The terrorist strikes in Mumbai have got UndieTV's top brass going on an on about how the governments of Pakistan and India are going to get all these terror groups under control. Fond hope - and so statist. Prannoy Roy, a Rajiv Gandhi acolyte, Barkha Dutt et. al. are revealing their "knowledge" of terror and politics, and international affairs, but all this is like the proverbial pie in the sky. The State From On High Will Look After Us.
Prannoy Roy just announced a "War on Terror" - to be fought by our The State. Sounds familiar? Like Uncle Sam?
Down on the ground: If each honest man is to be safe, he must have his own gun.
Every honest woman should have one too.
They should be trained in weapons handling, with regular weekly practice.
That is how Switzerland is secure - and remains secure while staying out of war.
I sincerely doubt whether such a brazen strike by just 25 armed men would have caused so much damage and lasted so long if all decent Mumbaikars had guns of their own.
In fact, if they did have guns, such an attack would have perished at the thought itself. It would not have been even contemplated.
Ok, this time the NSG commandos did the hatchet job. But why forget the Congress mobs that killed thousands of innocent Sikhs in 1984, while the Delhi Police stood by, as lackeys of the Gandhis?
It surely cannot be that we honest citizens have no guns, while a monopolistic agency of our The State has all the guns?
Such a monopoly is bound to be misused - as in Delhi in 1984.
"We Don't Get Fooled Again"
So every honest man earns his (hard) money through voluntary exchanges in markets, courageously bears arms to defend himself and his properties and liberties - and that is how we become a land where "the mind is without fear and the head is held high."
Otherwise, we remain a nation of slaves.
Read about the district of Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh, where our The State provides no security through its monopolistic police, and no roads either - another monopoly - and how armed bands of robbers roam the countryside with unlicensed weapons. And, when the honest people demand gun licenses, our The State insists on vasectomy!
So if you get a gun, you have no children to bequeath the gun to.
Yeah! We Don't Get Fooled Again.
Also read my earlier post: On The Right To Bear Arms.
Thanks Sauvik!
ReplyDeleteWhen the media is in drought, you are a privilege we enjoy. Good reading to start a day.
Completely agree Sauvik. In addition to the points you made, I think that disarmed people tend to absolve themselves of the responsibility to look after themselves. They feel it is a job that has been completely handed over to the police. This kind of attitude negatively affects community policing - where people report suspicious people/activities or investigate strange behaviour. And it is this resultant apathy to security that allows armed thugs to plan operations.
ReplyDeleteI disagree. My view out here: http://donquixort.blogspot.com/2008/11/are-more-guns-solution.html
ReplyDeletei agree.
ReplyDeleteonly question is how does our The State provide assurance that a fucking Thuggeray wouldn't ground a teenager?... i mean i guess a hot-blooded 15 yr old wouldnt be carrying a weapon, would he?
Armed citizenry in our country is an absurd and horrific idea. Sure, we'd be able to defend ourselves from terrorists, but more often we'd be terrorising each other. We'd have massacres on a regular basis. We have more than enough conflict in our country. I'm grateful that it's not being encouraged by the government allowing everyone to have guns.
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ReplyDeleteBad idea.
ReplyDelete- We'll never carry our guns with us all the time (at least thats the hope that you can't enter public places a train station, movie hall or an airport with a gun).
- A commoner's gun and training would never meet the standards of these terrorists. For what its worth, there were security guards at CST and Taj (outnumbering the terrorists) with better training and guns that a common man could ever get. A terrorist comes firing at you with an AK47, you run like the rest of us, Neo!