{"id":20462,"date":"2014-06-08T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=20462"},"modified":"2014-06-08T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T21:24:12","slug":"what-india-needs-is-stricter-sword-control-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=20462","title":{"rendered":"What India Needs Is Stricter Sword Control Laws&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this earlier, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-27727812\">violent swordfights broke out<\/a> at the Sikh Golden Temple in Punjab, India: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ebd8EKG8_3w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fights were evidently between rival Sikh factions on who would speak first at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/india.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/06\/remembering-operation-bluestar-on-its-30th-anniversary\/\">Operation Blue Star<\/a>, when the Indian government stormed the temple and killed Sikh separatist followers of Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale.<\/p>\n<p>If the video is any indication, either the combatants weren&#8217;t <i>really<\/i> trying to hurt anyone, or most Sikhs today treat their kirpan as a purely ornamental weapon, as that is some seriously incompetent and ineffective swordplay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed this earlier, but violent swordfights broke out at the Sikh Golden Temple in Punjab, India: The fights were evidently between rival Sikh factions on who would speak first at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of Operation Blue Star, when the Indian government stormed the temple and killed Sikh separatist followers of Jarnail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,411],"tags":[2352,2868,780,2353,904,907,2351,2878],"class_list":["post-20462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-video","tag-golden-temple","tag-guns","tag-india","tag-jarnail-singh-bhinderanwale","tag-punjab","tag-sikh","tag-swords","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20475,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20462\/revisions\/20475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}