Our policemen have the most archaic guns

While reading this article I was wondering why the policeman mentioned in it didn’t fire at the terrorists who were firing indiscriminately with their modern, automatic weapons. Like the photographer in the article I was really feeling that; only if they had killed those two terrorists on time it would have saved many lives.

Then I saw footage on TV that showed how two policemen tried to fire at the terrorists but the gun got jammed and wouldn’t fire even a single shot. Both the policeman had to take cover and when they couldn’t fire they ran from there. It looked so pathetic with terrorists moving around proudly with their automatic assault rifles and machine guns and our policemen having a single gun that was nothing better than a stick. Most of the guns given to the policemen belong to the World War II era according to an article I read today in The Pioneer. As JB rightly mentioned in one of his comments that we should definitely find out where all the money goes that we pay to the government in the form of taxes.  I wonder if the right to information act can help here. Even the bullet-proof jackets worn by them are of highly poor quality and they cannot withstand the bullet of even the locally made handguns.  Incidentally the commandos who protect our VIPs and other ministers are well-equipped with latest gadgets and weaponry. Democracy in its true, shining colors.