Gandhi and the Dalai Lama on arms

[galileoreloaded]

I think the nation needs to put our rational thinking caps back on and act like the adults those kids needed us to be on Thursday and every day prior. Lets cut out the knee-jerk hyperbole even though it makes us feel less impotent and helpless.

Gandhi:

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest ... if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity."

Dalai Lama said:

"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg."

What is the core of the issue? Hint: its not proliferation of small arms in the US, the metrics do not support that argument. What else?

[MightyMopar]

1. Here we go again!

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. The same Gandhi...

whose reaction to the Holocaust was "The Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs."

That Gandhi? Uh huh.

Also context: "Depriving a whole nation of arms"? Gandhi was referring to British policy of not conscripting Indians into military service during WWI. Not to private ownership of weapons. http://www.potowmack.org/gandhi.html

[galileoreloaded]

3. Yeah, that one.