Political parties should speak up on gun ownership

WHY are the main political parties, ANC aside, so silent and noncommitted to the subject of private gun ownership?

Why are the DA, Freedom Front Plus, IFP etc sitting on the fence while the ANC is attempting to push through legislative changes to the Firearms Control Act by attempting to prohibit self-defence as a reason for owning a firearm? Is this legislation simply an attempt to disarm the public?

Why is it that not a single political party is standing up for the constitutional right of honest lawabiding citizens to defend their lives?

Why are honest law-abiding gun owners and potential gun owners being demonised and blamed for the killing fields on the Cape Flats with the help of selective statistics being presented to the authorities by antigun ear whisperers? Why the silence? Or do all non-ANC political parties see the subject of gun ownership as a hot potato? If so, why?

Once again, too many questions and absolutely no answers.

| COLIN BOSMAN Newlands