In January, a small group of enthusiasts met in Delhi to found The National Association of Gun Rights India (Nagri) to lobby lawmakers and to fund legal cases that make it easier to own and carry arms in India.
This month the organisation began a membership drive -- and in doing so, they have provoked a debate about the role of fire arms in the land of Mahatma Gandhi.
No way they're going to allow the average Indian to own a gun.
There's just too much exploitation of the poor. Letting them fight back would be bloody. Those Indian farmers might decide not to commit suicide but take it out on the money men instead.
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Many people don't know Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી,) was a veteran of two Wars.
Boer War
Zulu War of 1906
Gandhi actively encouraged the British to recruit Indians and even during World War I agreed to actively recruit Indians for the war effort.
Gandhi wrote "To bring about such a state of things we should have the ability to defend ourselves, that is, the ability to bear arms and to use them...If we want to learn the use of arms with the greatest possible despatch, it is our duty to enlist ourselves in the army."
He was assassinated trying to prevent a Muslim open civil war by Pakistan against India (Gandhi was Hindu and the Muslims didn't play well with others even back then)
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Gandhi pointed out three possible responses to oppression and injustice. One he described as the coward’s way: to accept the wrong or run away from it. The second option was to stand and fight by force of arms. Gandhi said this was better than acceptance or running away.
But the third way, he said, was best of all and required the most courage: to stand and fight solely by nonviolent means.
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