Tweet from anupam kher

[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

[hardeepsinghbedi]

I think its a good culture. atleast with more updates and awareness new shooter will come and get medals for India.

[Bhargav]

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

[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.

[dr.jayakumar]

who cares whether he is sad?i am happy.
dr.jk

[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!

[mundaire]

Very well said essdee1972

Cheers!
Abhijeet

[pankajbanjara]

atleast game like target shooting cannot be fixed , for obvious reasons , so question of corruption in this game

[Bhargav]

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.

[JSBrar]

well said.

[brihacharan]

Hi SD,
to every word you have written!
You couldn't have put it better
Viva RKBA
Briha

[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..

[essdee1972]

Thank you, gentlemen, for your kind comments!

[airgun_novice]

As Sean Connery would have said -> "Sphlainndeed essdee1972" !

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.

[ruffian]

Very true Essdee1972...