Musings of a modern guy

The Second Amendment of the US Constitution is probably one of the most contentious issues in the US polity. The Amendment covers the right of American citizens to bear arms, and reads thus, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear […]

Musharraf has always tom-tommed his thinking to be that of a commando, quick and decisive action being his forte. However, the siege of the Lal Masjid must be straining his though process pretty badly. The stand-off between the security forces outside the mosque and the clerics and the students inside the mosque keeps on, with […]

Looks like the policy is to do a siege of the mosque, squeeze the people inside and then do a sudden attack when an opening is seen. This is how a traditional siege operates, and so far the entire operation looks like set to moving along that line. So, there are armoured vehicles surrounding the […]

The US from time to time suffers a deadly carnage due to the usage of guns, and the basic debate is whether the second amendment allows guns to be easily purchased by anybody, and what are the laws governing citizens rights to carry guns. States have different laws regarding the freedom of folks to buy […]

In one of the deadliest scenes of mass murder in the United States, a student of South Korean descent killed 30 people at Virginia Tech university. This is a tragedy that shakes people up all over, essentially because of the randomness of the incident and the fact that this happened in a college campus, not […]