South Africa and mindless, voilent crime despite beautiful constitution.

A close friend of my family over many decades was tied up and suffocated on Tuesday night. He was living in a cottage on a small holding in Honeydew.
Immediately anybody who knows anything about the area will think squatter camps and these are a focal point and problem area for Honeydew residents, police and some politicians.
In the immediate aftermath of violent crime affecting ones close family, it is easy and once was cathartic, to screech about government inaction, bring back the death penalty and project the anger and violation into the ether and not bottle it up.
These actions brought nothing except a renewed sense of futility and expats saying things like, "we told you so", which also don't help and don't contribute anything positive.
My thoughts after a day of mulling and pondering are aimed straight at our much vaunted constitution that so values human rights and secondly at the undoubtedly fine minds that constructed it and now won't entertain any debate around it as if it is set in granite to stand as is forever.
With such a monumental contribution to human rights and democracy, why do we have not only violent crime but unnecessary and mindless violent crime. In fact, why not take the debate a step further and label this kind action as terorist.
The definition according to The Concise Oxford is, "a person who uses and favours violent and intimidating methods of coercing a government or community".
This aptly describes an action, by more than one person, of violence and intimidation against the community and it is a snub against our government and constitution.
Somewhere in our deliberations about the democracy we have created there was not enough thought about violent crime and its capacity to intimidate and coerce communities into emigrating, vigilateism and barricading of homes and offices against these terrorists and their activities.
Many have said that they would gladly hand over money and other valuables, which this individual did, but were horrified at the levels of mindless violence.
The minds that shaped and are still shaping our constitutional and political future have to apply time to the conundrum of where and when on the scale do people acting as terrorists lose their automatic right to an absolute level of human rights because they have violently abused others and taken law abiding citizens human rights away from them.
The right to life is enshrined in our contitution and yet daily this right is hijacked many times over. Forget the debates around death penalties and prisons full to burting, we have a culture of violence that permeates every sector of society and no practical recourse for law abiding citizens in our constitution.