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Original Post Date: 2008-03-01 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Fiona Gounden
Durban residents are rushing to buy stun guns and other weapons as the proposed ban on the sale and possession of a long list of self-defence items will place major restrictions on a person’s ability to buy weapons.
Self-defence store owners, who are selling stun guns that emit as many as two million volts, are angered that they are about to lose their businesses – but cardiologists have welcomed the decision to ban stun guns because they believe these weapons could be “disastrous”.
While the SAPS has urged people to remain calm because this is a proposed amendment to the Dangerous Weapons Act and they “want to stimulate public comment”, the Local Government, Housing and Traditional Affairs Department said they were scrutinising the entire proposal and would be putting forward their comment in the next few days raising all their concerns because it would affect the possession of traditional weapons such as spears and knobkieries.
There will be a six-week period during which people can voice their objections, but more information was not available at the time of going to press.
Durban cardiologist Dr Francis Warren says the “ban may not be such a bad decision” because he was horrified at the effects a stun gun would have on a healthy person and “wouldn’t want to imagine what it would do to a person with a weak heart”.
“A stun gun subdues a person by administering an electric shock aimed at disrupting muscle functions. When anything over 500 000 volts shocks the body it can be a disaster.
“For someone who has a perfectly good heart it can weaken the delicate muscles around the heart, and thereby cause tension and affect the heartbeat, causing permanent damage which is irreversible.
“It could also lead to paralysis in the body. You might find that a person with a healthy heart may have problems two or three months down the line.”
Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula has tabled the Bill in the National Assembly proposing a ban on a range of non-lethal weapons including bows, daggers, swords and assegais, which could injure or disable a person.
The list of dangerous weapons also includes catapults, pangas, cattle prods, flick knives, batons, ninja stars and “any other article which is not a licensed firearm”.
Should the proposed notice drafted for consultation purposes be approved in its current form, it will become an offence for people to carry a “dangerous weapon” in public.
Paul Murphy, the owner of Blades and Bows, a self-defence retail store at Game City in Greyville, Durban, said he had two popular makes of stun guns that had sold well in the past few weeks.
Meanwhile the DA’s spokeswoman on Safety and Security, Dianne Kohler Barnard said: “We want clarity on the proposed amendments to the Act. We want to know how does seeking to ban the carrying of certain weapons from all public spaces not infringe on the ability of people to defend themselves.
“We want an extension on the period for public comment … Given the general public perception that the police are unable to keep people safe, confusion about what is and is not allowed with regard to self-defence may well cost lives.”
People needed to realise that “nothing is finalised as yet” said Director Selby Bokaba, spokesman for SAPS Legal Services.