Mumbai Massacre Proves Gun Control Works--for Terrorists

IsraPundit ^ | 12/01/08 | Bill Levinson

[Winged Hussar]

The recent massacre in Mumbai underscores the effectiveness of gun control laws such as those supported by ...the Brady Campaign, the Violence Policy Center, and others. India's strict gun control laws were quite effective in killing more than a hundred innocent citizens and police officers, per "India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror."

B.S. Sidhu, head of the Railway Protection Force for the Mumbai region, says that while some officers tried to fight back, there was little his force could do. Most police officers at the station -- as they are throughout India -- were unarmed or carried only bamboo sticks known as lathis.

Lesson #1: Don't bring a bamboo stick to a gunfight.

At about 9:45 p.m., two gunmen, slender and in their mid-20s, ran up the circular driveway at the entrance to the Trident. They shot the security guard and two bellhops. The hotel had metal detectors, but none of its security personnel carried weapons because of the difficulties in obtaining gun permits from the Indian government...

Lesson #2: Terrorists and criminals don't obey gun control laws.

The three policemen armed with guns drew them. The nine others waved their bamboo sticks. Revving the engine, the car tried to U-turn but got stuck on the median. The man in the passenger seat rolled out and started shooting, killing one officer and wounding another. The surviving baton-wielding officers jumped on him, knocking him unconscious. Policemen with guns shot the driver dead.

Lesson #1, repeated: Don't bring a bamboo stick to a gunfight.

We have seen just how well gun control laws worked out for the innocent people of Mumbai, and perhaps it is time for the citizens of New York City, Washington DC, and Chicago to learn from the example and demand the repeal of their cities' gun laws.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Getting a gun LEGALLY is so difficult in India that one Indian man bragged that he had actually HELD a real gun once.

[BGHater]

Two police had to share a gun in shootout. Worth a watch.

CCTV from night of Mumbai attacks

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[flowerplough]

Levinson writes that lesson one is “Don’t bring a bamboo stick to a gunfight,” but Lord (Allah? Shiva? Brahma?) bless the brave man who did what he could with what he had and died for his efforts.

[Winged Hussar]

Re: “Levinson writes that lesson one is “Don’t bring a bamboo stick to a gunfight,” but Lord (Allah? Shiva? Brahma?) bless the brave man who did what he could with what he had and died for his efforts.”

No question about this. The fault is not with the police officers who tried to use their bamboo sticks on gunmen, but with the officials and legislators who armed them with sticks instead of guns. Said officials and legislators got their own police officers killed, along with dozens of innocent people who might have been saved had the officers had guns.

[genghis]

libs will learn this lesson after they are killed.
Good try, but trying to educate these morons is futile.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Most police officers at the station -- as they are throughout India -- were unarmed or carried only bamboo sticks known as lathis.

New rule: Never bring a lathi to an AK47 fight.