2004 Volume 4
Editorial
My best memories of childhood are playing ”guns” with the other kids, imitating US SWAT teams and cowboys like Shane, John Wayne and the men of Little House on the Prairie.
For us, those toy guns were a symbol of brave men, fighting against incredible odds, to resist tyranny, preserve freedom and protect their families. Unfortunately today, guns both real and play, are politically incorrect. Even a Christmas Toy Run advert asked motor bikers to not bring toy guns as gifts for under-privileged children.
In effect, we have adopted the pagan fallacy of animism; that evil lurks in things, rather than people. Therefore demonising guns (even toy ones) gives self-righteous crusaders some feeling of power. Ban toy guns and zap dido, you banish the evil!
People today fear firearms of any sort because they rightly fear the consequences of living in a godless society. Modern South Africans reject God and His Law and then are horrified that their children grow up to become consistent with what has been hammered into them in thirteen years at the State propaganda mills. They have been taught that there is no truth, no objective standard of justice, that they are just an evolved animal and therefore that there are no absolutes.
Parents delegate the rearing of their children to the nanny state, the schools, the TV and video-games and then wonder why some of them turn out to be killers. But no, it cannot be our lack of faith, our lack of personal morality, our lack of objective truth, our materialistic mentality or our adoption of ancient pagan heresies that causes the problem. It must be the toy guns!
We should teach our children to be aggressive against injustice, adventurous in their lives - and instil in them a hatred for evil and a deep desire to fight it.
Let’s raise responsible children who will become responsible adults and protect their freedoms and those of their neighbours.
Speaking of freedom, 2004 was probably the worst year in the history of South Africa as far as draconian laws go in curtailing the ownership and use of firearms by law-abiding citizens. If we don’t do something about the Firearms Control Act we will soon be living in a tyrannical state with limited to no freedom (cf. Zimbabwe).
In a conversation with a black gun owner I was told that for the SA government to take notice and take gun owners seriously, they (black gun owners) would need to smash some windows and burn a few vehicles in the streets. He said that the government does not understand any other kind of negotiation. He further mentioned that the ANC is actually the Communist Party but don’t call themselves such - as it would give a bad impression internationally.
In a different conversation a white leader in a gun club wanted me to believe that we must win the communists over to our side of the firearm debate by discussion and persuasion. What this poor man does not understand is the philosophical basis from which communists work; they will lie and promise you the world because ”a lie told often enough becomes the truth.” - Vladimir Lenin.
No government can protect us every hour of the day. We need to protect our own, and have a responsibility to do just that.
So, when you go away on holiday please drive carefully, put your faith in God and keep your powder dry.
I know it is politically incorrect but hey, we specialise in being just that...so have a wonderful, blessed Christmas as you celebrate the birth of the King of kings, Jesus Christ.
Yours
Charl van Wyk