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Monday, December 01, 2008

Gun Control Didn’t Help The Victims Of The Mumbai Attacks

In the wake of mass shootings in the United States gun control advocates are routinely heard to blame it on Americans’ love of guns and our nation’s relatively loose (compared to other nations) policies on gun ownership.  But now Mumbai has suffered a mass shooting and India has no 2nd amendment.  No “gun culture” on par with America’s.  And some of the strictest gun laws in the world.

And none of those things stopped the attack in Mumbai.

In fact, it could be argued that if security guards in India had been allowed to carry firearms (it is very difficult to get such permits thanks to India’s strict gun laws), and if private citizens in India had a right to carry, quite a few lives could have been saved.

Comments

It’s like the Laffer curve for taxes; few seem to understand the inverse relationship of gun rights and gun violence.

Greg on December 1, 2008 at 03:46 pm

Wow! big shocker. Another country with ultra-strict gun control laws is turned into a target rich environment for homicidal maniacs. I bet India’s liberal idiots are real proud of their “common sense” gun control laws today. I’m sure that arrogant FOOL Obama is shocked that some crazy assholes disregarded “common sense” gun laws yet again and slaughtered unarmed citizens. Good job India, I’m sure all of the terrorists on the globe hope the rest of the countries on earth protect their people with the same “common sense” gun laws like yours.

AR-15 on December 1, 2008 at 09:01 pm

Probably would have helped as well (H/T 2H9 I believe) if the police hadn’t been told to hold their fire until given the command to return fire--he suggested that they’d gotten flak for actually shooting homicidal maniac terrorists, and thus were given bizaare rules of engagement.

I don’t know how much better firearms laws would have helped, but I don’t think it could have hurt.  Keep in mind here that it isn’t exactly cheap to buy a firearm and learn to use it, and India is still a poor country.  So it’s not clear that many people would have taken the government up on the right to carry there. 

(other example of this principle; big cities like Minneapolis don’t seem to have many people using carry permits....hence crime continues unabated)

Bike Bubba on December 2, 2008 at 12:47 pm
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Where’s the lefty trolls?

John D on December 3, 2008 at 01:17 pm
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