From Gandhi to guns: An Indian woman explores the NRA convention

[sarisataka]

From Gandhi to guns: An Indian woman explores the NRA convention

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.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/world/indian-immigrant-nra-convention/index.html

Good article from a person who is willing to look past stereotypes and consider a topic with an open mind

[Lurks Often]

1. I'll point out that India's "intentional homicide rate" isn't much lower then the U.S.

India has a murder rate of 3.2 and 41,263 murders in 2014; The U.S. had a murder rate of 3.9 and 12,253 murders in 2013. Note that these are the total number of ALL murders, regardless of the method or tool used.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country

Overall, of 218 countries, by murder rate the United States is ranked 112th & India is ranked 127th

[virginia mountainman]

2. That was a good read..thanks for sharing..

Maybe CNN is trying to learn something...Well I can hope can't I...