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I've lived in South Africa all my life (im 21), 19 years in Johannesburg. I've been brought to tears reading posts on popular forums by people bad-mouthing my city and my country without having experienced it. Im not here to argue your facts though, i agree on paper it doesn't look appealling.
Besides a few of my friends dad's who are farmers and own (to my knowledge) one or two guns i can only think of 1 person i've ever known who owns one. Him and a rowing coach i had who was a corporal or something in the army. His is the only gun i've ever held (a Glock 17 i think with the magazine removed). The only guns i see otherwise are on police officers or cash-in-transit guards, and i cross the street when i see them. I agree that they're designed to destroy, its not hard to see that even if a gun is designed to shoot clay targets it can do serious harm to a human or animal. The only skeet i've done was 'laser clay pigeon shooting' with mock shotguns equipped with lasers. I think only the dumbest of criminals would try rob someone clay pigeon shooting, they'd no doubt be shot by everyone participating! Hence, more dangerous than a bat, knife (bar a professional with one), axe, crowbar etc.
I have had a gun pointed at me once though, a convenience store i was in was robbed. I'd seen it happen so many times on tv it was surreal. lying on the floor of the store i looked up at the guy and asked him if i could have my wallet minus the cash back so i wouldnt have to replace all my bank cards. i wasnt worried about my cell phone and it didnt change any of my plans for the night.
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