Attn: American Gun Lovers - The Blessings of Civilization Are Required! [View all]

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Your fellow human beings in Egypt and India need your efforts in the pedagogy of the penultimate doctrine of the virtuous nature of supreme firepower! Pack your bags, there is no time to waste, the gifts of guns are needed in these countries to thwart a blossoming criminal element intent on ravaging the decencies of good men! Pack your bags, sport your holsters, obtain your passport from the liberal State Department, and ship out to sunny lands to offer up the knowledge that you hold so close to your heart: more guns are the answer!

Rise in crime intensifies unease in once-safe Egypt
Egyptians say they don't recognize the country now, a place with carjackings, soccer melees and brazen bank robberies.
By Jeffrey Fleishman and Amro Hassan, Los Angeles Times
February 20, 2012, 6:46 p.m.
Reporting from Cairo—

The headlines reflect a previously unknown cruelty: a woman gunned down in a rich Cairo neighborhood, a rash of carjackings, a deadly soccer riot, a stream of smuggled arms that have given muscle to criminal gangs once easily outgunned by police.

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Soldiers guard streets but few people feel safe. Police have largely returned to duty after months of work slowdowns, but their presence is sporadic; they appear and disappear at whim. Many Egyptians wonder whether security forces are complacent about or complicit in the mayhem around them, a sense of unease felt by fruit vendors and bankers alike.

"This is an Egypt I do not know," said Tarek Fouad, a sales manager at an international corporation. He said he saw this bewilderment in the faces at the funeral for a relative, who was shot in a January carjacking on the affluent outskirts of Cairo.

The car he was driving wasn't expensive, "but they murdered him to get it," Fouad said. "We kept hearing about such crimes in the news, but now they are common. We're having bank robberies, which is another thing we only saw in Hollywood movies and never, ever imagined they would happen in Egypt."

More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-unease-20120221,0,4205913.story

Gun culture spreads in India
Indians own about 40 million guns, second only to the U.S. Rising incomes, along with crime and fear of terrorist attacks, have fueled firearms purchases.
By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times
February 20, 2012, 5:46 p.m.
Reporting from Chandigarh, India—

Vikramjit Singh stands in the parking lot of a posh club in Chandigarh discussing one of his favorite subjects: guns. He owns 10 or so; he can't remember exactly. They may come in handy if the old family feud resurfaces.

In a Hatfield-versus-McCoy saga that haunts the 25-year-old student, his grandfather was shot to death here in the western state of Punjab and his father imprisoned for a retaliatory murder. Although the two clans signed a truce a few years back, Singh isn't taking any chances.

"Having a gun 24/7 is a necessity," he says. "You don't know if their relatives will crop up again. And an expensive weapon is a status symbol. You can't flash just any old gun around."

India, the land of Mohandas Gandhi, known for its Hindu belief in the sanctity of life, is anything but gun-shy. Rising incomes have made high-end weapons a new form of bling, and rising crime and memories of Mumbai's 2008 terrorist attack have left Indians eager to be armed and dangerous.

More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-guns-20120221,0,977361.story

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom.

I remember a decade ago at my first annual meeting in St. Louis. After my banquet remarks to a packed house, they presented me with a very special gift. It was a splendid hand-crafted musket. I admit I was overcome by the power of its simple symbolism. I looked at that musket and I thought of all of the lives given for that freedom. I thought of all of the lives saved with that freedom. It dawned on me that the doorway to all freedoms is framed by muskets.

- Charlton Heston

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