Has the gun culture arrived in India? If yes, how to stop it?

Mahesh R

It is indeed a sorry state of devaluation of ethical values,now no longer being taught any where including schools and homes. The parents are themselves captive of materialistic world, devoid of real sense of human values like compassion, love, care of weak, destitute, old and disabled. Everywhere, it is money and status which counts and schools like Euro International Public School are no exception. In such a scenario there is an express need to inculcate ethical values in parents and children as well. For this purpose, in schools, there should be a period when ethical values by way of stories, movies, cartoons and discussions should be taught. There children should be encouraged to express their minds freely and hear others. This should eventually become a platform where once in a month teachers and parents should also participate and attend attentively to their wards views, their worries, concerns, hopes, fears openly being expressed.
Thus a safety valve will evolve to clean minds of our children from the very beginning and help them to develop the fine qualities of heart and mind.

vijay m Indian Lawyer

In this case I give full blame to the parents specially the property dealer father of one of these two boys who took his revolver to school & shoot their class mate. This father was such a sense less man that rather then keeping this fire arm in his save & secure custody had kept in his T.V. trolley for any one to take & use it. This I call too much money inflates the mind. This man was foolish enough to expose such dangerous weapons to his innocent kids, & I'm sure he must be giving them live demonstration how to use it, otherwise how any child of such tender age can pull the trigger if it is locked otherwise, its only when such a child is shown how to unlock the revolver & how to pull the trigger this won't be possible for any such innocent child, just by watching movies or T.V. serials where use of such weapons are shown openly. If the police blames the parent of these accused children for such negligence they are right as they know the technique how to use a revolver & its lock system which any other person who has not ever used such an arm wont know leave aside children of 13 years age group. As far the School authorities are concerned let me bring this fact to knowledge of every one that these new so called public/international/private schools opened through out DelhiNCR & other cities of India are nothing but commercial organizations for making money. I live in Gurgaon & this school is hardly three miles from my house, but there are other schools too which are going the way this school. These are just commercial shops nothing more, the standard of education is absolutely ZERO in all these schools but they try their best to follow the style which other well known Schools in India operate. Those famous schools are very strict regarding discipline amongst the students & teachers both but in such commercial schools its only money which is more important, let the discipline go to hell. Their school charges are much more that one well to do executive gets as monthly pay, but the five star style of functioning of these schools attract even such executives to send their children to such schools. I'm sorry to say our government both National & state are not bothered about such school's functioning & no strict rules & regulations are made for them to follow in order to give a true, disciplined education to our children for their over all development. To stop all this gun culture as we see is to insist & follow our own Indian culture in all our schools rather following western culture, make rules & regulations regarding these to be strictly followed by all schools. The latest in this case is that PARENTS of both accused children have abondoned their children & are absconding from their house, NOW WHAT YOU CALL THESE PARENTS????

funnysam2006

The mafia, and corrupt people have had guns for quite some time in India and have used it very often on innocent people as well as cops and in gang wars.
The parents of these kids were property dealers , one of the categories having strong links with mafia and corrupt babus.
So the culture has been there now it seems these guys have started giving guns to kids. Northern India has more such problems compared to south. People there seem to get the evil of politics much faster.

The Best

We should not make it a big issue. It's the responsibility of each & every parents to take care of these possibilities. We hope this is the first & th last incident of this kind in India.
the more we make an issue on this the more children come to know about this so let not children know these things.

Manish N

I think People who have grown in terms of money and not in terms of brains are responsble.

As one can own a gun but he needs to be responsble enough as well. Not only for his safity but also the safty of others.

