Indian women carrying on the rise

[Blackstone]

India has launched a new handgun for women, named after a student who was gang-raped in Delhi in December 2012 and later died of her injuries.

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The gun's launch has led Indians to debate whether carrying a gun makes a woman safer. Ram Krishna Chaturvedi, the chief of police for Kanpur and several nearby districts, thinks it does.

"It is definitely a good idea. If you have a licensed weapon, it increases your self-confidence and creates fear in the minds of criminals," she says.

I was always under the impression that guns were very strictly controlled in India, only allowed for sporting purposes. According to Gun Policy though, out of the estimated 40 million guns in private Indian hands, only 6.3 million are registered and legally held. With the number of rapes on the rise, women are quickly realising that the police are powerless to protect them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25727080

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

You GO, girls! Walk softly, and carry an adequate gun.

 

[armoredman]

Always a fan of seeing rapists get shot by the intended victim. However, a re-release of a Webley?
Love this quote from the Indian anti,

Nepram, whose organisation has been studying gun violence in eight Indian states for a number of years, says having a gun doesn't "make you safer, it actually enhances your risk"."Our research shows that a person is 12 times more likely to be shot dead if they are carrying a gun when attacked," she says.

Care to show us this "research"? With real stats? Sheesh, worse than the Brady Bunch.

According to this line, it looks like India's self defense statutes are in need of serious revamp.

Even if the Delhi rape victim had owned a gun, he says, it would not have been much help, considering she was returning home after watching a film in a theatre in a mall where she wouldn't have been allowed to carry her weapon.

And if she had been armed, and she had shot any of her attackers the chances are she would have spent the rest of her life in jail on charges of murder, he says.

 

[Justin]

Care to show us this "research"? With real stats? Sheesh, worse than the Brady Bunch.

Sounds like her "research" constitutes a quick reading of the discredited Kellermann study.

 

[Arizona_Mike]

"You can't rape a .38".

Mike

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

Ah, but I heard this new gun is a .32..............

 

[ratt_finkel]

I'd consider this a win for the good guys, or girls in this case. More power to them.

 

[Mike1234567]

Good for them!! Maybe the crazies will think twice before abusing woman and maybe at least some of those who try to will pay the ultimate price... and this removes them out of the gene pool.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Well, at $2k a gun I doubt there will be many sold. Sounds like a class thing to me.

 

[Blackstone]

I don't understand why the gun is so expensive. I'm sure there are plenty of more affordable guns, it's just encouraging that the trend of women getting guns for self defence is increasing. Don't know how difficult it is to get a gun licence though.

 

[mgmorden]

I don't understand why the gun is so expensive. I'm sure there are plenty of more affordable guns, it's just encouraging that the trend of women getting guns for self defence is increasing. Don't know how difficult it is to get a gun licence though.

Sounds kind of difficult to get the license.

Have to be 21.
Have to provide a "justification" for owning a gun.
Have to submit to a mental and health check.
Handguns only (and though the article says no "automatics" I'm guessing they meant no semi-autos, so revolvers only)
Can only own a total of 3 guns and license must be renewed every three years.

So with all that there would seem to be a very small market for "legal" guns (the article mentions that only 15% of the guns in India are legal though). With that small of a market its going to be hard for a manufacturer to tool up and make them in quantity which is what drops prices.

They said in the article that so far only 10 of these guns has been sold. Can you imagine what S&W would charge for a revolver that they only made 10 of?

 

[Sol]

Not a class thing it's a caste thing, besides Darra still produces illegal handguns for the lower castes.

 

[MagnumDweeb]

While I applaud more women getting the right to own guns. I clicked on more of the related story for the site and found that there is no concealed carry right. The cost of a legal firearm is ridiculous (over $1,300 in most cases in a country where that is an entire years earnings).

But if you are a criminal, cheap guns are easy to come by, some as cheap as a $120 and there is a proliferation of them it turns out. Some are full-autos, some are actually revolvers. I went and looked further and the illegal revolvers of India are not terribly poor guns it looks like. I wouldn't make one my first choice but if I needed a throw away gun for a hit I'd use it for that purpose.

India is another flipping joke, I'm sorry. There was one article where politicians known a MPs are able to buy all kinds of guns the regular law abiding public can't get their hands on and they can make these purchases while being convicted criminals or under indictment for a serious crime. Seriously what is wrong with this country.

Then you look a little further and you realize that the criminal element in India is starting to more and more entrench itself in politics it turns out. So you can see why they don't want the public to own guns (uh Sullivan Act for $800 Alex).

These are the kinds of controls and restrictions that the Antis want to impose on us. Look to Mexico, look to India, tell the Antis not only no, but hell no.

 

[torqem]

And who is carrying all these Indian women? That's a helluva man. I want to meet him!