https://news.yahoo.com/african-women-tu ... 28960.html
Sun, February 7, 2021, 11:12 AM
For the dozens of women training at a shooting range near Johannesburg, learning how to use a gun has become a means of protection in a country where a woman is murdered every three hours.
For the first time in her life, Ntando Mthembu holds a revolver in her hands. Without hesitating she fires 10 bullets towards a cardboard target.
Last November Mthembu's cousin, left alone in a house for several hours, was gang-raped and murdered.
"Before it happens to me, I want to be prepared," said 33-year-old Mthembu.
South Africa is among the most violent countries on Earth, and its homicide rates are constantly increasing.
In 2019-2020, the country suffered 21,325 murders, according to the latest annual police report -- up 1.4 percent on the previous year.
And the rate of femicide is five times higher than the global average.
South African women turn to guns to fight rape, murder scourge
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South Africa is a perfect example of how diversity, social justice, and the UN is cancer.
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And we're careening at breakneck speed to become just like them. smh.Solar_Empire wrote: ↑February 7th, 2021, 9:48 pm South Africa is a perfect example of how diversity, social justice, and the UN is cancer.
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At least they’re taking action when the system fails them.
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Re: South African women turn to guns to fight rape, murder scourge
"Ntando Mthembu holds a revolver in her hands. Without hesitating she fires 10 bullets towards a cardboard target"
Wait, what?!
Wait, what?!
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speed loads at JM speeds
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Re: South African women turn to guns to fight rape, murder scourge
Robert1234 wrote: ↑February 12th, 2021, 6:44 pm "Ntando Mthembu holds a revolver in her hands. Without hesitating she fires 10 bullets towards a cardboard target"
Wait, what?!
Don't expect a journalist to get the words right..... just like non-gun americans refer to all handguns as "pistols" these days, in the former british colonies its not uncommon to refer to all handguns as "revolvers", no doubt this is the case. (Likely also where the term "automatic revolver" came from more-so than the obscure actual automatic revolver.) When I was in RSA for a business trip 20+ years ago, the topic of defense guns came up a coupla times with locals and they used the word "firearm".
Even within our gun world words change meanings.... the 1851 used to be called the "Colt's Revolving Belt Pistol of Naval Caliber".
Speaking of proving ignorance using the wrong word.... who remembers the phrase published repeatedly in the news in the last coupla months: "open the hatch and spin the drum"?
ya'll shoot good! (you too Ntando!)
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