South Africa's School Gun Crisis Expands: Atlantis Arrest Reveals Gaps in Prevention Strategy
The discovery of an unlicensed firearm in a high school backpack in Atlantis signals that South Africa's reactive search operations are failing to stop firearms from entering schools in the first place—raising urgent questions about how weapons are being smuggled into educational facilities and what structural changes are needed to interrupt the supply chain.
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