Emily Williams’ family is going back to England
Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Richard Catto 2,863 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?
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