…”A gun Rather Than a Camera."

By de Andréa
December 2, 2008

This is the photograph that has dominated the world's front pages, casting an astonishing light on the fresh-faced killers who brought terror to the heart of Mumbai (Bombay), India's most vibrant city.

It can now be known just how the astonishing picture came to be taken by a newspaper photographer who hid inside a train carriage as gunfire erupted all around him.

Reminiscent of some of the School shootings hear in the U.S. Columbine comes to mind. where the police also cowered behind walls while students and teachers were helplessly shot down.

Sebastian D'Souza, a news photographer at the Mumbai Mirror, whose offices are just opposite the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji station, heard the gunfire erupt and ran towards the terminus. "I ran into the first carriage of one of the trains on the platform to try and get a camera shot but couldn't get a good angle, so I moved to the second carriage and waited for the gunmen to walk by," he said. "They were shooting from waist height and fired at anything that moved. I briefly had time to take a couple of frames using a telephoto lens. I think they saw me taking photographs but they didn’t seem to care."

The gunmen were terrifyingly well trained, making sure at least one of them was able to fire their rifle while the other reloaded. By the time he managed to capture the killer on camera, Mr. D'Souza had already seen two gunmen casually stroll across the station concourse, shooting both civilians and policemen, many of whom, he said, were armed but did not return fire. "I first saw the gunmen outside the station," Mr. D'Souza said. "With their rucksacks and Western clothes they looked like backpackers, not terrorists, but they were very heavily armed and clearly knew how to use their rifles.

"Towards the station entrance, there are a number of bookshops and one of the bookstore owners was trying to close his shop," he recalled. "The gunmen opened fire and the shopkeeper fell to the floor."

But what angered Mr. D'Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police hiding in the area who simply refused to shoot back. "There were armed policemen hiding all around the station but none of them did anything," he said. "At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, 'Shoot them, they're sitting ducks!' but they just didn't shoot back."

As the gunmen fired at policemen taking cover across the street, Mr. D'Souza realized a train was pulling into the station unaware of the horror within. "I couldn't believe it. We rushed to the platform and told everyone to head towards the back of the station. Those who were older and couldn't run, we told them to stay put."

The terrorists returned inside the station and headed towards a rear exit towards Chowpatty Beach. Mr. D'Souza added: "I told some policemen the gunmen had moved towards the rear of the station but they refused to follow them. What is the point if having policemen with guns if they refuse to use them? And then, the now famous line, Mr. D’Souza said, “I only wish I had a gun rather than a camera."

THE BOTTOM LINE: Where is a cop when you need one? I guess that is the point of the story, it is that people all over this world ignorantly rely on their governments to protect them. But when push comes to shove it is everyone for themselves. I think the only people in history who really understood this concept were the architects of the American Constitution when they included in the Bill of rights, that the right of the people to keep and bear arms was necessary for the ‘security of a Free State’.

This story my friend, is just an example of what will eventually become commonplace here in America. Just because we in the West are far removed from the East, doesn’t make us immune to these vermin who are infecting our culture as we speak.

If you are one who is complacently buying into these politically correct multicultural lies that Islam is a warm fuzzy peaceful nation, I have a question for you… Are you going to continue to stake your life, and the lives of your family on this idealistic philosophy and this ignorant trust in your government? If you are, do me a favor, and take plenty of pictures because posterity will never believe that you were so brain washed.

Your pictures may survive, but I can guarantee that you and your complacent ignorant ideology will not…

de Andréa