From Gandhi to guns: An Indian woman explores the NRA convention (Iran, CNN)

[kell490]

I always love when people make India out to be a country which is crime free isn't that the place where a woman was gang raped with steel rebar? Government corruption is out of control.

From Gandhi to guns: An Indian woman at the NRA - CNN.com


Quick check on wikipedia says 25k cases a year of rape are reported sounds like a place where a woman could use a gun to defend herself.

[T-310]

I give no credence to their observations.

[uggabugga]

meh,it's not such a bad article. she was more open minded than I expected.

[Kracer]

Originally Posted by kell490

I always love when people make India out to be a country which is crime free isn't that the place where a woman was gang raped with steel rebar? Government corruption is out of control.

From Gandhi to guns: An Indian woman at the NRA - CNN.com


Quick check on wikipedia says 25k cases a year of rape are reported sounds like a place where a woman could use a gun to defend herself.

stay away from kerosine stoves if her family can't cough up the full dowry. Guns are the least of women's problems.


"Dowry deaths are deaths of young women who are murdered or driven to suicide by continuous harassment and torture by husbands and in-laws in an effort to extort an increased dowry. Dowry deaths are found in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Iran. India reports the highest total number of dowry deaths with 8,391 such deaths reported in 2010, 1.4 deaths per 100,000 women."

[theluckygal]

I grew up in India & moved here few years back. I am still horrified when I read local news back home about lynching beef eaters, gang rapes, honor killings, riots & discrimination. The matrimonial ads clearly state that the groom is only interested in very fair brides. Sexual harassment at work place is still a huge issue & dowry harassment is common. You dont cast your vote in India, you vote your caste. The current prime minister of India Narender Modi was on terrorist list & was deniedusa visa as he was involved in 'purging' of muslims when he was the chief minister of his state. The current education minister is a college dropout small time tv star like kim kardashian

[Haakon]

How many other countries have the right to bear arms written into their very foundation? It's unique and because of that, foreigners often have trouble grasping it.

The gun laws in India stem from colonial rule, when the British aimed to quell their subjects by disarming them. Perhaps my Indian compatriots should consider the right to own guns from this perspective.

The great equalizer. I never thought of the Second Amendment in that way.

I grew up in a city that now brims with some 16 million people on a working day. Firing guns in my grandfather's garden would not have been a good thing. I think about all the space we have in America. So many of us live far from other human beings. Like the Long family. Perhaps isolation adds to the need to own guns.

I hear gun proponents express a dislike for big government. They stress individual liberties over the collective. For people who live in more socialist countries, it's another obstacle to understanding American gun culture.

Again, I think of colonialism in my homeland and how the British passed strict gun control to keep Indians from rising up.

I wonder if she'll be fired from CNN for having even mildly open minded positions on firearms.

[Maccabee 2A]

My first thought when I saw the article was "for Pete's sake, lady, finger off the trigger!"