“Rage and despair after brazen attack kills 26 in Kashmir,” a Wednesday BBC headline reads. “A group of gunmen opened fire on Tuesday on tourists at a resort in Pahalgam, a picturesque town in the Himalayas often described as the ‘Switzerland of India’.”
“[T]here is no official confirmation on the numbers yet from the government,” the report says about “the attack [which] took place on Tuesday afternoon.”
The only thing that can be confirmed is that the murderers ignored India’s draconian citizen disarmament edicts, and their victims were helpless to do anything but “run for cover” or be shot.
“India has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world, making it difficult to obtain a gun license and own a firearm,” CNBC TV 18 reported. “The Arms Act, 1959, bans the sale and possession of firearms without a license, with a few exceptions for high-ranking government officials, defence officers, and professional shooters.”
“According to the Arms Act, carrying weapons is punishable with jail term and a fine,” Deccan Herald explained. “An additional 2019 amendment, further sought to reduce the number of licenced firearms that a person can possess. It also proposed strict punishment for possession of illegal firearms [and] also tendered life imprisonment for making illegal firearms.”
None of that stopped the Resistance Front killers, armed with M4 carbines and AK-47s, though, did it? The only people the laws stopped were the “law-abiding,” that is, the ones being slaughtered.
When is that not the case?
It certainly was that way in 2008 in Mumbai, when 10 armed attackers killed “ at least 174 people, including 20 security force personnel and 26 foreign nationals… More than 300 people were injured.”
An account in the International Tribune detailed some of the terror:
“At the Taj, the gunmen broke in room after room and shot occupants at point-blank range. Some were shot in the back. At the Oberoi Hotel, the second luxury hotel to be attacked, one gunman chased diners up a stairwell and at one point turned around and shot dead an elderly man standing behind him.”
And as we’ve seen in our own domestic mass shootings in supposedly “gun-free zones,” from Columbine, to Parkland, to Uvalde, the police were hesitant to engage. Per the Independent:
But what angered Mr D’Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police hiding in the area who simply refused to shoot back. “There were armed policemen hiding all around the station but none of them did anything,” he said. “At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, ‘Shoot them, they’re sitting ducks!’ but they just didn’t shoot back.”
“The message from Mumbai, the lesson we can salvage, is unmistakably simple and clear: Disarming people renders them defenseless. Predators don’t obey disarmament edicts. Authorities can’t protect you,” I wrote for GUNS Magazine in 2009. “Will we learn it, or will we wait for another ‘gun free zone’ massacre to happen here, with the attendant cries from the ignorant and the ambitious for yet more ‘gun control’?”
The Kashmir massacre answers that question.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
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