Well at least South Africa put into place those tough new gun control laws

I guess that it will just take more time for those gun laws to really kick in and start lowering the crime rate in South Africa:

Polling Data

Would you say the level of criminal activity in South Africa has increased, stayed the same, or decreased over the past year?

Increased 75%

Stayed the same 16%

Decreased 9%

Source: ACNielsen
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 2,457 Urban South African adults, conducted in April 2007. Margin of error is 1.3 per cent.