As Paris Attacks Show, Europe In Denial About Gun Rights

Investor's Business Daily ^ | November 19, 2015 | John R Lott Jr and Julie Gavran

[richardb72]

French citizens were sitting ducks last Friday. For at least 10 uninterrupted minutes, terrorists mowed down attendants at Paris' Bataclan Concert Hall. In five other coordinated attacks, terrorists were given far too much time to go about their business.

But European politicians are in denial.

French President Francois Hollande immediately ordered 1,500 additional soldiers to protect the streets of Paris. After January's Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, France placed 10,000 uniformed soldiers in front of Jewish sites across the country. These troops gave only the illusion of protection.

Israel learned this lesson the hard way. In its first decades of existence, the nation responded to attacks by placing more soldiers and armed police on streets.

Unfortunately, a mass killer can target the uniformed officers first or wait for a moment when they are not present. It didn't matter how much money Israel spent. With a little patience, terrorists would find their moments to strike. . . .

[Steely Tom]

Islamos don’t seem to be too worried about them.

[ronnie raygun]

The gestures of the french gov is a feel good attempt that will be short lived. They need to address the muslim enclaves within thier country that are deliberate breeding grounds for thier enemy, the gov unresponsiveness to these communities that will not assimilate, will not respond to french laws and are drain on the economy, open borders, illegal immigration masked as a humanitarian event, civilians with no means to protect themselves. Mosques that are vued by the gov as religious houses of worship and not Muslim command centers. We will not see the end of this until the gov is replaced and plans are put in place and exicuted

[wtd]

Europe, and Parisians in particular appear to be in deep denial....watch this disturbing description of observed behavior/response to the Paris terror attacks over the last few days (from a Canadian journalists pov):

• Gavin McInnes: French treat Paris terror 'like train crash'

  From the country which gifted us "Lady Liberty" and whose flag shares our colors, blue/white/red....

• StuckMojo: Open Season, w/french subtitles: La chasse est ouverte! Rock "anti islamistes anti Daesh" FR sous titrés francais

  There should have been much more of StuckMojo type patriotism than the sappy enthusiastic renditions of ..."Oh Happy Day" we beheld online. WTH???!!!

  Though appropriate for church services or campfires..."Oh Happy Day" is not appropriate during a memorial for slaughtered innocents who were dining, strolling the avenue or attending a heavy metal concert - all normal mundane activities which had nothing to do with expressing their faith in Christ or personal affectations towards Islam.

  There were other similar inappropriate reactions by that clueless mob of kumbaya nincompoops - such as:

• Crowds at Place de la Republique burst into song "give peace a chance"

• Pianist Pays Tribute to Victims of Parisian Attacks Outside Theatre with rendition of "Imagine"

• BBC ~ Free hugs' offered to Parisians as France remembers or...and God please HELP FRANCE...

• father-son talk about 'bad guys':

  5 yr. old Brandon: "But there's bad guys, daddy? Father: Yes, but there are bad guys everywhere. Brandon: They have guns. They can shoot us because they're really, really mean daddy. Father They might have guns, but we have flowers.

  !!!!!

  And if you think for one second that such a ludicrous sense of 'security' is reserved for the wee bairns...think again!

• They have weapons...we've got champagne!"

[JD91]

I just watched the video footage of one of the Café attacks in Paris. The customers and employees hit the deck for cover, several went down stairs behind the bar. After the attack, they reemerged holding only cell phones in an attempt to call in “guys with guns” to save them. I think it would be better if they came up the stairs returning fire - but that’s so “John Wayne” - not what Euro’s and liberals in this country want to emulate.

[donozark]

Good find! Thanks for posting!

[Hugin]

Not only in denial, the French Foreign Minister called Trump a “vulture” for suggesting that armed French citizens might have reduced the carnage.

[AlaskaErik]

I have a very simple rule. If my gun isn’t welcome, I don’t go there.

[Gritty]

The Muslims held the theater for 2 1/2 hours before the police took it. While they were there, they leisurely murdered and brutally tortured everybody they wished.

If some of the patrons had concealed weapons it may have turned out much differently.

[lentulusgracchus]

If my gun isn’t welcome, I don’t go there.

If you only go where your gun is welcome, you'll probably never need to take it -- you'll enjoy collateral protection from all the other CCW's in the place.

[Bon mots]

The only ones with guns are the Muslims.

Verräter = 'Traitor' in German.

[Red in Blue PA]

I follow the same rule.

[Sasparilla]

If you haven’t visited Europe by this point in your life, it is now too late. Europe is lost to islamic savage cockroach swine.

[AlaskaErik]

If you haven’t visited Europe by this point in your life, it is now too late. Europe is lost to islamic savage cockroach swine.

I've been there a number of times and lived there as a kid. My sister lives there, but I have no intention of going back there.

[Savage Beast]

...and everything else.

[adorno]

Heartless, but a fact:

In the game of ISIS terrorists versus French citizens...

ISIS: kills 129 people
ISIS: wounds hundreds
ISIS: wins bragging rights

Defenseless French people: 129 dead, hundreds wounded

Winner: ISIS!

ISIS would never have gotten anywhere close to those numbers, if France allowed its citizens to carry guns. In ‘gun free zones’, it’s usually those with guns that inflict the most damage.