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Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 11:36 pm
by Bhargav
Recently the veteran actor anupam kher tweeted this:

@AnupamPkher: The latest Culture in India is….. GUN Culture. Sad but True.

It sure went to a huge group of his followers but not sure if it is a good impact or bad!

Some people surely responded that RKBA is a right. This makes me happy :)

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:28 am
by hardeepsinghbedi
I think its a good culture. atleast with more updates and awareness new shooter will come and get medals for India.

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:30 am
by Bhargav
hardeepsinghbedi wrote:I think its a good culture. atleast with more updates and awareness new shooter will come and get medals for India.
I agree, but its definitely not SAD :)

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:39 am
by hardeepsinghbedi
I think people should respect this game like another games. If some people are doing wrong things with guns that dosent mean people should not have gun culture. In that case some cricketers are involved with bookies to fix matches that dosent mean that having cricket craze is bad thing.

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 8:49 am
by dr.jayakumar
who cares whether he is sad?i am happy.
dr.jk

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:54 am
by essdee1972
Mr. Kher, much as I respect him as an actor, is jumping the gun here. We only have (now) a vocal group of people talking about RKBA. The licensing and other stuff remain as archaic, colonial, feudal, and red-taped as ever. A few powerful bigwigs walking around with guns and threatening / shooting people does not make a culture. The same class of people were called "maharajas" and "zamindars" in the colonial days, and did basically the same thing. This is basically a "mera baap kaun hai" culture, in which if your daddy (or anyone) is powerful enough, that power seeps into you, and you get immunity from normal laws.

Gun culture will come when everybody has equal rights to have arms, regardless of "mera baap kaun hai". When a drunk son of a corrupt politician will be scared to pull his gun at a waitress, because not only the waitress is armed, but almost all the other patrons are armed, and may just be "faster on the draw" than this drunk laadla beta. When a poor guy at a toll booth can blow the c*** out of the big headed imbecile who tries to shoot the toll guy for a measly 50 or 100 bucks.

If there were true gun culture here, the poor lady wouldn't have been gangraped in Delhi yesterday till she passed out and then some. She wouldn't have been in the ICU, but the 5 or 6 rapists would have been there, peppered with holes.

When that day dawns, gentlemen, will be the true gun culture! Mr. Kher and others can then migrate somewhere else!

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 11:47 am
by mundaire
Very well said essdee1972 :clap: :clap:

Cheers!
Abhijeet

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:04 pm
by pankajbanjara
atleast game like target shooting cannot be fixed , for obvious reasons , so question of corruption in this game

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:44 pm
by Bhargav
essdee1972 wrote:Mr. Kher, much as I respect him as an actor, is jumping the gun here. We only have (now) a vocal group of people talking about RKBA. The licensing and other stuff remain as archaic, colonial, feudal, and red-taped as ever. A few powerful bigwigs walking around with guns and threatening / shooting people does not make a culture. The same class of people were called "maharajas" and "zamindars" in the colonial days, and did basically the same thing. This is basically a "mera baap kaun hai" culture, in which if your daddy (or anyone) is powerful enough, that power seeps into you, and you get immunity from normal laws.

Gun culture will come when everybody has equal rights to have arms, regardless of "mera baap kaun hai". When a drunk son of a corrupt politician will be scared to pull his gun at a waitress, because not only the waitress is armed, but almost all the other patrons are armed, and may just be "faster on the draw" than this drunk laadla beta. When a poor guy at a toll booth can blow the c*** out of the big headed imbecile who tries to shoot the toll guy for a measly 50 or 100 bucks.

If there were true gun culture here, the poor lady wouldn't have been gangraped in Delhi yesterday till she passed out and then some. She wouldn't have been in the ICU, but the 5 or 6 rapists would have been there, peppered with holes.

When that day dawns, gentlemen, will be the true gun culture! Mr. Kher and others can then migrate somewhere else!
Very well said and its so true.

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:02 pm
by JSBrar
well said.

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:15 pm
by brihacharan
Hi SD,
:agree: to every word you have written!
You couldn't have put it better :D
Viva RKBA
Briha

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:19 pm
by gladiatorgarg
I only agree with the "SAD" part n i.e. mr kher such a polished,cultured,& matured person himself could make such a silly statement...he has saddened all gun lovers..

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 4:26 pm
by essdee1972
Thank you, gentlemen, for your kind comments!

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:35 pm
by airgun_novice
As Sean Connery would have said -> :clap: "Sphlainndeed essdee1972" ! :agree:

Kher obviously alludes to terrorism (in J&K) as "gun culture". If he views objectively then he shall see that the "gun culture" is in fact the answer to "goon culture" prevailing and pervading everywhere in India. Why the gun culture? It's a bulwark against the goon culture. At personal level if he does not want guns in his house he's perfectly fine to vice *that* opinion - but then when he talks of "culture" and society then obviously he has to speak in terms of totality.

If he's so much concerned about spreading the positive message in the society why does he then seek out roles like those in Karma or Jaal-the Trap where the bad character actually justifies his action by showing India in poor light ? Now Mr. Kher, better the gun culture come in than destruction of the culture... and civilization.

Re: Tweet from anupam kher

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:31 pm
by ruffian
Very true Essdee1972... :agree: