Well it appears your opinion is grounded upon the Utopian idea of a world were nobody is armed. Very good idea indeed. But till now it has not been achieved anywhere. Arms act or no arms act the criminals by their very nature of business always keep themselves armed. Are the insurgents in JK, Northeast or Maoists lining up at licensing authourities to get arms licenses? Rather they have prohibited arms like RPGs, landmines, mortars, machine guns etc. for which licenses are not granted. Are the criminals dependent on licensed firearms to conduct there business in this country?
Any form of violence is facilitated by imbalance of power. The attackers take advantage of gun control as it ensures their security and use their numerical and physical strength to commit violent crime. If people have guns, balance of power and violence under control. Criminal would have to put his life at risk before choosing to commit a violent crime and not vice versa(of putting the life of their victims at risk).
Can you please prove were on earth gun control has been able to reduce crime? On the contrary it has always been advocated by criminals, racist and colonial people as it creates a safe environment for them.
1) England has one of the toughest gun control law in the world, it has highest crime rate in Europe.
2) Australia introduced gun control, crime graph spirraled upwards.
2) 95% of crime happens in those states of America that have toughest gun control laws.
4) India has one of the toughest gun control laws in the world. MHA has given an executive order on 31.3.2010 to all states/union territories to not issue arms licenses to citizens except for MPs/MLAs and government officials. No arms licenses are boeing issued to citizens except those mentioned. Is India becoming any more safer? Crime rate is spiralling upwards. I have already presented the data of National Crime Records Bureau. The overwhelming number of murders committed in this country are committed using means other than firearms, a fact that is supported by data published by the National Crime Records Bureau, for e.g. in the year 2007, 85.53% of all murders committed were using means and weapons other than firearms (blunt & sharp edged weapons etc.). It is of no consolation to the victims of crimes if they are assaulted or murdered using a firearm or by any other means. On the other hand firearms enable citizens to better defend themselves against criminal aggression, by helping neutralise the numerical and/ or physical advantage of the attacker. It is clear that strict gun control policies do nothing to curb violent crime, a point made even more evident by the statistics mentioned above, the need of the hour is not stricter gun laws, but better policing and enforcement of existing criminal laws combined with more armed law abiding civilians.
5) Check the list of gun advocates, their stated motives and their real motives behind it, e.g. Hitler, Lenin, Stalin were one of the staunchest gun control supporters. Whole world knows their actual intent and how many innocent people they rounded up, aided by their "gun control" and killed them. Also the following cannot be ignored:
1. Gun control by British in India after 1857 was to suppress any future popular civil uprising, thousands defenseless rounded up and killed e.g. Jallianwala Bag massacre. So called "Gun Control" by Arms Act 1959 helps criminals attack thousands of defenseless men and women to be killed, injured, raped, kidnapped etc. every year in India. Criminals are having a merry time in India due to so called "Gun Control". Entire democracy has been for all practical purposes hijacked by criminal elements. Criminal/politicians are "winning" elections with help of so called "Gun Control" as their henchmen armed with all kinds of illegal weapons are able to terrorize the voters to either vote for them or refrain from voting.
2. 1911, Turkey established gun control, between 1915-17, 1.5 million Armenians rounded up and killed.
3. 1918, after Russian civil uprising of 1917(Russian Revolution) to prevent similar uprisings, Britain introduced gun control in it's colonies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It was also introduced in Britain, since many people residing in colonies also had their relatives, friends and sympathizers in Britain. Around the same time, in India the concept of "Prohibited Bore" and "Non Prohibited Bore" was introduced to further tighten the already existing draconian gun control.
4. 1929 USSR established gun control, between 1929-53 over 20 million political opponents rounded up and killed.
5. 1938 Germany established gun control, between 1939-45 over 13 million Jews, gypsies, homos*xuals, mentally
ill, union leaders, Catholics and others rounded up and killed.
6. 1935 China established gun control, between 1948-52 over 20 million political opponents rounded up and killed.
7. 1956 Combodia established gun control, 1975-77 over 1 million rounded up and killed.
8. 1970 Uganda established gun control, till 1979 over 300,000 Christians rounded up and killed.
List can be endless about people getting killed because they are not able to excercise the God given fundamental right of self defense daily around the world because of Gun Control.
Even the Apostle of Peace, Mahatma Gandhi, protested for the right of every Indian citizen to keep and bear arms, going so far as to state that, “Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest”. Just think who are the real beneficiaries of gun control, the criminals or law abiding citizens.
‘‘To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.’’— George Mason
‘‘...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
