Dalai Lama Gun Memes Sweep Internet

By Bob Owens | 7:57 AM | April 29, 2016

In 2001, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, noted that if someone had a gun and was trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

The statement stunned the world, as the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of Tibetan Buddhism, like the 13 Dalai Lama’s before him, is know for his compassion and peacefulness.

The outside world has grown to assume that Tibetan Buddhists are pacifists, but that is a statement without basis in fact.

That said, all of the statements we’ve seen curated (beyond the first one) attributed to Tenzin Gyatso over the past week are… to be taken with a considerable degree of skepticism.

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Thanks to Trevor Fiatal for curating these memes on his Facebook album, Wisdom from Dalai Lama.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.