{"id":4877,"date":"2008-04-17T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2008-04-17T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T13:26:00","slug":"the-right-to-bear-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-right-to-bear-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Bear Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

HT<\/i> has a report today<\/a> on how there have been a series of robberies in Mumbai recently using “China-made toy guns”—in some cases, “a China-made cigarette lighter impersonating … the United States of America-made .357 Magnum Cobra Colt revolver.” (Nationalists should be outraged at how neither the impersonator nor the impersonated are made in India.) The best line in the story is a quote from “an officer from the LT Marg police station”:<\/p>\n

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This (gun) toy does not invite the provisions of the stringent arms law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s a bit irrelevant, no? Prosecuting robbers for robbery should be enough, I’d imagine, you don’t need to use the arms law here.<\/p>\n

And I know there is nothing amusing about theft and suchlike, but I somehow find the thought of people being held up by cigarette lighters rather amusing. If stretched a bit, it can also act as a metaphor—for what else does Prakash Karat hold to Manmohan Singh’s head?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HT<\/i> has a report today<\/a> on how there have been a series of robberies in Mumbai recently using “China-made toy guns”—in some cases, “a China-made cigarette lighter impersonating … the United States of America-made .357 Magnum Cobra Colt revolver.” (Nationalists should be outraged at how neither the impersonator nor the impersonated are made in India.) The best line in the story is a quote from “an officer from the LT Marg police station”:<\/p>\n

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This (gun) toy does not invite the provisions of the stringent arms law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s a bit irrelevant, no? Prosecuting robbers for robbery should be enough, I’d imagine, you don’t need to use the arms law here.<\/p>\n

And I know there is nothing amusing about theft and suchlike, but I somehow find the thought of people being held up by cigarette lighters rather amusing. If stretched a bit, it can also act as a metaphor—for what else does Prakash Karat hold to Manmohan Singh’s head?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Right to Bear Toys - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-right-to-bear-toys\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Right to Bear Toys - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HT has a report today on how there have been a series of robberies in Mumbai recently using “China-made toy guns”—in some cases, “a China-made cigarette lighter impersonating ... the United States of America-made .357 Magnum Cobra Colt revolver.” (Nationalists should be outraged at how neither the impersonator nor the impersonated are made in India.) 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