Sudden

This not an arrival of "gun culture' in India. This is an isolated incidence wherein the parent of the child who shot the classmate were careless enough to firstly leave a loaded pistol in an open drawer and secondly not to have seen the state of mind of this boy for last three days prior to the incident.

sandeep m

guns are not bad if they are in right hand. the person who knows to control his hand he will not use it wrong. if bad guys r not there who put the gun in children's hand then guns r not bad.

jyoti

No, not exactly the gun culture has arrived in India but we are becoming careless. we are neglecting our responsibilities, care, love and time towards our children just because of our busy schedule. but kids our Innocent they can't understand this. if we are giving a birth to a new life then this becomes our responsibility to give attention, love and care to them. if this situation has come in India when a student of 8Th class shooting his class mate is the result of his frustration, loneliness, ignorance and our careless nature towards them. They don't know what is love, respect and care these words are new for them they may have knowledge about money but what to do? that is useless.so this a lesson for parents and teachers how to behave with kids.

vishwanath m

yes,gun culture has entered India.thanks to the rich parents who connive at the faults of their children,and helping them to escape from the hands of law.For stopping this parents and teachers must join hands in inculcating moral values in children.

rsr

Like the old adage, guns dont kill people but it's people who pull the trigger. From what I read in the papers, the licensed firearm belonged to the father who was a police officer, who has a right to own a gun but highly irresponsible of the Father to allow easy access of a loaded firearm to his Son. Further, the inspiration for this tragedy would have come from the spate of school shootings in the United States. Sad, but true

danradcliffe_fan

Now I see what you mean of gun culture. And to answer your question, no, gun culture has not really arrived in India. Just because there was one incident does not neccessarily mean that gun culture has arrived. In my opinion, there has to be several events like the one you desribed for a gun culture to arrive. Living in the US, I can tell that our country probably already has a "gun culture" due to the continuous events of violence (especially at schools) which involve the use of guns. So should India reach the same level of violent events as the US (which hopefully does not happen), you could then say that India has achieved (in the bad way) a "gun culture."

jainsudhir_31

This is the first of its kind heard in our country,so it will not be right to say that gun culture has arrived in India. But this is not wrong too.
In this case parents are more responsible for this accident.In my opinion here only one boy is not killed,the two boys, who killed the 1st ,are also worst than dead.In fact these are innocent boys who used the gun as a game without understanding the real meaning of gun fire.

Responsiblity lies with the parents who taught the use of pistol loading and firing to their children and also did'nt follow the safety rules of holding a gun which punished their own children making them KILLER CHILD.

Responsibility lies with the video games showing and training violence through games
without actually spelling what killing means.
such videos are very popular amongst children.

To check such accidents here itself this is very important and essential (in my opinion) that schools be asked to have a compulsory subject of CHARACTER BUILDING;CO-EXHISTANCE;TOLERANCE for all levels of schools and college students so that if SOME parents dont impart such education SCHOOLS IMPART by LAW to all.
Last but not least school atmosphere should
be such that they produce HUMANKINDS as their target. These days even sportsman are being taught to win the game at any cost with killer attitude , and this is wild animal stinct and not social animal/human stinct.
we all must think this.

split

As reported in the papers the boys had complained regarding the bully. Since no action was taken against the bully these two boys seem to have been 'pushed' into this action.

The world is getting progressively 'smaller'. You cannot isolate yourself and follow only 'Indian culture' and avoid 'Western Culture'. What needs to be followed is the best of each culture.

In the blame game - the school mainly, for not taking action against the bully and also the parents for making a gun along with the ammunition available to a boy of such tender age.

Mohnan U

I will only blame our Govt.who encourage Rowdies and Goonda,All the Rowdies and Goondas should be hanged or killed by encounter.so that new rowdies and goondas will not be created.

There should be Morals class and subject from kinder garden for the students to learn the Honesty and live a happy life by straight forward with truth.Only Moral from young days will make them a good man/women in future.

mollyvarg

You may please like to know that the Gun Culture in India is not new or a new arrival. It is the culture now existing and specially during the past few years, but in different forms such as by Naxalites, Phoolan Devi & Veerappan type of groups, Land Grabers & the recent real estate/property mafias, smugglers, Religion based terrorists etc.etc. Further development is the money power in alliance with political and other vested interest groups. This development took place due to quick money received by undeserving people which lead to various activities of crime, indiscipline, luxry etc.

