Here’s a great article over at Instapundit arguing that strict gun control laws in India emboldened the Mumbai attackers, made it easier for them to achieve their objectives, and made it easier for them to kill larger numbers of people:
this reminds me very much of the situation after the Rodney King verdict. In L.A., where no law-abiding citizen (Korean-Americans excepted) carries (or even owns) a gun, the rioters were able to “use a large number of attackers to overwhelm a target city’s ability to respond.” In Houston, attempts were made to start a similar riot in response to the Rodney King verdict. Would-be rioters shot from the freeway into the neighborhoods. The residents shot back. End result? No riot. Not even one Ranger.
Legalized weakness (i.e., strict policies prohibiting private ownership of guns by law-abiding citizens) does not make anyone safer, except for the terrorists and the psychopaths.
