This article is from India West, a California Bay area-based newspaper targeting Indian-American readers. Subject of the article, a medical student at the famously anti-gun rights Johns Hopkins University, describes her advocacy for several gun control measures currently before Congress. Living and working in the crime-ridden city of Baltimore, she seems to believe the rest of the country’s gun owners are like the typical inner city criminals she treats.
As educated as she is, this Indian-American medical student must know that Americans, including women, use firearms at least hundreds of thousands of times each year in self defense against violent criminals. And she is surely aware of the much-publicized problem of frequent rapes of women (including this recent ghastly gang rape and murder) in the country of her ancestors. So why does she want to deny women the right to defend themselves against this horrible crime?
—Timothy Wheeler, MD is director of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, a project of the Second Amendment Foundation.