The present day situation for children is not the aim to study but enroll to a school/college with star type facility. However, this is not the case with all children but there are serious children wanted to devot their time for study and other type of decent extra curricular activities. Children, they get now a days from their parents whatever facilities they ask for wihtout not even asking for such a requirement or verifying the necessity. In some cases the parents support their undesirable activities, and such actions from parents encourage the children to carry on with their activities as they wish. Therefore, you may please understand that the gun culture is not imported to Indian Schools, but is an extension of the existing activity as I mentioned above.

Let us anticipate that all parents teach their children the role of love, compassion, mutual understanding & respect etc. for all fellow beings, as Home Work, before they are sent to the scholls. Let us also hpe, by this way, a future generation may come up with qualitie of morale and healthy living. Till such time, trying to stop the existing cultures can happen to some extent with our unified action and continued persuation against such activities or as a miracle, as I understood.

chithra i

I worked for 30 yrs. as a school teacher. We always needed the help of the parents , if it is a day school.The parents should check the bag and the books as per the time-table.The parents should not discuss certain topics in their presence and should put them more on their talents, such as music,sports,dramatics etc etc.

HAny

da onli way is to catch hold da roots of da prob. i.e., negligence among da parents n school authorities 2wards der respetive duties.
parents should n must some how manage 2 take out some time 2 luk atfer der child n should always keep an eye on his daili activities, hobbies his behavior etc..,
its rediculars 2 blame a school coz its onli quater a day da child is under da inspection of a school rest is left wid da parents. so da onli way is parents care.

Prahlad Singh Kalsi

Gun culture is already in there in India from a long time since Marxists under communism came into being and they dont allow under priviliged to be participatory in development and they put them on guns illegally produced and smuggled. Thus spread all over India and neighbhering countries thus infiltered in deep rooted our political system and is being protected and abused openly by the same who are to be seen as people's servants [representatives] and saviours of the public. So, the governments & its governing machinery has become impotent. Even leading political parties and politicians use such methods & services fearlessly to stay in power who obstruct the every possible developmental policies in & for the country.

This gun running business has spread so much that gun owners has a very little relevance of safety of the same. Unfortunately, we do see in colleges, universaties but now, it has entered in lower schools. All illegal gun production and smuggling sources must have to be exposed , stopped with full fource throughout the country. Stringent safety factors has to be issued to the licence gun holders. Communism and marxism must be banned to be a true developing India.

sizzler

no, i donot think so. so far some isolated incidents happening does not mean that the gun culture is really set in.one incident like this may be because some crazy, confused parents who do not take care of their children and those parents should be punished severely for this lapse.put them in jail for 10 years and put the boy in remand home and in some correction centre. that is all.

Mynameisaks

Keep our Gun without bullets and bullet kept in locker 4 extra safety. Then we stop or minimise this type of incident.

varun g

I Think its an outcome of great negligence from parents side.
Because parents are very well aware of their ward's nature .
So, keeping all these things in mind they should deal with their child. They shouldn't let them go off the Track!!

pawan chandak

Bringing the rose culture in force i.e if violence is trying to spread its feathers why don't we give love freedom to get spread all over.
the only thing that can defeat violence is love. in any form love would be love either it may be making children learn how to behave by means of discipline or any other strict rule.
Listen with patience to what the child says. We on our part have no patience to hear them then how can we force them to be patience. our impatience lead them to become same as what we are.
Patience should be the first chapter to be taught on the very first day of school of the child because it is the day when child comes out from his house and becomes a social element.

sid_rathod

Yes, it is really a very shocking incident. But it cant termed to be a gun culture. This being the first incident of it's kind. Of course, steps need to be taken so that it does not develop into a 'gun culture'.

According to me, one of the biggest reason behind this incident could be the lack of attention that parents give to their child, which causes the child to create his own world out of his fantasies and live in it.

