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India has launched a new handgun for women, named after a student who was gang-raped in Delhi in December 2012 and later died of her injuries.
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The gun's launch has led Indians to debate whether carrying a gun makes a woman safer. Ram Krishna Chaturvedi, the chief of police for Kanpur and several nearby districts, thinks it does.
"It is definitely a good idea. If you have a licensed weapon, it increases your self-confidence and creates fear in the minds of criminals," she says.
I was always under the impression that guns were very strictly controlled in India, only allowed for sporting purposes. According to Gun Policy though, out of the estimated 40 million guns in private Indian hands, only 6.3 million are registered and legally held. With the number of rapes on the rise, women are quickly realising that the police are powerless to protect them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25727080