The gun bigots like to tell us that gun crime would lower if we made it near impossible for anyone to get firearms. It's not like you can just make a gun out of a pipe or anything, right?
Wrong
A 22-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man built a home-made firearm at the weekend and used the weapon to kill himself, police said on Monday
Police spokesperson Captain Khephu Ndlovu said the man had built the gun with a steel pipe at his Umlazi home on Saturday.
"The gun was seized and is now being kept at the police station," said Ndlovu.
The man then wrote a letter, locked his bedroom and apparently shot himself in the mouth.
The only reason guns are as expensive as they are today is because it costs a lot to make them reliable. Once the supply of reliable firearms dry up, criminals will simply make crude ones that endanger just as many lives while forcing the law abiding to suffer.
But that's the problem when you're so short sighted that you can only focus on the tool and not the criminal wielding it.
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Monday, November 26, 2007 9:40 AM