Gunshots are music to my ears

Sir,

Allow me space sir in your newspaper to declare my unequivocal support to the Swazi police shoot –to-kill response to crime. I differ with those who believe the police new stance on crime is in total violation of the right to life.

What Swazi cops are doing shows that they value the lives of innocent Swazis more than those of the criminals. If WE value something highly, we are usually willing to pay a high price for it. But if we consider it to be cheap, we will pay little or nothing for it. That is only reasonable.

Criminals must also pay for their crimes in equal proportion for the crime they commit. It’s fair.  The approach of criminals these days is to eliminate whatever obstacle is in front of them. And most of the time the obstacles happen to be human beings, who are ruthlessly and brutally killed if they stand in the way of a criminal trying to snatch his prize - be it a wallet, a car or some other possession.

So it is the police’s responsibility to protect the defenseless of our society not ‘romancing’ the criminals as they have been doing. To prove that criminals were ‘romanced,’ they even had guts to steal 6.2 million right under the police nose.

Another thing, there is a difference between murders which is what criminals are doing and killing. Murder in my book is a legal term for unlawful killing, just as “stealing” denotes unlawful taking.
Thus, if a policeman confiscates a criminal’s gun, it cannot be called “stealing.

” Neither can a lawful execution, by definition, be called “murder.” The only travesty I believe is when the police kill for negligible offences, which they must try to rectify. Otherwise the sound of the gun shot on criminals is music to my ears, soothing music.

simiso@yahoo.com
Mvembili

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