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    Default Gunshots paralyse more people than car crashes on Cape Flats

    Oh FFS!!


    Gunshots paralyse more people than car crashes on Cape Flats - Cape Argus

    19-Sep-2017 12:45:12 PM

    Cape Town - For every person shot and killed in gun violence on the Cape Flats,
    as many as six others survive but are often left with severe disabilities.

    This is according to a global study called Gun Violence, Disability and
    Recovery, looking at South Africa's gun-related death rates.

    Richard Matzopoulos, a senior specialist scientist at the Medical Research
    Council, said there was an increasing trend in gun homicides in Cape Town, from
    2010.

    He said more than 15000 people have been left paralysed since 1994 as a result
    of gun-related injuries, adding that incidence peaks in young adult men.

    One of those injured by a gunman's bullet in 1998, is a young man from Bishop
    Lavis. He did not wish to be named.He was out with friends in Bishop Lavis when
    a fight ensued and shots rang out moments later.

    "The bullet hit me from my side in my spine. I woke up in the hospital with two
    pipes coming out of me. There was no blood on my clothes, I bled on the inside
    and they had to drill holes in me."

    He said that he was determined to not be bedridden and three weeks into his
    two-month hospital stay, he began working on moving.

    "I found a wheelchair at the hospital and I forced myself to get up and started
    exercises. I couldn't stand being in bed like that."

    Even though the incident happened in 1998, his life has never been the same.

    Gun Free SA's Claire Taylor said, from hospital data in the Western Cape, more
    people are being paralysed by gunshots than car crashes. Normally it would be
    car crashes that are the biggest cause but latest data indicates that it is
    gunshot incidents.

    Taylor said it was an indication of how bad the issue of guns in communities
    is.

    "These guns are increasingly stolen and being used against children and innocent
    people. At the moment the mortuary data is very extensive and they are able to
    track the influx in terms of gun death rates."

    Gun violence can only happen when there's a gun; the fewer guns there are, the
    less the risk of death or injury, including permanent disability.

    She added that strong gun laws can and do save lives, if they are properly
    enforced.

    "Poor enforcement kills, injures, permanently disables and costs individuals,
    families, communities and South Africa as a whole. As such, we call on
    government to:

    enforce the Firearms Control Act, this includes: Immediate implementation of
    measures to stop firearms leaking from SAPS stores, as was the case with ex-SAPS
    Colonel Christiaan Prinsloo."

    The report stated that using South Africa's gun-related death rate, between 16
    and 18 people survive an incident a day.

    It also said that gun-related injuries are more complicated to treat than stab
    or blunt injuries.

    "The impact of gun violence is complicated, having physical, social,
    psychological and financial costs; it causes pain and suffering for those who
    survive a shooting, as well as for the family and friends of those killed or
    injured. But it is not only those who are shot and their loved ones who pay; we
    all pay to cover the costs."

    yolisa.tswanya@inl.co.za

    Cape Argus


    https://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/news...flats-11272554

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    Right. Ask Paul about Matzopoulos and statistics.
    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

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    Default Re: Gunshots paralyse more people than car crashes on Cape Flats

    Pathetic attempt at counter propaganda from gfsa to link civilian guns to gang violence via their stooge in the press.

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    Damn idiots!

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    Default Re: Gunshots paralyse more people than car crashes on Cape Flats

    So 15 000 people left disabled by guns over the past 23 years, but almost as many die every year on the road. Now, either car accidents have a miraculously low incidence of leaving survivors disabled (so they either die or there are no lasting effects - unlikely) or the stats have been masterfully manipulated. Maybe they only looked at the stats for one week in July this year.

    Or maybe they just made this shit up. But the maths don't add up

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    Default Re: Gunshots paralyse more people than car crashes on Cape Flats

    Dear GFSA, while you are messing around with numbers, wha'ts 2Q + 2Q ?

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    Are they suggesting they steal more guns than cars?

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    Default Re: Gunshots paralyse more people than car crashes on Cape Flats

    Matzopolous is a thoroughly discredited 'academic'.

    If he claimed the sun rose in the morning I would check outside first.
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    Default Re: Gunshots paralyse more people than car crashes on Cape Flats

    Did they factor in the gang mentality to deliberately " put someone in a chair" rather than kill them?
    live out your imagination , not your history.

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    Fascinating to me is always how reporters like for example Carte Blanche or 3rd Degree or even Ross Kemp. Can make documentaries about Gangsters, drugs and all they do.
    They even do interviews with these guys. Yet the police that get paid to catch these guys. Seemingly can never find them.
    If the police did there jobs instead of avoiding these gangsters. Or getting paid off by them. This wont be a problem.

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