| Nathuram Godse's Pistol | |
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Origin |
Nathuram Godse |
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Type |
Pistol |
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Effects |
Blasts a paralytic trigger that makes nearby people freeze in place out of shock |
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Downsides |
Hates compatriots that act amenable to dissimilar groups |
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Activation |
Ownership and extant dissatisfaction |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
August 3, 1974 |
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Origin[]
Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a Hindu nationalist who shot Gandhi in the chest three times at point blank range at a multi-faith prayer meeting in Birla House in New Delhi on 30 January 1948. Godse was a member of the political party, the Hindu Mahasabha; and a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu paramilitary volunteer organization.
Godse had two unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi in 1944 before he succeeded the third time. Both times he was releasing owing to Gandhi's policy of not pressing criminal charges. After the 1948 assassination, Godse claimed Gandhi favored the political demands of British India's Muslims during the partition of India of 1947. Soon after Mahatma Gandhi had fallen from the fatal shots at the prayer meeting, and while the attendant crowd was in shock, Godse was grasped and restrained by Herbert Reiner Jr., a vice-consul at the new American embassy in Delhi who was also attending; eventually, Godse was taken away by the police. Reiner reported later that in the moments before he apprehended him, Godse looked a little stunned at how easily he had carried out his plan.
After a trial that lasted over a year, Godse was sentenced to death on 8 November 1949. Although pleas for clemency were made by Gandhi's two sons, Manilal Gandhi and Ramdas Gandhi, they were turned down by India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, deputy prime minister Vallabhbhai Patel, and Governor-General Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, and Godse was executed at the Ambala Central Jail on 15 November 1949.
Effects[]
Affects those that find themselves unhappy with societal conditions or a particular figurehead, pushing them to take actions. Converts any ammunition into a blast wave that instead causes those nearby to tense up in alarm, unable to move for several minutes. They can only fidget in terror while the user retains movement; afterwards, the effect reverses and they become frozen.
Causes one to violently hate those of their creed that seek cordial relations with other groups, seeing the act as betrayal. Will continue even after they succeed, instead seeking to repeat more attacks.