The proliferation of guns is what is driving the crisis of violent crime and murder in South Africa. At least this is what we are repeatedly told in nearly…
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Disarming Victims Won’t Fix our Violent Crime Crisis
February 22, 2023 Be first to comment
South Africa is in the midst of a violent crime crisis. The latest crime statistics puts us on track for over 30 000 murders per annum, and a rate of…
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Gun Owners Are Not to Blame for Mass Shootings
February 8, 2023 Be first to comment
Over the past weekend the pro-crime victim-disarmament lobby again made the claim that licensed gun owners lose thousands of guns annually, and are criminal’s primary source of firearms. This…
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Situational Awareness for Dummies
February 14, 2022 1 Comment
Situational Awareness is perhaps the single most important component of Personal Security. Yet it is also perhaps the fundamentally most misunderstood and malpracticed one. Thousands of people become crime…
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First published by the Free Market Foundation on 30 July 2021. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Free Market Foundation regards the ability of law-abiding persons to defend themselves, their loved ones,…
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Two decades ago, the American intellectual and Thomas Sowell wrote: ‘It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those…
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The proposed amendments to the FCA of 2000 that seek to abolish firearm ownership for self-defence purposes is an unjustifiable overreach by an increasingly authoritarian state that has miserably…
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Fire Bheki Cele – Now is the Time for Ramaphosa to Act
March 16, 2021 5 Comments
The President must fire Bheki Cele. This publication is no friend of Minister Cele. When he first became Minister of Police in March 2018, we expressed significant doubts regarding…
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Preparing for Your Personal Gunfight – Fight to Win
July 9, 2020 Be first to comment
The internet is a very informative place. It is also entertaining, and often the setting for copious installments of the Theatre of the Absurd. Not least of these histrionics…
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Lance Sergeants Otto and James hardly ever worked together. These were the days when even a couple of full Sergeants (what the military called a Staff Sergeant) on a…