Emily Williams’ family is going back to England

Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Richard Catto 2,871 views

On February 12 2008, 12 year old Emily Williams was shot and killed by armed robbers while she sat in her mom’s car outside the house that was being robbed. I wrote about this a week after the event and pondered why her mother had remained smack in the centre of the hot zone, when she had been concerned enough about the situation to call for help.

Now her family has recently announced that they’re emigrating to England because they no longer feel safe in South Africa. Well, as it turns out, when you read the IOL article you discover that they’re not emigrating at all. Roger Williams is British and so he’s going home. The only ones who are emigrating are his South African wife, Toni, and their daughter, Sophie.

Poor 10 year old Sophie, being dragged off to dreary dismal and unsafe England just because her mother failed to do the sensible thing and get clear of a dangerous situation.

The Williams protest that they feel everyone has a right to go about their business without having to worry about crime.

What a load of shit.

Thoughout history men and women and children have had to contend with the threat of crime and violence, threat of abduction into slavery, threat of rape, threat of being robbed at sword point, and threat of being killed. Crime will never ever ever disappear. We will always have crime in every single country on the face of this planet for as long as people are alive.

Even in Britain, there is crime for you to worry about. You will never find a place to run to which will offer you a crime free zone. It simply does not exist.

America is even safer than Britain and the reason is because America is flooded with guns. In America, if you feel threatened by crime, you go buy a gun, and many households have one. In some US cities, local laws compel each household to own a gun.

In Britain, if you feel threatened by crime, you can’t buy a gun. I actually don’t know what the hell you do in Britain if you feel threatened by crime. Maybe you emigrate to America?

Tags: Britain, Crime, Emily Williams, guns, United States
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Death of a 12 year old child – does this make sense to you?

Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Richard Catto 3,120 views

How much sense does this make to you?

You’re a mom with kids in your car (including your own) on the way to school and you stop off to pick up another kid. Whilst sitting outside in your car, a suspicious man comes out of the house and ignores your questions as to who he is and then goes back into the house you are waiting outside.

So you call Chubb Security (and only them, not also the police). Then you wait outside the house for security to arrive, instead of driving off to a safe distance. Then when security arrives, the criminals inside the house open fire on the security guards and one of your daughters inside your car is hit and killed.

Does it make sense to hang around in a potential battle zone with or without kids?

This is what happened on Tuesday, February 12 2008 to Emily Williams, a 12 year old grade 7 pupil, whose mother did not think to get clear of the area. Only after the gun battle erupted and after her daughter had been struck did she think it was now a good time to drive off, vainly trying to reach medical aid in time to save her daughter.

That’s like standing on the beach watching the tsunami waves rolling in, calling for help and only thinking of flight once the waves are already crashing over your head.

Surely it makes sense to run for high ground first and then call for help?

What was that mother thinking? Am I being insensitive for second guessing a woman who has just lost one of her daughters to crime?

Obviously, I am saddened by the loss to violent crime of yet another young person, but reading the account on iAfrica it just struck me how irrationally that mother behaved.

What do you think about this?

Tags: Chubb security, Crime, Emily Williams, SAPS, Trinity House Preparatory School
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