On 7/18/18 11:05 AM, BurfordTJustice wrote:
"BurfordTJustice" wrote in message
news : South Africa Calls for 300,000 Gun Owners to Turn Over Their Weapons
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: South Africa is opening the door for tyranny.
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: The Constitutional Court of South Africa recently ruled that 300,000 gun
: owners must turn in their firearms.
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: This judgement came in response to the North Gauteng High Court's ruling
in
: 2017 which said Section 24 and Section 28 of the Firearm's Control Act
were
: unconstitutional.
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: A report from The Citizen explains what Section 24 and Section 28 entail:
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: "Section 24 of the Act requires that any person who seeks to renew a
: licence must do so 90 days before its expiry date Section 28 stipulates
that
: if a firearm licence has been cancelled, the firearm must be disposed of
or
: forfeited to the state. A 60-day time frame was placed on its disposal,
: which was to be done through a dealer."
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: Now that the High Court's initial ruling has been overturned, gun owners
who
: failed to renew their firearms licenses must hand in their firearms to the
: nearest police station, where authorities will then proceed to destroy
them.
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: Many naïve political observers will paint this event as a casual gun
control
: scheme, but any astute student of politics will recognize that the
: floodgates are now open for further encroachments - not only on the gun
: rights of South Africans, but also on others facets of theirs lives.
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: A look at South Africa's current political climate will give us an idea of
: the potential ramifications of this gun control scheme.
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: Political Trouble Brewing in South Africa?
: Though South Africa witnessed rising levels of economic freedom shortly
: after Apartheid ended in 1994, the country has taken a more
interventionist
: path to economic development in recent years.
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: This situation is becoming more pronounced with the South African National
: Assembly recently voting 241-83 to amend the South African constitution to
: allow for land expropriation without compensation.
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: The socialist-leaning African National Congress (ANC) and the Economic
: Freedom Fighters (EFF) parties are leading the charge for expropriation
: under the banner of fixing racial disparities that have supposedly
remained
: intact since Apartheid's conclusion.
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: While land confiscation has not been officially finalized, South Africans
: should worry about the direction their country is going.
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: And how does gun control fit into this equation?
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: Gun Control: A Tool for Tyranny
: No matter how socialist apologists rationalize it, the redistributionist
: agenda the South African government is pursuing will not be implemented
: passively. Ultimately, it must be carried out by force.
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: The kind of force socialists seek is a monopolized kind, which extreme
forms
: of gun control like gun confiscation help facilitate.
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: The history of gun confiscation is one of repeated cases of tyranny.
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: From countries such as Cuba to the Soviet Union, aspiring demagogues have
: used gun confiscation to disarm the populace. Logically, an unarmed
populace
: will put up little resistance against their tyrannical acts.
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: In South Africa's case, farmers and their workers are already suffering
: ongoing attacks against their property. One could only imagine what it
would
: be like for these persecuted farmers once they are stripped of their right
: to self-defense.
: For many Americans who have enjoyed historically unprecedented gun rights,
: South Africa's gun control experience may seem distant and strange.
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: But make no mistake about it, South Africa's latest flirtation with gun
: control is not based on good intentions, especially when considering the
: political climate the country is enduring.
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: South Africa should serve as a fair warning to Americans of the dangerous
: consequences gun control poses.
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On 7/13/18 6:29 AM, BurfordTJustice wrote:
Replying to yourself is a sure sign of mental illness.