Guns have infiltrated our society

In the past week alone, the police recorded at least four shootings across the country. In some of these events, lives were lost. In one of the cases, a woman was shot and injured near the ministry of health headquarters and the assailant fled the scene. In another incident over the weekend, a person was shot dead in Block Six, Gaborone.

The police are still investigating the incidents. This adds to crime statitics that show an average of seven murders, and tens of armed robbery cases every week.

What is disturbing is the rate at which our streets are becoming a haven for guns, yet we do not have stores that sell guns over the counter. It becomes obvious that some of these guns are illegal or were smuggled into the country and the people who possess them do not qualify to have.  These people have not been properly trained or tested on the handling of firearms.

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