Posted on 07/03/2005 2:15:06 PM PDT by John Jorsett
The ZWNews website reports that the Mugabe dictatorship has ordered a new round of gun confiscation:
Police at the weekend said they were revoking licences for all automatic rifles and some types of pistols and said civilians owning such weapons had until today to surrender them....As I detailed in a 2001 article, Zimbabwe's dictatorship has a long practice of using gun controls, many of which were inherited from British colonial rule, to ensure that victims of its barbaric abuses of human rights are unable to resist. The International Association of Genocide Scholars, in a June 7 statement, warned that the Mugabe government was again on the path to mass murder.
But sources at police headquarters in Harare said the move was just precautionary to ensure such weapons could not be used by civilians should tension gripping Zimbabwe in the wake of the government’s clean-up exercise erupt into public violence. "The ban is targeted at all automatic weapons which the government fears could pose a security threat in the country should the civil strife in Zimbabwe turn violent," said a source, who did not want to be named for fear of victimisation. This is not the first time that the government has cancelled firearm licences. At the peak of its chaotic and often violent farm seizure programme in 2000, the government issued a decree compelling civilians to surrender their guns. The move was targeted at white commercial farmers who at that time held a number of assault guns for self-protection. Zimbabwe’s security forces have been on high alert since the government launched a "clean-up" campaign last month that has left close to a million people without shelter after their shanty homes were demolished.
Next time some left-wing fecal-matter-for-brains poohpoohs owning a gun in order to be secure against government abuse, point them to this story.
Perhaps the most effective foreign aid which should be sent to the people of Zimbabwe would be millions of rifles, so that the people would no longer be defenseless against the depradations of one of the most evil governments in all of African history.
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YES! Glad to hear somebody say this. When will such a charity be started up?
On a similar note (Oxfam in Sri Lanka):
http://www.neoperspectives.com/charity.htm
"The ban is targeted at all automatic weapons which the government fears could pose a security threat in the country..."
They took this line right off the web sites of all the gun grabbers here in the US.
Won't make a difference. Leftist don't think logically, they live on emotion, fear, and control.
That would require liberals to recognize that past events are useful in predicting future one.
the way to create a dictatorship is to remove weapons from citizenry.. that way the can't rebel against a government take-over. the founding fathers of our country knew this and so in their brilliance gave us the second ammendment. God bbless america.
You may be more right than you realise.
When they took the fifth amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't own real estate.
When they took the fourth amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment,
I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the second amendment,
I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the first amendment,
and I can say nothing about it.
Anybody in Zimbabwe and not in Mugabe's crew with any chance to get out of the country and doesn't is nuts.
Let the Zimbabeans hide their guns to prepare for revolution.
ping
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