United Liberty
IN LIGHT OF THE EARLIER DISCUSSIONS about Mumbai and the value of an armed citizenry, it’s worth noting that India apparently has strict gun control laws that, as usual, don’t seem to have kept guns out of the hands of killers.
Being raised in urban areas, my knee-jerk reaction to gun violence is gun control. However, it’s very obvious that serial killers and terrorists intent on wreaking havok are going to find a way to do so, laws be damned, and gun control laws can take guns out of the hands of people that need to defend themselves. Brian Doherty also notes this at Reason.
What we have here is a failure of government to act on intelligence, not a failure of gun control.
“And Indian officials are under pressure to explain the lapse of security that allowed the siege to occur. Indian security forces have confirmed to CNN that not only did U.S. officials warn them of a waterborne attack in Mumbai — they were told twice.
The United States warned the Indian government about a potential maritime attack against Mumbai at least a month before last week’s massacre in the country’s financial capital left nearly 180 dead, a U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN.”
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