SA has earned the dubious honour of outgunning the US with 5.28 deaths per 100 000 people in 2019, according to research.
With the world reeling from news of America’s latest school shooting where at least 19 primary school children were killed, SA still has higher gun deaths than the US with its lax gun laws. The US has the 32nd-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 3.96 deaths per 100 000 people in 2019, more than eight times higher as the rate in Canada, which had 0.47 deaths per 100 000 people – and nearly 100 times higher than the United Kingdom’s 0.04 deaths per 100 000, npr.
“A lot of guns which are used for gang violence or murders usually come from the SA Police Sevice. We very often see that Z88s are used, which is an old police service pistol,” he claimed.“In cash-in-transit heists, the R5s used are also police-issued. Often weapons handed in by the public or stored at police evidence safes are found at crime scenes,” Cameron said.
“It’s not the guns that are a problem, but that they are so easily available to criminals in this violent country. Violence in SA is out of control and many of us have accepted it as a norm.has been focusing on legal gun owners. But legal gun owners lose less guns than the Saps,” Cameron said. “It is the combination of the availability of illegal guns and a large population of individuals who want to use those guns for crime.”
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