Jonathan Deal: ANC “agenda” to disarm private citizens could ignite SA

“The ANC wants your guns, but not for public safety.” So says Jonathan Deal, the leader of the Safe Citizen Campaign. He warns that if proposed amendments to legislation became law, the effect would be to turn millions of law-abiding South Africans into criminals overnight. “I don't believe that South Africans will hand their firearms in.” Deal points out that South Africans “are being squeezed from all directions”, and warns: “…if the government is going to insist on going down this road, the consequences may well be catastrophic for all South Africans”. Meanwhile, he recalls the role private gun owners played in quelling the 2021 riots in KZN, and says had it not been for that, the “insurrection would have completely engulfed KwaZulu-Natal - and I don't doubt that it would have spread right across the country.” He also slams the “complete dearth of control and accountability” in State organs of looking after their firearms, with some handed in under amnesty or recovered through other means being sold by SAPS officers to gangsters.