Instead, the group pointed to media sensationalism, violent video games, gun-free zones in schools, the failure to enforce gun laws already on the books, issues with the nation's mental health system and other societal problems as feeding the spate of gun violence.
There are about 2, 000 guns stolen from legal gun owners in South Africa every month, according to Gun Free South Africa.
"There are 1.5 million gun owners -- about 3.5 million guns in civilians hands, " said Alan Storey, chairman of Gun Free South Africa.
Yet Virginia Tech, like many schools and universities, is a gun-free zone.
But let's take the issue one step further and examine places where all guns, regardless of make or type, are outlawed: gun-free zones.
Bond, as an imagined agent of British culture, is an opportunity for a free-swinging, gun-toting male identity to be linked to a national spirit.
Real gun-free zones are a wonderful idea, but they are only real if they are created by metal detectors backed up by armed guards.
Gun-Free South Africa argues that, though guns are an effective means of killing criminals, they are a poor way of avoiding harm to oneself.
Finally, it must be acknowledged that many of these attacks today unfortunately take place in pretend "gun-free zones, " such as schools, movie theaters and shopping malls.
In the case of the NRA, this is reflected in its reversal on policies it supported in the past, such as gun-free school zones and universal background checks.
Collins was attacked at gunpoint at a University of Nevada-Reno parking garage in a gun-free zone located 50 feet away from the campus police department office in October 2007.
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The minister has been given sweeping powers to proclaim certain areas, like schools, gun-free zones, and to prohibit certain categories of weapons, while the police have new wide-ranging search and seizure powers.
It spread to the country's schools in 1994, when President Clinton's Gun-Free Schools Act required them to suspend for a year all students caught bringing guns on to their premises, and has been gathering momentum ever since, particularly after the gruesome killings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado earlier this year.
Jurisdictions can be free to choose their own gun laws (as they will anyway).
Military video games have long been thought of as free advertising for many military hardware and gun manufacturers, though both the game companies and the gun companies say that neither side pays the other to use the likeness of the products in the games most times.
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They passed liability protection for gunmakers and gun sellers, and they also approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
Would Call of Duty be a better game if it was free, but you had to wait ten minutes for a new gun to be delivered to you or for a silencer to be attached to it?
The concept of loot and random gun drops and builds would go out the window, as would free roaming and wacky sub-characters.
It might be with a gun, an army, a holy book, a law, an invisible free-market hand.
Although the game is free-to-play, it offers the chance to purchase premium accounts, giving you a new gun, an item that gives you a shorter respawn time, and one that heals you once per spawn.
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