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

    The article is the usual, intentional, mix of stats and timelines to create a false emotional response.

    "gun deaths" increasing trend since 2010. It may be true that more people are being shot, in gang-related shootings, since 2010.

    15 000 have been paralyzed since 1994. Suddenly, an extra 24 years has been added on, but the emotional experience is already there. 15 000 paralyzed, each one a disaster, but where? Cape Flats only, entire country? What is it? It is left unsaid.

    So we have a big number: 15 000, and the next paragraph is "more people are being paralyzed by gun shots than by car accidents. It used to be the other way around." that is not stated as a quotation, but as a statement by the journalist. What period are we talking about? The last year, ten years, last night?

    Between 18 and 16 survive and incident a day. Given we've had paralysis dominating the thread, the mind of the reader is assuming this is a paralyzed person.

    Surely this journalist has be to reported to the ombudsman to retract an obviously misleading article, and do it on the front page.

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    What's also annoying beyond expression, is that a lawless area and crimes between lawless people (gangs) is used to create legislation to control people who are not lawless.

    This is outright propaganda

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

    Don't know why GFSA is posting crap like this when it's due to their gun amnesty that thousands of legally owned and stored guns were sold to the gangsters in the Cape.
    Are they admitting they are personally responsible for that many disabled people?
    Interesting.

    Maybe a class action suit against GFSA by all those affected by gangsterism is on the cards?

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    Don't know why GFSA is posting crap like this when it's due to their gun amnesty that thousands of legally owned and stored guns were sold to the gangsters in the Cape.
    Are they admitting they are personally responsible for that many disabled people?
    Interesting.

    Maybe a class action suit against GFSA by all those affected by gangsterism is on the cards?

    No its part of their propaganda drive. They want people to believe the FCA is the truth and the light, if only it could be enforced. At the heart of it is that without guns, none of this would have happened.

    Suddenly, we'd be rid of all gang-related violence, because gangsters don't use other things to hurt each other you see...

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

    I note with disdain that IOL does not allow commenting.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Tetelestai View Post
    I note with disdain that IOL does not allow commenting.
    Scurvy Iqbal doesn't want the truth to get in the way of a bullshit story.
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    Default Re: Gunshots paralyse more people than car crashes on Cape Flats

    GFSA is not interested in the truth. It's all about propaganda. Repeat the half-truth / lie / distorted fact often enough and it's believed. And importantly, for them, discrediting the lie becomes a whole lot harder once it's accepted....

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    The piece is pure propaganda.

    It relies on what is called tautology - seemingly iron-clad links of logic but, if examined are revealed to have either no actual link or be devoid of any underlying link, logic or other rationale.

    In layman's terms, its called bullshit.

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

    I actually feel like I have been bukkaked with stupid here!
    I won't go into all of the points... But you are comparing apples and oranges here. The mechanism of injury here is fundamentally different - blunt vs penetrating trauma. So comparing clinical outcomes is extremely difficult - and pointless.

    Firstly, I doubt the veracity of the stats. Secondly, the selection of paralysis as a clinical outcome has also been chosen for its emotional impact. Maybe we should compare how many people have been left immune compromised because they had to have their spleen removed. But that wouldn't be such a big tear jerker...

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

    If anyone wants to hit back, I would suggest we NOT complain about the poor reportage, even worse research methodologies and oodles of academic fraud, but politely remind the readers that any gun handed in during an amnesty and which finds its way into criminal hands is Richard Matzopolous's work... since he is a director of GFSA and they pushed the amnesties and gun-handins!
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