Indians For Guns

I could really use photos of the event or the destruction after it, if any are available that are not copyrighted by news services. For now, here's one poster:



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Oleg Valk


Thats great but do make a poster highlighting the bravery of the bystanders fighting with stones

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... India.html

Best

I will do that, thanks for the idea. In the meantime:

Oleg
Ages ago I heard this (sic) comment "Cost of life in India is 25 paise ( Indian quarter) i.e cost of manufacturing a bullet" now I guess cost of life is nothing with terrorists bullets and bullets don't discriminate.

Oleg,

Your first poster says it all.

Thank you very much.

Mack The Knife

As requested: rocks

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Nice one ! This should be spread among the public.

Nice, really nice, Oleg.

It's taking shape. Maybe some graphics could be designed as a subtle prod at the brain-dead bureaucracy.

Why?- Well, the Indian Arms Act, while being severely restrictive, still allows for (or at least originally did) 'reasonably adequate' ownership. The problem is the provisions in the act allow too much latitude for interpretation by the bureaucracy and upto a good extent, the judiciary. I placed 'reasonably adequate', in quotes because its by no means ideal. One must remember that the Arms Act is just repainted version of the one that was in force in colonial India- like wise one can hardly expect it to be in tune with a free, democratic, modern nation.

Obviously, with regard to RKBA, one cannot expect 100% unregulated freedom in a country as big and diverse as India. Certainly some level of control and regulation is welcome and perhaps indispensable. The point to tackle is the unreasonable, illogical, unscientific and naive restrictions and interpretations that are afforded to the establishment by the provisions of the Arms Act.

As expected, a lot of things get interconnected- A less restrictive Arms Act will work only if there is a parallel advancement in Policing and related Crime Acts.... Our current Police Act is still mostly the Police Act of 1861- That was when the Police force was an instrument of arbitrary Colonial rule. Nobody in the establishment thought it fit for revision even after more than half a century of independence. Modifying or add-ons to the Act only complicates matters as I see. Well, to be fair, there has been efforts to formulate a new police act (with the standard establishment practice of constituting endless committees to that end) but they never went beyond the submission of the report. The political class has vested interest in seeing that the Policing remains as it is.

One must be aware, as penpusher rightly said, as of now, in India gun ownership is a privilege not a right.

Great work Oleg. captures the mood perfectly.
Try one using the quote from Gandhi in Abhijeet's post.

Ashok

Thanks Oleg,

I think these can make perfect stickers for IFG (with IFG url) if Oleg permit to print them

Great idea for IFG sticker on this .

These are great graphics, Oleg.
Very moving , particularly the "rocks" one.

You are welcome to make use of these. If you can get them published in Indian, great. Stickers -- great. No license fees necessary for me. Small byline would be nice, doesn't have to be immediately visible froma distance.

Oleg, very nice work indeed! Thank you for your support.

Would you be open to be contacted by someone from the Indian media? I ask as a journalist has sent me a request via e-mail. Also may I attach the above images to a post on my private blog (with due credit of course)?

Also, could you e-mail me the PSD files for these three graphics? My e-mail ID is abhijeet <at> abhijeetsingh <dot> com - I'd like to use some of them for a printed handout/ flyer.

Cheers!
Abhijeet

Yes to all but the files are too big for email. I will upload to my server (check olegvolk.net/india in a couple of days)