Gun crime - Each murder a threat to civil society

In the past 10 years there have been 148 gun murders in this country.

Only 16% of those have resulted in convictions. Thus, five of every six of those gun murderers appear to be getting away with the crime.

Part of the problem in solving such crimes is the difficulty in getting witnesses to come forward, because of intimidation. The gunmen and their accomplices have already demonstrated their readiness to kill, with the result that communities are terrorised into withholding evidence against gangland criminals.