Guns More Common in America Than in Much of Asia, Africa - LA Times

Guns are the new bling in India, as Mark Magnier reports for The Times. Rising income, rising crime and memories of terrorism have made Indians more eager to pack a pistol: Government worker Deep Sidhu sits in his living room feeling the weight of the family's Luger, a German World War II-era pistol, in his hands. Guns are in the blood, he says beneath a painting of a man toting a shotgun. "This forgiveness-peace idea will only make Pakistanis think we're soft... [Los Angeles Times, via GunPolicy.org]