Another day, another reminder of how little some people value law and order.

Maybe it’s just bravado and bluster but these two bodyguards, “assigned to protect one of the ANC’s key leaders in KwaZulu-Natal”, aren’t exactly setting a good example.

The men were hired as part of eThekwini region chairman Bheki Ntuli’s security detail, and are shown threatening to kill “a dog” whilst brandishing what looks like an AK-47 assault rifle:

According to eNCA, the two men in the video have been fired and the ANC are “traumatised”:

…the ANC in eThekwini said it was “shocked and traumatised” by the video. It said that the security detail for officials was outsourced to private companies and that the regional secretary could not have known of the bodyguards’ conduct. “In this regard, there will be strong engagements with the company that is the employer of the security personnel implicated in this incident.”

It’s not just a moral issue, either, because only around 200 people in the whole country are authorised to own original AK-47s. That being said, Gun Owners South Africa chairman Paul Oxley believes the weapons shown are semi-automatic, which are used by many security companies.

According to SA Gun Owners’ Association chairman Martin Hood, they still fall foul of the law:

“Forget whether it is an AK-47 or semi-automatic or whatever, what they are doing is illegal. The Firearms Control Act specially deals with carrying firearms in public, and the Act provides that if you’re going to carry a weapon in public it must be concealed. Simple. If they don’t conceal it, they are committing an offence. When it comes to a rifle, the act dictates it must be in a bag or carrier,” [Hood] said.

Don’t wave your guns around like a bunch of dickheads whilst threatening violence seems to be the moral of the story here.

[sources:enca&timeslive]