This piece of news in yesterday's newspaper made me sit up, literally.
Two school students in Delhi, just 13-odd years old, shot to death a classmate over some trivial
issue. One of them pumped 4 bullets from the service revolver of his Dad (who is in the police
force) and then handed the revolver over to his friend, who fired the final bullet.
Kids going on a shooting spree in American schools was shocking when we read it for the first
time. But over the years and many such incidents later, the shock-value just wore off and we
would just attribute it to the easy availability of firearms in the US due to the right enshrined
in the American constitution for every citizen to bear arms to defend himself/herself.
Whether we ever get to American levels of development (in terms of infrastructure and standard of living) could be debatable, but looks like we are pretty quick in taking up traits
that we are better off without.
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