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Guns for politicians - And us

We need guns. We want guns. We must be allowed to own guns. In Parliament the idea of politicians and prosecutors having guns is being mooted. I am not sure exactly how this is going to work.

Work? Usually such grand and strange ideas don’t always work. The whole purpose of legislation is to come up with something that will satiate the masses but it doesn’t necessarily have to work.

So the idea is that a politician or a Minister could be addressing a kgotla meeting and a gun-toting hothead would pull out a gun in an attempt to shoot the legislator but the latter will beat him to the draw and gun him down. So what does this mean? This is another attempt to diversify the economy because giving legislators guns means there has to be gun schools to teach the legislators how to shoot and how to beat gun-toting rogues to the draw.

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Editor's Comment
DIS must correct costly stalemate

More than P8.1 million has already been spent, yet there appears to be no lasting solution in sight. This is not simply a dispute between the DIS and a group of officers. It is a matter of public accountability. Every pula spent by government comes from taxpayers who expect public funds to be used wisely and responsibly, especially during economic hardships faced by many.The officers exercised their constitutional right to seek justice through...

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