Why "Right to bear arms" is not recognized as liberty in India!

[timmy]

I have to say that I stand for guns to be part of everyone's right. There was a very famous former slave in the USA named Frederick Douglass. He had escaped slavery and became a passionate advocate for civil rights and freedom for all people. He is not hard to find in many articles on line, should anyone wish to read about him.

To have freedom in a society, Douglass said, a person needed to have equal access to the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. Douglass recognized the importance of these rights as being essential to an individual's freedom in a nation.

Should a person not be qualified to own a gun, this right must not be taken away from him because he looks like a beggar, or has an otherwise undesirable appearance. Such action must only be undertaken in a court of law, where each side in this contention to take away a right has access to all of the evidence and can cross examime it, and then a decision can be made on the facts, not some person's whim. Too many times, people in power exercise their own bigotry and prejudice on these matters of who can do what, and this is nothing more than tyranny -- maybe on the small scale of the street corner, but the tyranny of one man assertiing power over another man's life.

This is wrong.

We have well-established ways of adjudicating these matters, but they must be followed.

So a person does look like a beggar, and lives in an unsavory portion of town. Is this person, because of his looks, less fit, or less of a human being, that he is deprived of the right to defend himself, perhaps especially necesary because of the dangers of where he lives?

I hold these beliefs very firmly, that each person is innocent until proven guilty, equal before the law and deserving of due process, and has the right to own firearms without arbitrary interference by the government or by any governmental official.

What's more, this is what IFG stands for, and it is why I am here. I'm in agreement with the founder of this board, Abhijeet, on this matter, and I'm proud to be here and stand for this right for all citizens.

Having made this observation so that all may know the situation, this thread will now be locked.