SmarterthanYou
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somalis take up illegal arms to fend off gangs of thieves
because those damn subjects should know better than to think they are free to defend themselves.
Twelve of them have been killed in Khayelitsha alone - one of the largest townships in the province - in the past three months, according to Abdi Ahmed, a spokesman for the Somali Retailers' Association. "Our people are dying like dogs, and the government is doing nothing to stop it," he said.
The Sunday Times has established that detectives and the Visible Policing Unit, tipped off that shopkeepers were arming themselves, have since raided Somali stores. They recovered five illegal firearms and arrested five Somalians.
because those damn subjects should know better than to think they are free to defend themselves.