Lets accept it. India is a society of sheep. Nobody carries a weapon among them. You can shoot 10 cops before the an armed officer comes your way.

The biggest concern right now for Indian bloggers all over the blogosphere is:

Why don’t we pay our taxes?

We don’t care to vote; we don’t care to pay tax; we don’t care to know our rights; we don’t care to stand-up for our rights.

It was caused by “too much freedom”

The Indian media has singularly failed in its duty, by unwittingly abetting the agenda of the terrorists. Lest the media forget, there is no “freedom sans responsibility”.

That’s right guys, nobody is really able to understand a simple fact that if terrorists decide to come through sea, or somehow sneak into city, and start shooting in a heavily crowded market, there are very little options left.

Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, New Delhi, Hyderabad etc are very crowded cities, they have millions of people, and they interact at busy market places almost every day. If a terrorist decides to start shooting people on any random day they are bound to get 100 people pretty easily.

Scenario 1

The terrorists can get into local train of Bombay, since Guns don’t require a lot of baggage their AK47 could be in their small suitcase. They take it out and start shooting at passengers, there are at least 40+ people in a small crowded compartment in Mumbai’s local trains during weekday rush hour. Since he is shooting from an assault rifle, nobody dares to tackle him down, people jump from moving train, someone pulls off the chain the terrorists in other compartments get down and start shooting at the running people.
Since the train stopped in the middle of nowhere, there is no police force anywhere near. The terrorists throw grenades on the other bogies.
Terrorists: 4-5
Logistics: Assault Weapons, Hand Grenades
Casualties: 40-80
Injured: 200+

Scenario 2

Terrorists enter Goa through sea during New Year’s eve celebration, Goa is full of European tourists at that time. So many westerners, and that’s an opportunity standing for them. They have assault weapons they are firing at people in a party, throwing grenades and since most of the people are drunk, they are unable to run to safety.
Though Police and NSG might respond early, but how many forces are we going to devote to protect foreign tourists?
Terrorists: 10-12
Logistics: AK-47, M16, Hand Grenades
Casualties: 10-20 European Citizens
Injured: 100+

Scenario 3

Trained terrorists do exactly what they did in Mumbai, in some other city except this time they are heavily trained in urban warfare by special forces to do maximum damage in urban setup.
Basically its 27th Nov attacks on Mumbai all over, except this time they inflict 10 times more casualties.
Terrorists: 30-50
Logistics: AK-27, M-16, Hand Grenades
Casualties: 300-400 people dead
Injured: 1000+

Solution

One possible solution to all the above given scenarios is we train our Police force with special training, make SWAT forces, give more and more authority to police, give them the power to arrest any individual at any point based only on suspicion, force every citizen to carry IDs. Basically turn the whole nation into a Police state.

The other solution is more strong solution, its a more long term solution with a lot of positive side effects. The only problem is that it requires huge balls to dare go in that direction, and that is we start arming our society. We train our mothers and sisters in using weapons. We make it compulsory in high schools and colleges to learn to use weapons.

We make our society so heavily armed that forget terrorists from neighboring nation, the rapists and the burglars get three bullets from three different guns by the time they fall on ground.

Sadly as usual I expect people to “reject” the “gun culture” of America.
Reminds me of the Battle of Plassey when Sir Robert Clive bribed Mir Jafar and defeated Bengal’s Nawab, and Robert Clive wrote this back to England:

“After we captured 20,000 Prisoners of War from Nawab’s army, we took a precession of our victory in the evening. Thousands of Indian peasants came to see the procession, but what really bothered me was that had they started throwing even one stone by a person all 1000 of the British soldiers would have been dead, and the outcome of battle overturned. But nothing happened, nobody did anything.”