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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: 2) by art guerrilla on Friday May 05 2017, @12:41AM (1 child)
you are not paying attention, and are virtue signaling out your ass, save it for someone who cares about that idiotic, time-wasting bullshit...
i did NOT say their movement was violent because they had violence perpetrated upon them, YOU JUST MADE THAT SHIT UP... MY POINT WAS, the movement can be 100 % non-violent, yet there was still violence, wasnt there ? ? ?
that the violence was all on the part of the state doesnt negate there was still violence... you think that is meaningless; i would suggest those who were beaten or died are not quite as sanguine about it... pretty easy to be non-violent and all super-new-testament-jesusy when it is someone else taking the beating...
my other point stands in spite of your reliance on hopium kryptonite to save the day (one of these millennia), the state doesnt give a flying fuck all you mooing, pink cat-earred, latte-sipping, fake pwogwessives are weally, weally, hiwee pwincipled, and -like- totally non-violent...
the
state
doesnt
give
a
shit
they see a mass movement and equate it to a violent overthrow...
again, DOES NOT MATTER your pureness of intention, blah, blah, blah...
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oh, and all those color 'revolutions' you point to, um, just WHAT is the status of these 'revolutions' ? ? ?
(the UKRAINE ? OUR little neo-nazi coup (krime against humanity), you have got to be fucking kidding me, boychik...)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @05:10AM
holy shit, you are triggered as fuck!
I guess that is what happens when someone with a completely unrealistic world-view is faced with evidence that punctures their bubble