The violence in Mumbai last month was terrible, but also illustrated the fact that what captures the attention of Westerners is not people in India being killed by terrorists, which happens frequently, but people in India in expensive hotels being killed by terrorists. Nevertheless, it's a problem and India needs to take security mesaures.
On the other hand, before we hyperventilate over this, let's think about what the Santa Claus killer in Covina did. In one evening, one disgruntled ex-husband killed nine people. Adjusted for population, that's like 36 people in India. Less than Mumbai, but it happens here all the time. We only see it in the news when there's something quirky, like the guy dressed up like Santa or the victims in Jennifer Hudson's family in Chicago. But if you add them up, there's no doubt that the United States has as big a problem with angry ex-husbands with handguns as India does with terrorists.
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