Another day,another shooting.

It was just another day in Middle America. A man in Wisconsin shot seven people and injured a few others at  Gurudwara. Why am I not enraged by all this?Not because I don't feel any pain or sadness at this stupid act of violence.

I am not surprised at the fact that it does not happen more often.America is a violent country – the homicide rate is four to 12 times higher than that in more civilized parts of the world – and Aurora, Colo. where James Holmes gunned down 12 people , is more violent than the average American town. A down-market suburb of Denver, it sees an average of about 20 of its 325,000 residents murdered each year.

Statistics that would have appeared in the the local daily,but elsewhere would have slipped under the radar.A lot of people – about 15,000 at present – get murdered in the United States every year. Most of these people get killed in places that, roughly speaking, look something like Aurora or the Gurudwara: places where the people are poorer and less white than in America in general, and who are therefore by definition dangerous or not one of us.

Of course these rules don’t hold if some lunatic kills a lot of  people at once, especially in a normally innocuous public space, such as a multi-screen movie theater or a temple,but the fact of the matter is nothing will change,unless the gun laws in the states are amended.

There are no limits on the number of firearms that can be purchased at one time, nor on the possession or transfer of assault weapons, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.


Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker signed a law in July 2011 allowing citizens to carry concealed weapon, making the state the 49th to allow the practice. Only neighboring Illinois does permit this.

The Second Amendment that allows Americans to carry arms was adopted in 1791 at a time of Revolution. It's as if everyone thinks the King of England is going to be knocking on their door any day. I think we are a bit past that, but there's not enough people, with not enough power, to have our voices heard.

There really is no reason for anybody to be walking down the street with an AK 47(that was what was used in Colarado).But then again,the National Rifle Assocaition in the states is a big money spinner,and generates a lot of money for election campaigns.

This year,with the presidential campaign in full swing,Those who want to use the killing spree's to shake some sense into America's gun laws might as well be talking to a wall.