Jokes aside...... I would advise all Indians and Indian-origin people to exercise extreme caution.
White supremacists are not a fringe element anymore but the mainstream of the US society and they don't mind resorting to extreme violence. One of my friend's relatives was killed in a mass shooting in a Sikh gurudwara in 2012.
The Hate against Indians is pretty much mainstream now and things will only get bad from here as the population of Indians continues to grow and Indian Americans rise to prominence in the US politics.
First off, this advice relates mostly to USian desis. It doesnt really apply to those amongst us who live in kaneda/Ozzie/You-rope, etc. because in these places, its very very unlikely that u will get ur ass shot - in UK you do have stabbing risks, but stabbing is much easily avoided if you are smart about it, unless u r very unlucky and mass stabber starts with u kinda scenario.
Because in these places, if even one dude of any colour gets shot by some dude, that dude is dead and universal condemnation and if it shows racism pattern, then its game over, cons lose even more gun rights and shit.
As for our USian friends are concerned - yes, they should be careful. Get a gun if they can and learn how to use it at the range.
I am a gun owner and i will say this - first day at the range is the first day of your life as a gun owner because that is the day you realize how wrong hollywood/bollywood is about everything to do with guns.
And it takes a bit of time to get good with handguns, which really are the only ones u r gonna use for self defence, as long rifle is like wat de foc, r u in a treehouse holding out from KKK gang kinda self defence. And pretty much everything about shooting a handgun u see on tv is a lie - its incredibly difficult unless you got naturally stable arms ( which 95% of humans do not) and every single hero doing every single 'cool tricks with handguns like criss-crossing hands, jump-roll shooting etc are all dead' in real life is the conclusion you will come to after just a couple of hours at the range with a handgun.
And ironically, its a lot easier to get better with long rifle than with handgun, because long rifle is much easier to stabilize during trigger pull than handgun.
it doesnt hurt to learn to use a gun and knowing how to use one also gives one a sort of knowhow that gives confidence in situations involving a gun - because you are also aware of what a gun can/cannot do from what range/angle etc. because you used one.
This is also why when you have crowd shooters, the 'heroes' are usually ones with some sort of gun usage background- military or police or even civillian. Not because 'gun = jigraa people' but because gun users in panic mode know whether they can run for it or not depending on where the shooter is/what gun the shooter has, etc.
I would recommend anyone who lives in the US to be at the very minimum, gun literate because its facking stupid to live in a country where minors can buy a gun to kill u but u dont know how to handle one/ever handled one.