if you have a vasectomy we will give you a gun

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JD02Df03.html

Ex-bandits shoot blanks to avoid baby boom


In an area of India notorious for untamed outlaw activity, an innovative health campaign is using the local citizens' longstanding love affair with guns to battle overpopulation.

In the Chambal region of Madhya Pradesh - the historic stomping grounds of India's legendary "dacoit", or bandit, gangs - male villagers are lining up for nasbandi, or vasectomy, in return for a cherished gun license. Considering the area's penchant for firearms and its history of crime, men seeking gun permits in the past have faced a stiff application process. Now, men who present a sterilization certificate are sent to the front of the line.

Awarding guns to forestall a baby boom is the brain child of Bhind official Manish Shrivastava, a district tax collector. According to Shrivastava, Chambal has the highest rates of malnourished children and anemic women in India. Other family planning campaigns, he told Asia Times Online, have misfired largely due to notions of machismo and taboos against intrusive medical procedures.

"I gathered it had to with their perceived notions of manliness. I then decided to match it with a bigger symbol of manliness, a gun license," Shrivastava told The Telegraph newspaper of Calcutta.

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Women in the area feel the measure is a good way to control the population. Kanta Tomar told Asia Times Online, " I don't see anything wrong in the proposal. After all the collector is the one who issues the gun permits. He wants that maximum number of people should go for sterilization. He is supporting the state in their efforts to control population. "
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good news for women and children

so long as the guns are not used on the women if they don't jump fast enough when fingers snap.

[40ozDonkey]

1. Wow. A two pronged assault on the population boom. n/t

[Hobarticus]

2. Snort---are you in marketing?

That's brilliant!

[TlalocW]

3. After my V

All I was given was a bag of frozen peas to sit on. I WANT MAH GUN!

TlalocW