AFRICAN VILLAGE uses DIY guns to fight rapists.

More here: “The Obo scouts represent a phenomenon found in many conflict zones. When government or occupying armies fail to provide security, vulnerable communities often organize their own forces. It has happened in northern Iraq’s besieged Christian communities, across Afghanistan and, most famously, in Sunni-dominated north-central Iraq, where volunteer ‘Sons of Iraq’ groups helped turn the tide against Iraqi insurgents. . . . The implications of Obo’s self-defense efforts are huge for vulnerable communities across Africa, for the rebel groups that threaten them, and for the central governments whose legitimacy erodes by the day, as everyday people build their own armies and intelligence apparatuses from scratch.” When governments fail to provide basic security, people resort to self-help. The results aren’t always pretty, but even the ugly ones are an indictment of authorities’ incompetence or unconcern. Note the comments on that last link . . .