Hello everyone. This is my first thread in the forum and it's concerning something that I believe to be very important in a democratic country like India. The right to self defense and bear arms. The current gun control laws are rediculas to say the least. Its difficult for a common Indian to have a 9 mm. While the criminals, gangsters and terrorists both inside and outside the nation have it. I hope you guys understand whom I am talking about. So why a common office goer middle class Hindu be devoid of his rights. Another important and a bit surprising fact I came across was that even Gandhi was against gun control calling it and I quote
“Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.”
The biggest objection that the anti gun lobby has is about the use of guns in criminal activities and shootings that may happen like USA. And these are genuine concerns. No denying that but could it be good enough reason to deny a common citizen his right to defend his family against rioting mobs and terrorists like what happened in kashmir. Now same is happening in Kerala, Karnataka and Bengal.
At the end I would just like to point out that the gun control was brought by Britishers after 1857 to control any further rebellion. The impact it had on our society was far more deep. Hindus became timid and defensive. We need to get rid of this psychology. I would like the members to express their views and how can we make our demand known and the act changed as per requirement by raising the issue through social media.
You all can read more about this law here :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Act,_1959
