guns

guns how good are they?
how much we need them and how much they really help us?

i am from India and i have never seen a gun in my 26years of life there! so do most of the Indians unless they are police, army or the paramilitary forces! very few people posses guns with a license which is rather hard to obtain! India is rather safe , you can walk around in the night though you should be scared for stray dogs! i used to go and hang around beach for a fruit shake or  some coffee at midnight!  of-course the crime is high in mumbai the newyork equivalent of India, but overall the crime resulting in death is very low. look we are 3 times the population of USA squeezed in 1/3rd its size... technically speaking we should be seeing more crime!

  But, change the scene  to newyork ...the busy manhattan streets becomes really dark after 7 and its not really advisable to be around in dark places where there are no people! of-course the crime targets mainly soft targets: women ( especially older women) , older people, and " The drunken people" but, it is the gun that gives big the advantage to the criminal!

   The free availability of guns gives the power to go and bargain with victim
" it is just a ring " 
why you  let your or the loved one's life go for it?
even  a broken man can go and load the gun and kill the entire people dining with her ex-lover and her and can have his evil satisfaction or the disgruntled disoriented student like the Virginia tech shooter  make the people listen to him for a very grievous price...
  whereas in India robbers rarely attack you for say 20 bucks or even say 100 bucks. They do not want to risk it so often. because for them robbing at the point of knife is not really cool , so they do not try for it unless they are very sure that they can overpower the victim. instead they  go for a big robbery over a home where the family is on vacation etc... they plan their robbery and meticulously implement it .... they are rather professional robbers... as a whole the crime is comparatively very low when compared to america for the main reason that civialians do not possess guns just like that!

  now a days we are reading in news about some robberies of the gas stations in highway....with guns...

bottom-line is that guns make the job of criminal easier while it would be a great risk for him to do with a knife!With knife they might not even succeed after all that risk...
 even if the Virginia tech university students possessed guns with them ... does it sound sensible that they would be having their guns loaded with them all the time? while they are listening to a lecture, they would be having guns loaded and on their desk ready to face any possible attack?

If everyone on the earth possess a gun and have it ready with them, we need not go to hell, we will see it right here!

Gun rights;

Gone were the days when the new settlers were in a state of constant fight ...now Americans are not in fight with anybody at-least at home! Compared to the 1700s there is very less necessity for individual to have arms and be ready for a fight!

so, if you still want to claim your right to bear firearms think about it.
because guns are not toys but, a powerful weapons which give us a chance to be god
" where we can write the destiny of our victims with a simple flick  of the trigger "

Bhagavadgita & violence

Does Gita promote violence?

I have a friend who is guyanese american of Indian descent! and he is christian. He used to have many misgivings about Hinduism but, this one really made me laugh!
" look man Krishna asks you to kill everybody....kill uncle teachers ,brothers what God is that God man?"
That was his complaint!
I did not get anger or even feel irritated... i felt it was funny.


let us get into the allegation:
Life is beautiful
yes life is beautiful  but everyone wants their life to be beautiful even at the cost of other people. Especially the bad people ( or the villains) like to have their life beuatiful by going to any extent against the principles of society or the morals! Whereas some people who are on the side of righteousness does not like yielding and they prefer to fight the evil than love it! Though love is very powerful, loving your enemy is divinely romantic  but, in reality not stopping the evil doer is helping the spread of the evil! so even  if we love all the human beings in the world which is what Jesus asked us for it is not wise for us to ignore/accept the ugliness/evil and allow it to spread!

The world has ill people who are bent on making things work their way at the cost of the principles/morals and order of the society while there are people who will fight on the side of righteousness and will not let the evil people take over the society/humanity!
The fight between the good and bad is eternal and it will never end by good people loving the bad people! 
For them(evil people) such thing(love) amounts as submission!
If you still do not agree ask God to love Satan! Does it make any sense?
people influenced by god  (they have no choice)  fight people influenced by Satan!
Love your neighbor but not the evil deeds of your neighbor!
Even Jesus Christ in his second coming is not going to be a friendly, forgiving, and loving God but, a warrior /armed prince and punishing God!


The madness:
Some people who are influenced by love find it disgusting to see that God is asking the warrior prince Arjuna to kill his own uncles, teachers,cousins etc....
As we already discussed the fight between good and bad is eternal! we have to take the sides which is the most critical aspect.  If you are taking the side of good you are on the side of god! If you are taking the side of bad you are on the side of evil! If you are  a warrior ( contemporary soldier/general/marine etc...) it is your duty to fight the war! The only thing you have to worry is if you are on the side of righteousness or not! If you are on the side of righteousness and if your own uncles, teachers,cousins are on  the side of evil you shall not step back from your duty " The war ".
                                       do your duty! Never be a slave to the worldly feelings/ family bonding and do injustice to your responsibility! 
If president of Russia's son does something ugly(imagination)  shall the Russian society forgive him? Righteousness is above everything.
Dushta sikshan sishta rakshana
punishing the evil and protecting the righteousness, that is the theme of God's preaching the warrior prince to fight against his own uncles etc...!
So it is not madness of violence but, the protection of the order and righteousness and above all doing your duty without any bias!
Those who protest this theme of Bhagavadgita should first  protest the  army/navy/air force of their own country and even if imagining(wildly) they are successful they should then  use their all energies to zero down the police force! No police no soldier for their country...then only they can protest that bhagavadgita is something  only wild and violence!

The Karna ex:
Karna is a very righteous and noble warrior! He is the most powerful warrior, even than the Arjuna the hero (warrior ) prince! His charity is second to none! even if he knew that his enemy is asking his armor only to kill him, he will part with it cheerfully and give it to his enemy in disguise! As a matter of principle he will never say no to anyone who comes for his help! He is the most noble but, but, he is killed in the war! Even the God had his role in the death of this shining warrior!
The moral is how good and noble a person you could be, if you are on the side of evil you will not succeed in the end and you are not supposed to succeed how powerful and skillful you might be at the end of the war @ god's will!

So, Bhagavadgita asks you to do your duty ( if you are a soldier - fight) and to make sure that you are on the side of righteousness!
What is righteousness?
let me define other way around : If you violate someone's rights  for your own gains it is bad/evil and if you violate your own rights for the happiness of someone that is love/divine or atleast if you resist evil you are good!