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CRY, THE BETRAYED COUNTRY South African Rape Prevention
& Support Group Maintains ©2001 by David Codrea KeepAndBearArms.com -- A few
weeks back, Correspondent Bob Simon, of CBS News, broke the following horrendous
tale of widespread individual brutality and social breakdown in South Africa: "Every 26 seconds a woman is raped in South Africa. According to
Interpol statistics the country is the rape capital of the world ... In the
seven years since the end of apartheid, law and order has broken down and
violent crime is raging out of control. Fifty-two thousand cases of rape were
reported to the police last year." South Africa has been a country of many changes over the past seven years.
Among those changes has been the introduction of nationwide citizen disarmament
laws. South Africa has become a Sarah Brady Paradise, with licensing and
registration of those guns the bureaucrats MAY (or may not) allow its subjects
to keep after convincing the masters that "self-defence requirements ...
cannot be met by any other means." Along with these mandates are a host of
other firearm control, as opposed to crime control, laws that Maluleke George,
chairman of the Portfolio Committee on Safety and Security, admitted
"[have] nothing to do with criminals. It is a waste of time to make laws to
stop criminals. The purpose of this bill is to make it as difficult as possible
for people to own licensed firearms and to reduce the number of firearms already
licensed." It is a waste of time to make laws to stop criminals, but not a waste to
control law-abiding citizens' access to defensive tools? This is the official
position of the government's Safety and Security Committee! Extrapolate and make
the generality specific, and what Mr. George has said is "it is a waste of
time to make laws to stop [rapists]. The purpose of this bill is to make it as
difficult as possible for [potential rape victims] to own licensed firearms
" And, true to Mr. George's revelation, what the new law mandates,
according to an analysis by the New National Party, is: "No firearm may be used for self-defence unless licenced for that
purpose (s16, s17, s18, and s19). If under personal attack whilst only in
possession of a firearm licenced for a non-defensive purpose, the individual
would, in fact, be committing an offence by using it to defend
him/herself;" It is no wonder that crime in "the beloved country" is out of
control. Still, there are groups that arise whenever there is an issue or a
need, and "Speak Out!" http://www.speakout.org.za/
is an organization that has risen to prominence as a women's resource when it
comes to rape, its prevention, and actions to take in its aftermath. But a visit to their site is perplexing, troubling: there is advice on how to
protest to politicians about medical care; how to prompt your children to
testify; how to pick your men more wisely; how to submit to rape; how to deal
with HIV; how not to give the rapist the pleasure of fighting him; how to report
a rape after it happens... but NOTHING about how to keep the rape from happening
in the first place by assuming personal responsibility for self defense, by
having the ability, the training and the MEANS to repel a monster who could
otherwise easily overpower his intended victim. The operative instructions from
Speak Out! seem to be: You have no choice but to be a victim. Should you
survive, here are handy tips on how to complain after the fact, and deal with
whatever injuries or diseases result. And because you do not stop your rapist,
he learns that he is free to do so with impunity, is free to rape again. In short, there is nothing on the Speak Out! site about the most effective
means of rape deterrence, armed defense, with guns. Perhaps they just don't know that their advice is wrong-headed, and
practically guarantees more attacks and rapes and murders of South African
women? Perhaps, if provided with some facts, they would be curious, wish to
learn more, and find new alternatives and techniques that they could share with
South African women to improve their safety and security? I wanted to find out,
and sent the following to Speak Out!: From: David Codrea Dear Speak Out!, In re your website: According to CBS News, a woman is raped in South Africa, on average, every
26 seconds. Don't you think South African women who depend on your site for guidance
deserve to be told about their right to self-defense? Don't you think they deserve being told how rapes decreased by 88% in
Orlando, FL, http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa109.html
after police began training women in defensive firearms use? Don't you think they should know about the groundbreaking research
conducted by Professor John Lott of Yale University, whose book, More Guns,
Less Crime, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493636.html
irrefutably demonstrates that "[s]tates with the largest increases in gun
ownership also have the largest drops in violent crimes" ? Don't you think they deserve to know about peer reviewed research
concluding that "gun-armed victims who resist felons are roughly 50% less
likely to be injured http://www.2ndlawlib.org/journals/tennmed.html
than those who submit and 67% less likely to be injured than those resisting
with some other kind of weapon"? Don't you think they deserve to know that South African gun control laws
only bind law-abiding people, and as these become more restrictive, so do
options for self-defense? You can educate women all you like about police sensitivity and HIV and
legal advice and legislative attempts to ensure equality. Would you advise
them to speak of such things to an advancing glassy-eyed reptile with a carpet
knife? Criminals laugh at such notions. They laugh at women who believe such
notions. They laugh even harder the more desperately their defenseless prey
begs not to be violated, not to be hurt, not to be killed. What they don't
laugh at is armed defense. Don't you think women who rely on you deserve being told that they are
noble beings, and their right to life is inalienable? Don't you think your
mothers, sisters and daughters need to be shown that sidearms are effective
personal safety tools, as legitimate to own and deploy as a fire extinguisher? Don't you think that the two rapists who carried out their despicable acts
of degradation and violence in the time it has taken you to read this
communication (and the third rapist, who is just now getting started) deserved
to hear something besides the helpless and terrified pleadings of their
victims? Something like "Stop, or I'll shoot!"? David Codrea To which I received this response: ----- Original Message ----- I'm sorry but you clearly haven't been raped - your answers to all are NO Conclusion: I guess I've been dismissed, and without much thought, it appears. I
"clearly haven't been raped," so I must not be qualified to ask
questions. Much like her (his?) American anti-defense zealot counterparts, this
ignorant, closed-minded FOOL obviously will not be troubled with the facts. Much
like Sarah Brady, Rosie O'Donnell, the "Million Moms", Dianne
Feinstein, et al, this group enables the very monsters they decry, and they do
it, apparently either intentionally or out of fanaticism. They are impervious to
reason, unwilling to even consider evidence that diverges from that which they
CHOOSE to believe or espouse. Think about it, take their answer "NO," and apply it to each
question that I asked, AS DID THE SPEAK OUT! REPRESENTATIVE. The conclusions are
inarguable. According to Speak Out!, South African women: It is clear that Speak Out! not only believes women have no right to self
defense, but they have no right to information, no right to a choice in the
matter of their own safety. The dismissive and snotty ignorance and bigotry
(after all, how could a man who hasn't been raped understand?) they employed
replying to legitimate questions backed by validated research shows Speak Out!
is, and will continue to be, a danger to South African women, and the best
friends South Africa's rapists could ever ask for. One can only marvel at such complete incompetence which produces such
thoroughly opposite results from stated goals. It's almost like it's not
incompetence at all. It's almost like those authorized to communicate on behalf
of Speak Out! are either shills or dupes for a government rooted in Marxist
dogma, a government intent on maintaining a monopoly of force. At any cost. Even
if it means another woman gets raped every 26 seconds. Cry, beloved country. Your mothers, your sisters, your daughters have been
betrayed. Other Articles on South African Gun Control Other Articles from David Codrea http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com/Codrea
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