When I was young, there was a little ditty we guys would sing:
This is my rifle,
And this is my gun,
This is for shooting,
This is for fun.
However, it seems that in India, you cannot have both.
It is either one, or the other.
The district spenders (not "collectors") of Madhya Pradesh, where lawlessness is rampant, issue gun licenses only to those who undergo vasectomies. If you are sterilized, our The State will grant you a gun license. If not, no gun for you.
Of course, our The State is not known to keep its promises – observe the meaningless promise on the currency note with Gandhi's portrait on it. So there are many residents of Madhya Pradesh who have lost their guns without getting rifles in exchange.
Read the full story here. And think of the poor sods whom the local administration has cheated. These are those who are not "protected" by the police anyway. These are people who need to travel on dangerous routes, where armed dacoits, Naxals and their ilk roam free. In much of Madhya Pradesh (and Chattisgarh, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh) our The State does not exist. (And maybe that's a blessing, which we need to build upon.)
What do we do?
I suggest that you get an illegal gun and keep it for your own safety.
As Abhijeet Singh of IndiansForGuns.com has commented on this blog, legal guns cost anywhere between 1,00,000 and 2,50,000 rupees in India – and that is, after you get a gun license.
If you buy an illegal gun, you pay not more than 25,000 rupees.
There is thus no incentive to own a legal gun.
While in Delhi, I had the occasion to discuss guns with many friends who live in the countryside. They all said that, back home, they kept an illegal gun nicknamed "addhi": this is a shotgun with both the barrel and the stock sawn off. So it was half the size of a shotgun – hence the name "addhi," which means half. They said the "addhi" costs 3000 rupees. Now, that's a gun even everyone can afford.
And you don't lose your other gun either.
Win-Win.
(There is a fascinating article on the illegal gun factories of Uttar Pradesh here.)
Workers of the world Unite!
ReplyDeleteYou have nothing to lose but your chains!
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
ReplyDeleteYou are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.
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ReplyDeleteHere is a grand opportunity to sharpen your thought processes, ask yourself questions and analyse the reality yo live in.
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ReplyDeleteFirst, I would rather extend the private property regime to the 90 per cent who are not protected by it. You want to dispossess the 10 per cent. But you will never be able to run a functioning society without private property. Keep watching Prachanda in Nepal and see if he abolishes private property.
Second: the civilized order of the urban free market knows no "comrades." In this order, we are all competing Individuals, competing as buyers, competing as sellers. We are not a tribe, a collective or a clan. You yearn for a past, when men moved in groups. This is your "atavism."
I also want to buy addhi where i can buy in north india
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WOW DUDE I LIKE THE "addhi" U DESCRIBE, I WANNA HAVE ONE OF THOSE.
ReplyDeleteBUT WISH IF A PICTURE OF IT WILL BE AVAILABLE ON "GOOGLE", WHO CAN RESIST FOR THAT. MAN WE CAN BEAT TALIBANS & AMERICANS IN ARM RACE..
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