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Guns are not a part of the culture of my homeland, except perhaps for the occasional Bollywood movie in which the bad guy meets his demise staring down the wrong end of a barrel.
My childhood in India was steeped in ahimsa, the tenet of nonviolence toward all living things.
The Indians may have succeeded in ousting the British, but we won with Gandhian-style civil disobedience, not a revolutionary war.
I grew up not knowing a single gun owner, and even today India has one of the strictest gun laws on the planet. Few Indians buy and keep firearms at home, and gun violence is nowhere near the problem it is in the United States. An American is 12 times more likely than an Indian to be killed by a firearm, according to a recent study.
It's no wonder then that every time I visit India, my friends and family want to know more about America's "love affair" with guns.
I get the same questions when I visit my brother in Canada or on my business travels to other countries, where many people remain perplexed, maybe even downright mystified, by Americans' defense of gun rights.
I admit I do not fully understand it myself, despite having become an American citizen nearly a decade ago. So when I learn the National Rifle Association is holding its annual convention here in Atlanta, right next to the CNN Center, I decide to go and find out more.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/world/indian-immigrant-nra-convention/index.html
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @05:11PM (1 child)
>as a cry to a time when you quite literally could be killed by a Grizzly bear in the middle of the night. Those days are gone, and they are not coming back.
When did bears lose the ability to maul and kill people?
>Same in China and other parts of Asia, as well as Europe. They're lightyears ahead of our stupid backwards country
Sounds like you need to emigrate.
>Can't wait until these redneck chucklefucks join the 21st Century along with the rest of Earth.
>by idiot_king (6587) on Thursday May 04, @04:37PM (#504382)
Username checks out. If you hate America so much, LEAVE! :P
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @06:15PM
When did bears lose the ability to maul and kill people?
When the liberal hoppophobes and the violently imposed tyrannical government took away the constitutional right to arm bears! That's when! How long before they make it illegal to bare arms, as well? Just the other night I found a Grizzly in my kitchen, and I could only make a strong request that he leave, since Obama took away my right to have guns, just because some shrink said I was crazy! Another Social Justice Warrior Shrink!! (Oh, and the bear apologized and left. Something about "the wrong house".)