Indian bus rape: Delhi sees rush for guns

[Tuesday Afternoon]

Source: The Guardian

Hundreds of women in Delhi have applied for gun licences following the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman by six men in a bus in the city last month.

The news underlines the widespread sense of insecurity in the city, deep before the incident and deeper now, and the lack of faith in law enforcement agencies.

The ashes of the victim of the attack – who died on Friday after 13 days in hospitals in India and Singapore, and was cremated in Delhi in a secret ceremony under heavy security on Sunday – were scattered on the surface of the Ganges river, sacred to Hindus, in northern India on Tuesday.

The case has provoked an unprecedented debate about endemic sexual harassment and violence in India. Tens of thousands have protested across the country, calling for harsher laws, better policing and a change in culture.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/01/indian-bus-rape-delhi-rush-guns

[seabeyond]

1. dont wear skirts girls. no cell phones girls? what about the fuckin men raping. oh girls, behave now

i liked the thread about chemical castration and life in prison and 3 month rushing to trial, better than this article. if this is what it amounts to, women, get your guns.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. I laugh when the men of DU tell me about banning guns. thank you democratic men. you will

take care of me?

bullfucking shit.

they ain't my Daddy and they don't pay my bills and they are never around when there is work to be done.

[Mojorabbit]

9. +100 nt

[Recursion]

3. I'll be spending the next three years in India

My wife works for the State Department, and women's rights are a large part of her mission there. I wish there were more we could do, but we'll be doing what we can.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. you will keep us posted, right? I wish you both the best. It is a good mission, I hope.

Happy New Year, Recursion

[Recursion]

6. Definitely, as much as possible

Her job is public diplomacy, so as a diplo spouse part of my job is to keep my damn mouth shut, so I can't be as locquacious as I've been of late, but I'll definitely keep some posts coming as possible.

[Warpy]

5. India now has millions of surplus males in a sexist culture

that denigrates and devalues women. Either they're going to need a war to even up those numbers or they're going to have to face repression to curtail violence from men who both are raised to despise women and who are too poor to have the permanent use of one via marriage.

[seabeyond]

7. and then, there is that. i had forgotten that with india. you are right on.

i cannot believe i am in gun group discussing this, but hey.... here we are.

you are right.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. :)

Happy New Year

[seabeyond]

10. absolutely, gotta be

and to you, too.


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[holdencaufield]

11. Indian women packing ...

... with proper training in safety and how to use a defensive weapon is the most effective cure to India's rape epidemic put forward so far

[gejohnston]

12. and put the sex ratio more in balance by

weeding out misogynistic assholes.

[holdencaufield]

13. Win-Win

[Remmah2]

14. misogynistic assholes? aka Darwin award applicants. nt

nt