Gun violence and gun rights have been passionate debates in American society. People have made documentaries, drafted bills, made it their election agenda and learnt to live with both. President Trump sees guns as a means to stop violence read more Political wisdom of history would tell that the intersection of personal experience and political ideology often shapes public policy stances. In India and the entire Buddhist world, the story goes that Ashoka, The Great, the Maurya emperor ruling from southern Bihar over an empire spread up to Afghanistan, was so overwhelmed with the killings in the Kaligna war that...