Gun Control

We Indians seemed to have inculcated the characteristics of the average Americans, trying to poke our nose in affairs that does not concern us. While most Americans in the guise of respecting privacy does not bother their neighbours or does not seem to be concerned what goes on around them, they sure are meddlesome and intrusive when it comes to world affairs.

These days we seemed to be taking a lot of interest regarding the recent gun control laws or the lack of it in the US.

To purchase a gun, one must make a statement and identify oneself. The application is sent to the police who after taking their own sweet time would decide depending on their whims and fancy, whether the applicant may own a gun on the basis of him being a law abiding person, (in other words whether or not he obeys every law of the Power Elite).

In US, gun ownership is denied to criminals, thieves, offenders, murderers, illegal aliens, users of drugs, dishonourably discharged veterans, anyone under 21, et al. They are seen as prospective or latent elements showing antipathy towards the ‘Establishment’. The ownership of automatic, large caliber, silencer and other varieties of firearms is also absolutely forbidden to one and all except the State.

Even those who qualify to own a gun goes through total scrutiny of their records with the police and Federal agencies snooping around the buyers. In some states, constant harassment by the police on anyone possessing a firearm is never ruled out.

In Miami, the situation can be translated from a chapter from 1984, a dystopian novel, written by George Orwell - where society is oppressed, intimidated and tyrannized by the Party, Big Brother and its totalitarian philosophy.

To apply for owning a gun, the applicant must submit extensive personal information to the police. Maybe very soon we will have a the then Rhodesia {now Zimbabwe} like US, where blacks were sentenced to death for the ‘crime’ of possessing firearms, where anyone carrying a weapon without police approval gets a 6 month prison term or a USD 1000 fine or both and where people were encouraged to squeal on their neighbours for a USD 100 bounty for ‘firearms violation’.


So what is the goal of the power structure? Is it the total abolition of private {read as non ruling class} gun ownership? Is it that the minimum they will settle for is the absolute police control of all firearms as is the case of Soviet Russia?

The mass is made to believe that such laws diminish crime. Does it? Does gun ownership by the general population cause crimes? Isn’t it that if one wants to kill another, the absence of a gun will not deter him to do so? Is anyone safe if there is a dearth of guns in the hands of a private owner? In Japan where civilian guns are banned, is the murder rate with guns lower than that in the US?

Let’s look at the other side. Owning a gun by the vast majority of the public serves to thwart crime. Peaceful individuals who may be armed may give second thoughts to the criminals, who may plan to slaughter or plunder. Would the criminals hesitate when they are sure that their victims are vulnerable and devoid of arms?

In any case, some criminals will always have guns (criminals don’t register their guns, and besides there are always the so called ‘country pistols’ and ‘pipe guns’), thus necessitating potential victims to arm themselves to avert crime. In other words, private guns will ward off crime.

Is the goal of State’s gun control artificial? What could be the real reason for the power elite to leave the people defenseless and at the mercy of the criminals? Are guns not necessary for peaceful individuals to defend or protect themselves from criminals? Does it work on the same principal for a State when they declare that to achieve peace, one must prepare for war? The US government has the largest arsenal in the world. When it comes to the government, they trust themselves to store everything from napalm to H-Bombs, but will not trust their private, peaceful citizens with hand guns. Why does not this trust exist?

The people {non ruling class} want to be free. Is a laissez faire gun ownership feared for the same reason that Hitler was afraid of a gun owning Jewish population or Stalin of a bunch of pistol packing Ukrainians? Or is it that the State is familiar with Mao’s aphorism: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”. The Rulers recognize that the only way to retain their control over the people is to monopolize firearms. The rulers realize that people can never exercise their RIGHT TO BE FREE if they have NO MIGHT TO BE FREE! This is how Big Brother achieves his domination over people. Soon there would be no guns in the hands of the mass, leaving the people vulnerable and at the mercy of the criminals.

Mass Civil Disobedience may turn out to be the only way to prevent Big Brother from entirely disarming his slaves.

On hindsight, one should wonder whether that appalling, grotesque, monstrous, atrocious, gruesome, heinous and horrendous crime against that 23 year old woman in a Delhi bus would have occurred, had that lady possessed a small gun in her vanity bag.

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