The reason why such incidents had never yet happened in India is that parents could and did give enough time to their childs. But now-a-days, due to their professional commitments parents are not able to give enough time to the kids. If this problem is understood by everyone, and of course addressed to, such incidents can be curbed in the future.

katkam v

Parents of the accused are responsible for the incident. They are supposed to keep the weapon beyond the reach of their children under the safe custody. They are negligent in keeping their weapon. The school is not at all responsible for the students. The management cannot keep an eye on each and every student.

Devi P

The blame game begins. First of all the this is the clear state of mind where are we heading to? b coz all these are inter related issues. As in today's date neither the parents nor the school is having ideal time to give to the child's feelings and emotion. Every one is running after MONEY. The parents think by admitting the child in international schools and taking care of their needs their responsibility is shouldered in the school. The school in turn does not have highly skilled teachers as the teaching profession is no more a noble profession as it used to be. The schools and teachers don't respect the feeling of the kids they think these kids are acting smart and don't listen to their emotions same at home they don't have time for their children as they are running after their jobs and commitments. And the child's feelings and emotions change down to aggression. This is the right time to stop the blame game and take it as a lesson and the government needs to step in firmly and draw some guidelines to the schools and parents on parenting. Also its not just the infrastructure, syllabus and dress code what we look forward from the schools it should be more of values, ethics and culture with a fair and transparent open system.

krish

We have the Arms Act, which sets out the guidelines and standards for the grant of licence to own and possess a gun, which is not enforced at all. Any self styled VIP using his influence gets a revolver. Contrary to popular belief getting a pistol, revolver or even a modern automatic gun is very easy in the district areas. Now police will act only in metros and cities, ignoring the smaller towns. Unless every purchase of arms is documented and monitored, the use of guns in india will burgeon. Govt. has to be stringent.

gulam m

AMMA DEKH TERA MUNDA BEEGAD GAYA!!!!
Parents should take care thi seriously, Al ways bollywood, Hollywood, Tv chanells are not be blamed for this Bheaviour. You have another way to stop these.
Of -course gun culture arrived in india, Now our govt. not able to fight against the terorist, Our children should train to defuse the bomb, operate advanced gun and responsibilites to their nation, so they will dont misuse these weapons. You know they will feel it some thing important to these items and take care of them.

Shubhashish C

Gun culture is arriving slowly, it's not about mafia or robbers of Chambal hills. It's about guns in civilized crowd, which we are inheriting from west where showing your Driving License is enough to get a Gun. Our 5000 pages constitution already has many laws in comparision to United States constitution of 500 pages, it's we who are saying "Rules for Fools" and "Laws are made to break" as this happened in this case too, Families with kids less than 18 years child should not be permitted to use guns. If is question for self protection, then what kind of risk demand you to get such dangerous weapons should be replied first and where the applicant will keep the gun in house should be checked first. Now in case if the children got the gun somehow, it's time to stop them before they use it, how? Guns should be manufactured eith some IC chips maybe bluetooth or Infra Red whose other end (receiving end) must be gun owners Identity card or something which he/she will keep in pocket or wallet for sure.
If the gun goes away say 5-10 meters both ends should start ringing or the gun end should be disabled (gun stops working in this case). Guns which do not fulfill this benchmark should not be licensed.
Finally there must be some very-very hard punishment for any disobey of these rules.

ghosh.avishek

1.The printing media should be very careful while printing such incidents, They don't have to cover the disaster step by step as the readers get some idea how to execute their personal plans.....
Be brief in representation of news.
2. The parents should be much more careful handling such machines, kids as well.Protect them watching crimes and vulgarity in any media...

danish

Yes, the gun culture has along back arrived in India. It could be stoped only by setting right our leaders who are themselves engaged in such type of culture. We can save our younger generation by engaging them in yoga, meditation and this is the time when we should encourage to start Bal Sanskar camps right from the age of 5years, which has already been started by many organisations. All the parents are responsible for making their children a good citizen of India. We should stop showing voilance in the movies including cartoon movies.

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