Posted on 11/26/2015 3:22:47 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,†French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud defend a tweet he had posted in response to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump immediately following the terror attacks in Paris earlier this month. Araud described Trump as a “vulture†for a tweet Trump had made earlier in the year following the January attack on Charlie Hebdo.
Araud acknowledged he deleted the tweet, explaining it was immediately as his home country was reeling from the attacks, but doubled down on the sentiment he originally conveyed, which was using a gun to defend themselves in such a situation is something “only in the movies.â€
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The NRA has a column in its publicatins “The Armed Citizen”, but they are only a small subset of defensive shootings.
I try to track as many as I can easily find at Gun Watch.
The remainder of Europe’s best died in WW1 and WW2.
Yes indeed. Very sad. Europe has gone down a long way since.
Anyway it is a lot more than the zero that the frog king is claiming.
I once used a gun to defend myself from 8 guys. I was in the middle of nowhere, 8 guys drinking whiskey on my car acted unfriendly, and then they became a lot less antagonistic when I pulled out my 22 revolver.
Had they been terrorists, I’d have needed to shoot the closest one in the face, and probably would have died a short time later myself - but I wouldn’t have died alone. As it was, I drove off and the incident was never reported to anyone.
Wrong. He was born with the right. He was just defending it.
That ‘right’ was not recognized as a right at the time - stick to the history - peasant rights of any kind was a novel concept. Looking back you could say what you did, but at the time it did not exist Washington was man of his time.
“Only in the Movies’ Does Someone Use a Gun to Defend Himself”
Yeah, if you’re French.
“Likewise, the folks at the theater didn’t seem to even think about overpowering three gunmen, even though there were hundreds of people there. They waited for the “experts†to show up. I saw the photograph take inside the theater before the show started, and there were a lot if fit young men in that audience. Shows you what operative conditioning will do to a whole nation.”
It took 3 Americans to save all the French on a train last August.
I won’t cheer but I’m done feeling sorry for them after they determined that further restricting the firearm ownership rights of law abiding europeans would somehow make them safer against terrorists. Eff ‘em.
Just to remind folks here that there are 19 million legally owned guns in France, part of the 60 million or so legal European guns.
France and Europe are NOT unarmed. Not by a long shot. Pardon the pun.
1-—Do we know he didn’t?. Perhaps he some basic, even if he didn’t, perhaps its sometimes better to get someone as quickly as possible. Sorry, but I doubt anyone would not try and stem bloodflow and do some basic help.
2—Please don’t turn this into a France vs American thing. You aren’t superior beings, just human like the rest of us.
3—Very easy to say youd be all John Wayne, these were young people faced by three men armed to the teeth.
4—And what about all the spree killers in the US?. Why didn’t anyone rush James Holmes et al and the myriad of US school shooters?. Why didn’t anyone go out and help Kitty Genovese?. Seems you’re just as conditioned as France or anywhere else.
Funny, could have sworn blind one was British.
History being rewritten again.
1-—Do we know he didn’t?. Perhaps he did some basic help, even if he didn’t, perhaps its sometimes better to get someone as quickly as possible to hospital. Sorry, but I doubt anyone would not try and stem bloodflow and do some basic help.
2—Please don’t turn this into a France vs American thing. You aren’t superior beings, just human like the rest of us.
3—Very easy to say youd be all John Wayne, these were young people faced by three men armed to the teeth.
4—And what about all the spree killers in the US?. Why didn’t anyone rush James Holmes et al and the myriad of US school shooters?. Why didn’t anyone go out and help Kitty Genovese?. Seems you’re just as conditioned as France or anywhere else.
Nonsense, they were proud French, driven out by hatred.
‘cept France has 19m guns.
Could say the same for the US.
If World War II didn't change French minds, nothing will.
Yes, that you could. Although technically WW2 was over by some months, the loss of Gen. Patton was the single greatest casualty for America and deprived us of a strong and decisive leader who would not have folded in the face of the international Communist scourge (including deeply infested within the U.S. Government and its institutions).
no need to be snarky.
Unless that’s all you have left to make you feel manly.
I understand you dislike Americans; that does not give you permission to make garbage up. I live in NY - some of the most compassionate people when the chips are down.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.