I'm really not sure you can compare the SA gated compounds they call houses, with a gated community in the UK. They're worlds apart in regard to crime, level of danger in the area, intensity of the situation, threat to property, threat to life, etc. People in SA are able to own guns because they need them for safety. A friend of mine, that's doing all the legal paperwork for our move, came over from SA years ago. His home had 2 armed guards (assault rifle armed guards) at all times. The walls were like 3 meters tall plus barbed wire. He owned a load of guns and regularly carried with him. One of the rules in SA is, if it's dark you DON'T stop at traffic lights, or you WILL die! BMW stands for Brick My Windows, in SA.
A few months ago a man saw someone in his car late one night, and shot them from his bedroom window. Turns out it was his daughter, whom he killed! The level of protection and the application of security over here and over there are HUGELY different!!! Comparing "We NEED this or we will all be killed" and "It keeps the riffraff (poor people) out" seems a bit wrong. It's not like keeping barbarians out, because the gated area I used to live in (no not a prison, before you say it BP) had small fences keeping the animals at bay, because it was surrounded by either a hefting stone wall, for privacy, or it was farm land. You don't pay £500k for a house and want it overlooking a road. A fence looks poor and crap, so an ornate wall will suffice.
In SA, if you're white, you live in a 'secure' zone. You don't have a mix of races. Communities are either black or white. ALL while people living in SA rural/suburban/urban/anywhere-in-SA HAVE to have gated property, guns, and dogs. It's literally a matter of life or death!
In my opinion, and that is only opinion and open to being wrong, it seems to be looking for news where there is none.
But I do get your point.
On a more light hearted note.
(14 February 2013, 14:19)NorthernRaider Wrote: I also recently read that many farmers are now being forced into installing better security systems for their farms and plant equipment because they are being targetted more and more by criminals who for some reason are not content living in those wonderful, diverse, inclusive, multi cultural socialist paradises that Labour created in our cities. CCTV, GPS tracking, better alarms, high security locks, heavy metal locking farm gates etc.
WHEN WILL YOU PEOPLE LEARN?!?!?!? IT'S NOT SAFE IN THE COUNTRY!!!! RURAL LIVING WILL GET YOU KILLED!!!!! haha, sorry mate, couldn't resist.
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