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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @10:00PM (5 children)
I guess you don't have a clue why the Second Amendment is so popular these days.
Because a black man getting elected president scared the ever living shit out of a bunch of white snowflakes.
The denegroification of the whitehouse has calmed all their nerves and since the election guns sales are down so much that Remington had to lay off 120 full-time employees while Smith & Wesson's share price has declined 32% #MAGA!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @01:27AM
First, it isn't Smith & Wesson any more.
Now it's American Outdoor Brands.
From a March 14 article: [zerohedge.com]
Between Election day and Mid-March, their stock went from $28.39 to $19.13. [zerohedge.com]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @01:48AM
all your get whitey propaganda is just going to get more non whites killed. how do you think whites conquered the world? your race exists at our whim. you are a whining, hungry dog. get too nippy and we'll put one through your mangy head.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday May 05 2017, @07:06AM (2 children)
Because a black man getting elected president scared the ever living shit out of a bunch of white snowflakes.
What did Obama's blackness have to do with it? Let us keep in mind that Obama was an outspoken advocate for strong gun control. The same purchasing frenzy happened last year when Clinton, another gun control advocate, looked like she would get elected.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @09:07AM (1 child)
What did Obama's blackness have to do with it?
What did khallow's cluelessness have to do with it?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday May 05 2017, @02:51PM