Guns are safe
By Tom Mukuha
I am a gun owner and don't like the NRA, but when they say, 'when guns are outlawed then. Only outlaws will have guns,' they are correct. No one is safe, the reason I am writing this article is to drum up support for gun ownership in Kenya. Guns are dangerous but Make no mistake, when only the police have guns, no one is safe. Even the wanton killing by the trigger happy police does not deter crime. The only safety is when you're at home and behind locked bars. Bars everywhere, doors, windows, gates, everywhere outside security guards armed with a machete (if you pay extra). The Guard comes at 6 and going home to a tin shack where there is no food. The bed is infested by bed bugs, no running water indoor plumbing and defiantly no toilets (except the flying once) his job is to stand guard waiting inside a locked gate surrounded by wall around our house. This is a terrible way to live both for the middle class and the watchman day and night the stress of crime is intoxicating and exhausting. My question is does anyone wonder when they are snug in bed, what the watchman is think in the cold scared of the thugs knowing that they will come with guns or bows and arrows.
The only hope a Kenyan trapped in a house surrounded by 20 to 30 thugs high on 100 percent quality changa’a is to call 999 if the phone has credit or the network is good enough. Emergency response arrives afew hours later on foot after taking a bus and walking for hours too late to prevent anything. So who is failing here? I will answer this question this way the Kenyan people are failing they have been brain washed to believe that the outdated police response is capable of working in a congested community. The government through propaganda is failing to protect the security of the individual and property. Kenya is hence a state where life is brutish, hash and nasty because of laws placed by someone who has guards 24/7. There was no consultation when these laws were placed no studies if there were any they should have realized that countries with gun ownership legislation are the safest to live in. good example right next door Kenya
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when the state fails whose job is it to protect you?
ReplyDeletewhat i am advocating for is guns to law abiding citizens what this means is a better method of identifiaction-more computerized like the one in North america..drivers licences, personal identification and ofcourse better home adress systems..arm one fuction of the law abiding citizens and the people who are evil and will to break the law will fear for there lives
ReplyDeleteThe single item of evidence which did most to convince me about the rights and wrongs of the gun control argument came from, of all places, Jamaica. In the course of editing and publishing for the Libertarian Alliance David Botsford's The Case Against Gun Control, I read paragraphs such as this one:
ReplyDelete"Japan has much stricter gun control than most parts of the USA, yet Japanese-Americans, who have much easier access to firearms, have much lower violence rates than Japanese in Japan. Mexico has more restrictive gun control than the USA, and also a much higher murder and armed crime rate. In Taiwan, like Malaysia, the death penalty can be imposed for illegal ownership of guns, and gun control is stricter than Japan. Yet the murder rate in Taiwan is four times higher than that of Japan, and 30% higher than in the USA. South Africa has much stricter firearms control than the USA, yet has twice the murder rate." (5)
"Before independence in 1962, Jamaica had a tolerable level of crime, and permitted private ownership of guns, subject to having a police permit. From 1962 to 1973 the homicide rate rose by 450% and violent crimes, including armed robberies, rose even more sharply. In 1973 (after an incident in which four businessmen were murdered by shooting) a total ban on the private ownership of all types of guns and ammunition was imposed. Police seized all legal firearms and were given the power to search any vehicle or house they believed to contain guns or ammunition, arresting without warrant any violators. These were taken to a 'gun court', with no bail allowed, and, after a delay of perhaps weeks, arraigned in secret courts without representation, and those convicted were imprisoned in a 'gun stockade' for an indeterminate period. For three months after the introduction of this system the rate of armed crime dropped, and then it grew completely out of control. Any political activity was accompanied by armed men roaming the streets, and armed troops had to preserve order during elections. Murders by shooting, armed robberies and other crimes set new world records, and spread throughout society. Later the Commissioner of Corrections admitted that the ban had not affected the hard core criminals, and the worst excesses of the system were corrected."
Tom, I believe EVERYONE should have "the right to bear arms." Nice post!
ReplyDeleteWell most people should have the right to bear arms, of course we should screen them before we issue them. In canada we go through a 2 day testing period those 2 days are spent in class. The reason to own guns for most canadians is for hunting and sports like target practice. For handguns one must belong to a Gun club and go through the same testing and class time. However i do belive everyone should have the right to bear arms the gun does not commit the crime its the person.
ReplyDeleteI got a reply for a guy i must Quote he was talking in a paradox refering to the issue of gun ownership in kenya. he was against kenyans owning Guns so he said 'a kindom owned be hawks will never get the chickens to rest" which is true if all we all arm or selves then we respect each other almost automatically. rules and common sense starts coming up like spring flowers.
Thanks alot Dave i will keep posting them, its been gaining lots of steam and i hope to table this to the kenyan parliament some day
ReplyDeleteYes i agree. The police can only arrest criminals, but cannot prevent crime. It is the civilian who can prevent crime if they are armed.
ReplyDeleteGood article sir. The rising crime rate in Kenya demands that responsible citizens bear legal arms. Government should not stand in the way. Current debate in America is just a red herring to introduce the tyranny of the state through the back door. We shouldn't be discouraged from owning guns as Kenyans. Then the brutal criminals will learn to respect civilians a little bit more.
ReplyDeleteGood post, Kenyan citizens should be allowed to own firearms for protection.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of getting one real soon. With this high crime rate...I think that is the only way out! I either get a license or own one illegally (which I don't prefer). Nice post Mukuha!!
ReplyDeletePerhaps terrorists would not have such success if some of their victims were armed.
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