Beaten to death for refusing to give bribe in u.p.

The spirit of this post is well taken.

I fully endorse that police force, for that matter pErmanents in governMINT per se are definitely corrupt, burden (who should be shot at without mercy). 'Fence eats grass'. It should be punished.  That fellow should be dismissed outright and should be stripped of all his property, earnings etc to be passed on to the victim's family.

Nevertheless, I only wonder what will happen if this literally happens in day to day society, where all and sundry own weapons.

"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin

Arms are a basic human right and fundamental right. Nothing negative is going to happen. Blood will not start flowing on the streets. Disarming the people and keeping them ignorant of this most basic and important right is the clever trick employed by the corrupt and undemocratic people all through the ages. This has been going on from day one under one excuse or other.

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."  William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783

There are many parts in the country where almost all people own weapons. In Kodagu district of Karnataka Coorgs are keep guns without any kind of license nder Arms Act. Blood is not flowing on the streets. In Punjab, Rajasthan etc. it is common for the households to keep swords and other weapons. Blood is not flowing on the streets. Gurkhas keep Khukris. Blood is not flowing on the streets. There was no Arms Act applicable in Rajputana States during the British rule. Blood was not flowing on the streets.

Hence your fear is not based on any facts or truth but on personal imagination.

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." - Alexander Hamilton

‘‘...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.’’— Alexander Hamilton

‘‘Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.’’— Thomas Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764

“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon, and citizen’s firearms are indelibly related. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this land knows firearms, and more than 99.99% of them by their silence indicate they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place with all that’s good. When firearms go, all goes; we need them every hour.”-George Washington

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” - Thomas Paine

"The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong."  Thomas Paine