How is the Gun Culture in India different than the US?
2024 • 2min • National
Informative
On July 13, Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president, dodged a bullet meant to shatter his skull. The attacker was shot dead by the Secret Service. On October 2, 1986, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had an equally providential escape when a 24-year-old Sikh youth fired three shots from a country-made weapon. All three shots missed. Trump’s escape was providential. There was no way he could have survived headshots from an assault rifle. Rajiv Gandhi survived for different reasons. His attacker was armed with a crudely-made gun, popularly known as a “katta”. News9 Plus decodes how the gun culture is different in both the countries.