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>How wicked the Government is, and how excellent our God, Jesus
>Christ is! Today, Wednesday, 8 March is International women's
>Day. A good excuse staging something and hiding behind a woman's
>skirt. Which is exactly what Gun Free South Africa attempted.
>They staged a march to Parliament in the name of 'women against
>crime', called it 'women against gun violence' and eventually
>projected it as 'women supporting the proposed Firearm Control
>Bill'. Gun Free South Africa sent out an invite, making
>available free transport to the rally, all in all busses carried
>about three hundred women to the gates of Parliament, where they
>were waving 'Women Against Guns' posters around and mostly all
>wearing ANC clothing. (The phone number you could call to be
>picked up by the bus was also the number of the ANC branch!) Do
>these women really know what it's all about; did they come
>because they are tired of all the crime? Who isn't? We all want
>the crime rate to drop, we just do not see the proposed Firearm
>Control Bill as the answer.
>
>Three ladies from our organisation, Victims Against Crime, took
>placards and decided to attend this Gun Free March, but just with
>our own posters. Posters that say, 'Rwanda was a Gun Free Zone',
>'Gun Control proceeds Genocide', 'Criminals prefer Unarmed
> Victims' and a huge sign saying 'The experts agree: Gun control
>works!' featuring the photographs of Hitler, Castro, Gaddafi and
>Stalin.
>
>Wow! What a reaction we got! As soon as women started reading
>what our posters said, they were furious. Women were screaming at
>us telling us to be ashamed of ourselves, this was a Gun Free
>march. One woman tried to cover our poster with hers! Someone
>from CapeTalk interviewed my one colleague and this lady came
>running up to her saying, "She's not the right one, don't talk to
>her, this is not their march!" What happened to freedom of speech
>or freedom of the press? The posters really provoked hatred in
>people. It might seem a strong word, but it's true. There we
>were, three ladies standing smiling, on the pavement, next to the
>rally, attracting the most attention. We were speaking to all the
>press, handing out literature to passers-by and just being our
>friendly self, explaining why we believed in the right of
>self-defence, as opposed to a Gun Free Utopia, where only the
>criminals would have guns! Most of the people we spoke to
>understood our point of view.
>
>How good God is! We were wondering what the three of us could
>possibly do, and God just literally sent all these people to us
>to talk to! We handed out literature to the police monitoring the
>march as well and they were very supportive. Amazingly enough, as
>we were standing there, marchers protesting against us, the peace
>monitors on the outskirts did not once tell us to leave! We were
>not doing anything wrong, we were only trying to educate the
>crowd that Gun Free South Africa got together. The media were
>observing this and the one reporter laughingly asked if we were
>only three people causing such a stir? We received a lot of media
>coverage, well put it this way, the reporters all came to us to
>find out what we were doing there, and they actually listened.
>Realistically speaking we know they get controlled by their
>editors and nothing will probably get published, but if we could
>have at least made them think twice, we achieved a lot.
>
>So, by the grace of God, three women can fight for the right to
>self-defence and one person can make a difference. Have you?
>
>- Verushka Louw
>(Editor: Firearm News[/quote]
>
>How wicked the Government is, and how excellent our God, Jesus
>Christ is! Today, Wednesday, 8 March is International women's
>Day. A good excuse staging something and hiding behind a woman's
>skirt. Which is exactly what Gun Free South Africa attempted.
>They staged a march to Parliament in the name of 'women against
>crime', called it 'women against gun violence' and eventually
>projected it as 'women supporting the proposed Firearm Control
>Bill'. Gun Free South Africa sent out an invite, making
>available free transport to the rally, all in all busses carried
>about three hundred women to the gates of Parliament, where they
>were waving 'Women Against Guns' posters around and mostly all
>wearing ANC clothing. (The phone number you could call to be
>picked up by the bus was also the number of the ANC branch!) Do
>these women really know what it's all about; did they come
>because they are tired of all the crime? Who isn't? We all want
>the crime rate to drop, we just do not see the proposed Firearm
>Control Bill as the answer.
>
>Three ladies from our organisation, Victims Against Crime, took
>placards and decided to attend this Gun Free March, but just with
>our own posters. Posters that say, 'Rwanda was a Gun Free Zone',
>'Gun Control proceeds Genocide', 'Criminals prefer Unarmed
> Victims' and a huge sign saying 'The experts agree: Gun control
>works!' featuring the photographs of Hitler, Castro, Gaddafi and
>Stalin.
>
>Wow! What a reaction we got! As soon as women started reading
>what our posters said, they were furious. Women were screaming at
>us telling us to be ashamed of ourselves, this was a Gun Free
>march. One woman tried to cover our poster with hers! Someone
>from CapeTalk interviewed my one colleague and this lady came
>running up to her saying, "She's not the right one, don't talk to
>her, this is not their march!" What happened to freedom of speech
>or freedom of the press? The posters really provoked hatred in
>people. It might seem a strong word, but it's true. There we
>were, three ladies standing smiling, on the pavement, next to the
>rally, attracting the most attention. We were speaking to all the
>press, handing out literature to passers-by and just being our
>friendly self, explaining why we believed in the right of
>self-defence, as opposed to a Gun Free Utopia, where only the
>criminals would have guns! Most of the people we spoke to
>understood our point of view.
>
>How good God is! We were wondering what the three of us could
>possibly do, and God just literally sent all these people to us
>to talk to! We handed out literature to the police monitoring the
>march as well and they were very supportive. Amazingly enough, as
>we were standing there, marchers protesting against us, the peace
>monitors on the outskirts did not once tell us to leave! We were
>not doing anything wrong, we were only trying to educate the
>crowd that Gun Free South Africa got together. The media were
>observing this and the one reporter laughingly asked if we were
>only three people causing such a stir? We received a lot of media
>coverage, well put it this way, the reporters all came to us to
>find out what we were doing there, and they actually listened.
>Realistically speaking we know they get controlled by their
>editors and nothing will probably get published, but if we could
>have at least made them think twice, we achieved a lot.
>
>So, by the grace of God, three women can fight for the right to
>self-defence and one person can make a difference. Have you?
>
>- Verushka Louw
>(Editor: Firearm News[/quote]
