Mera Nazaria

"So where do all these guns come from?", is a million dollar question. Let us go to the root cause of this arms evil. During the last decade, remember that there were dozens of sting operations been carried out by various TV channels about illegal 'desi arms' factories running in practically every street of Bihar and later in western UP also. That was during the one a half decade of misrule and 'jungle Raj' in Bihar. the cameras showed them care-freely assembling, polishing, shining these 'killing machines' called 'desi katta'. Not only that, there were shops shown selling the obviously 'big factory made and branded ultra-modern machine guns, AK series and even the SLR's 'procured' from God-knows where!

Now the question arises, 'where has all that stuff gone'? They may have sold thousands of pieces before been caught. There may be hundreds more such shops running without getting caught. Many may still be working unhindered. Even if we assume that no such trade is running at present, then also going by the science theory that 'the metter can neither be created nor destroyed', those guns already sold must be lying somewhere in the 'safe custody' of criminal elements 'one each' or 'more than one each'.

Unfortunately, there is no way to flush out these weapons scattered in 'thousands of bedrooms'. These will come out if and only when the possesser decides to use them. Then too, going by the competenece of the authorities have little chance to be caught before or even after they have taken a few precious human lives!