There once used to be a time when the aphorism ‘Human lives are priceless.’ used to be meaningful. But, a few years ago, when I read an article on Ismail Gulgee’s murder, I knew that the aphorism could now only be concluded as a myth. Why would a calligrapher get killed?
There saunters about a Jack the Ripper in every street, every night. Each one of us is always surrounded by a cloud of risks we are compelled to take heavy-heartedly when stepping out of our comfort zones. But God forbid we were to take any measures to counter those risks. Getting caught red-handed with a pocket revolver at a security check down the lane at night by those thugs enrobed as officials is another dilemma you are forced to embrace unless you bribe yourself free.
You would probably turn a deaf ear to the message within this curt piece of writing.
The urgency of the message could have only be felt by the 23 year old Chanty Woodman who was raped and stabbed to death by Cesar Barone, Richard Speck’s victims or the 37 innocent lives put down by the all-time famous Zodiac Killer. If these victims would have been given authorization to a pocket revolver, they would have probably seen the best in store for them.
Any citizen, who does not have a criminal record, should be permitted to carry a weapon. But that does not at all imply to going around carrying a grenade or rocket launchers – no one, not even your loved ones would venture your way! A decent pocket revolver, light and easy-to-use, can be a person’s best companion when travelling down Lyari’s streets at night.
Written By:Hafsa Zarnab
All citizens should be allowed to carry weapons, they say. Anyone without a criminal record should possess weapons, they say. Innocent people get killed, they say. Weapons are a means of destruction, thats what they dont say. Weapons are nothing but objects that take lives on the press of a button, that's what they dont say. This world is not such a brutal place, that innocent beings need to carry weapons to defend themselves. We live in a peaceful world. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others happiness and not by each others misery. Dont make the world something it is not. And dont make claims that can have the greatest reverse effect this world will see. Arent I alive? You dont see me carrying a gun. However, one may argue that my life is different from the life off someone who lives in the poor, more prone to violence areas. One may argue that I come from a different background than the poor boy from Lyari. Yet, what is it that we have in common? Innocence. And I will not let someone take away the innocence of a little child by handing a gun in his hand. Go to the streets if you feel your child, you family, ypur own self is not safe. Do what Syrians or Egyptians did. Bring a revolution, change the system. Dont try to use coping mechanisms in system that enslaves us all. Dont be victims of this system if that's how much you hate it.
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