his old movies should take a teaspoon of cement and harden the fuck up.
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It appears that the SAPS may have lost 700 (that is SEVEN HUNDRED) firearms that Fidelity handed in to them. If true, this is an alarming scandal of terrifying proportions.
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Maponya Mall in Soweto still stands unmolested and unlooted because of the actions of law-abiding citizens with guns who protected it.
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The fact that out of all possible people, Fikile Mbalula was chosen to defend the insurrection myth on BBC Hard Talk is such an apt metaphor for the state of the ANC and the nation:. A bungling, incoherent, incompetent clusterfuck.
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The banks must understand that that nobody is going to continue paying a loan on a property stolen from them by the government. This isn't difficult.
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Tomorrow I continue business as normal, and the government can go fuck itself.
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Time to break my own silence on this matter, it’s been long enough. @IanCameron23 is the best chairman of the Police Portfolio Committee we have had. He is a dedicated, transparent, and highly competent leader and public servant. Ian deserves our full support. He is a close.
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Hey Cele and the ANC: the people who died in Phoenix would still be alive if the SAPS did their jobs. This is on you. The blood is on *your* hands. Own it.
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I’m not the smartest person in the room, but it is quite something to see so many supposedly educated folk fail to understand the words “Expropriation Without Compensation”. TL:DR it means the state can take your stuff without paying you a sent because it feels like it.
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Back in July the government claimed to have identified 12 individuals who were behind the so-called “insurrection”. It is now a month later, and absolutely nothing has happened. You are being played for a fool.
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Potential client asked me for my vaccination status. I told them it’s none of their business. Then they got salty because I walked away from the job because they cannot find anyone else at short notice. Dude, I don’t want your money if you are going to disrespect me. Good luck.
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The EFF are a result and product of the ANC. A bastard child born from the coupling of failure and corruption. #VoetsekANC #VoetsekEFF.
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I don't know what you call it when 2000 of your troops are surrounded and cut off by a rebel group in the DRC with no ability to extract them, but you deem it wise to then become confrontational with the United States at the same time?. "Hubris" does not seem to cut it.
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The ANC should just kick the WC out of the RSA, move parliament to Gauteng, and take the SAPS with them. We would all be happier that way.
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The ANC attacked the country. They are the perpetrators. They are not the victims, and they are certainly not the heroes.
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People snitching on restaurants for serving alcohol or allowing people to consume their own with their meals are a fucking disgrace. Little jumped-up wannabe Stasi informants who nobody loves, and will hopefully one day die alone, childless and miserable. Tsek!.
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Farmers are angry at the government for not only failing miserably at providing security for citizens against violent criminals, but also downplaying the seriousness of the dire situation and blaming the victims. This is entirely justified. End of.
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@AdriaanBasson James is 100% correct. Your conduct, and the conduct of your journalists, is disgraceful. It is genuinely pathetic to see how you are scrambling to defend publishing a hit-piece on a private citizen by comparing it to an investigative piece on a government official.
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If we published daily deaths due to poverty and lockdowns (and daily unemployment figures and number of closed-down businesses) the same way we publish COVID figures, there would be a bloody flaming nationwide panic and riot.
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Feeding the homeless without a permit was illegal. Walking your dog was illegal. Buying a garage pie was illegal. Visiting your grandmother was illegal. Having a braai was illegal. Buying clothes was illegal. Don’t tell me the government had anyone’s best interests at heart.
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We have now had 9 months to “prepare our healthcare sector” for COVID. Nine. Fucking. Months. And now the bastards have the audacity to threaten to close beaches. Again. And destroy what remains of the hospitality industry’s December holiday earnings. It is a fucking disgrace.
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South Africa according to the ANC: bullet trains, smart cities, NHI, and 4IR. South Africa under the ANC: children drowning in pit toilets, babies in cardboard boxes instead of incubators, rapists and murderers, endless rolling blackouts, and catastrophic urban decay.
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