RRR is a Telagu-language Indian movie that was released on March 25th, 2022. There is also a Hindi version of the film. The movie features two real-life Indian revolutionaries, Allurami Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, during the 1920s, when India was still under British colonial rule. The general plot of the story is that Bheem, the guardian of the Gondi tribe, embarks on a mission to rescue Malli, who was illegally and forcibly bought and abducted by Scott Buxton, the tyrannical administrator of the British Raj ruling India at the time. Malli was held captive in Delhi, where Buxton was residing and governing at the time. Buxton’s wife Catherine, portrayed as a sadistic woman in the film, enlists the help of Raju to thwart Bheem. Without giving too many spoilers for the readers, in a nutshell, the story revolves around not only Bheem’s attempt to rescue Malli, but the back-and-forth of betrayals and alliances that Bheem and Raju go through in the process of rescuing Malli from the British. While Bheem and Raju never truly met in real life, RRR does have an essential moral to the story; the right to own and bear firearms is both indispensable and sacrosanct, and therefore must be protected at all costs. Furthermore, the patriotism of the Indians displayed in the movie in their struggle for independence from the British is the example and history that the current generation has the obligation to remember and honor to fight for independence and promote liberty today, the way their forefathers did, especially considering that at the time of this writing, nearly all prevailing governments today are trying to completely suppress all fundamental individual rights.
At that time that RRR takes place, just like today, India had no 2nd Amendment or any written law that protects the natural right to own and bear arms. Even if no law, like the 2nd Amendment, was ever written, every single human being has the right to own and bear arms regardless; this right, like all other fundamental individual rights, comes from our creator, not from the opinions or dictates of any government, or any other human being. If India had 2nd Amendment laws protecting the right to bear arms, and had Bheem’s tribe had arms, Buxton would’ve had a much tougher time buying and enslaving Malli; had the tribe been armed, that may have deterred Buxton from even attempting to kidnap Malli. Similar to how areas where people tend to be armed, like shooting ranges, tend to almost never suffer gun homicides, an armed tribe is a much stronger deterrent to kidnapping, invasions, or even just unwelcome trespassers, like Buxton. It is important to note that even if the tribe was armed, there’s no guarantee that Buxton and his soldiers wouldn’t have still tried to capture Malli; he would’ve needed to use more soldiers and heavier weapons, perhaps machine guns, to overcome the resistance. The Vietnam War is quite analogous, whereby armed Vietnamese tribes, despite suffering heavy losses, were able to eventually repel the invading armed forces of the United States of America from fully occupying. In fact, RRR shows the scenes of Raju’s backstory where he, even as a pre-pubescant child, along with his father and other villagers, fought against British invaders. Although the British soldiers eventually defeated the resistance put up by Raju’s side, it was much harder than if Raju’s family and neighbors had been unarmed, unlike in the case of Bheem, where his tribe could hardly put up any resistance against Buxton.
RRR emphasizes why the 2nd Amendment and firearm ownership rights are truly needed and essential: to deter, resist, and repel criminal invaders. Contrary to what most corporate, sometimes called mainstream, media outlets want the public to believe, the 2nd Amendment was not put into the U.S. Constitution to primarily serve people’s needs and interests in hunting; hunting was only relevant and critical because in the time that the Constitution was written, grocery stores didn’t exist, and people often times had to hunt in order to eat and feed their families, especially with meat. Rather, the primary purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to legalize the greatest means that the people have to prevent their government from becoming tyrannical and violating their rights, and in the God-forbid very worst case, use those means to put the government, even any foreign ones like the British during their rule in India, in its place if it becomes tyrannical and abuses its power, as in the case of the foreign British government in Raju’s and Bheem’s time.
To this day, India does not have any coded laws like the 2nd Amendment that protect the sacrosanct natural right of individuals to own and bear arms. In India, only the rich and powerful, including of course police and military, can legally own firearms; this is also the case in the vast majority of countries across the world today. It is truly a shame that India hasn’t learned the indispensability of the 2nd amendment, despite undergoing occupation and rule by the British, who themselves possessed and used firearms to fortify their rule at the time. This gets into the forecast of this post, which answers this question; will India learn to respect firearm ownership rights, and thereby honor the efforts and tribulations of its forefathers, like Bheem and Raju? The forecast is no; like most people across the world, the majority of Indians lack either the conscience or wisdom to either recognize or actively advocate for a 2nd amendment, or equivalent, to become the law of the land in India. In addition to the people not having anywhere nearly enough concern or active desire to bring the 2nd amendment to the nation, the ruling politicians and political parties are also void of either the conscience or the passion to protect the fundamental individual rights of Indians. Therefore, the double hurricane of power-hungry politicians and uncaring citizens, both of whom fail to adhere to conscience on the issue of firearm ownership rights, makes it highly unlikely, and almost impossible, that India will ever have 2nd Amendment rights enshrined in the supreme law of the nation. Other than the United States of America(USA), hardly any other country has a 2nd Amendment, or anything equivalent; despite that, the prevailing regime in the USA, the illegitimate Joe Biden administration at the time of this writing, is trying very hard to destroy the 2nd Amendment and completely disarm the citizens. It is as much imperative for the Indians to recognize the tribulations of their forefathers, in addition to the value of the liberty and independence for which they fought in order for current generations to enjoy, as it is for Americans. Just like the Indians today must fight to bring about the 2nd Amendment for the first time ever in India’s history, Americans today must also appreciate the tribulations of their forefathers, especially George Washington and those leading the revolution against the British empire in the USA at the time, and the very unique foresight that Washington and the rest of the Founding Fathers had to codify firearm ownership rights into law, a la the 2nd Amendment. If the Indians fail to appreciate the value and importance of why their forefathers fought, they will likely never see a 2nd amendment, or equivalent, codified into law; similarly, if Americans today take the 2nd Amendment for granted, they could lose their firearm ownership rights, destroying the wonderful legacy for posterity which was achieved and fought so hard for by Washington, the nearly countless number of soldiers and civilians who died in that massive war, and the other Founding Fathers. This author will pray for more movies like RRR to hit theaters to keep triggering the sense of urgency for humanity to continue fighting to establish and preserve firearms ownership rights, in addition to all other fundamental individual rights. Hopefully the readers of this blog shall pray for the same.