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French Ambassador Counters Donald Trump: Armed Citizens Defend Themselves ‘Only in the Movies’
breitbart.com ^ | 11/26/2015 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 11/26/2015 7:29:29 AM PST by rktman

During the November 25 airing of Fox News’ Special Report, French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud countered Donald Trump’s emphasis on the importance of an armed citizenry by claiming that armed citizens succeed in defending themselves “only in the movies.”

Araud was specifically reacting to a tweet sent after the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attacks in which Trump wrote, “Isn’t it interesting that the tragedy in Paris took place in one of the toughest gun control countries in the world?” Talking Points Memo reported that Araud responded to the tweet by calling Trump a “vulture,” then deleted the tweet after attacking Trump.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; banglist; elections; france; guncontrol; gunfreezones; killingzones; momunists; softtargets; trump; trumpwasright
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To: rktman

Im sure the esteemed ambassador told his close security to ditch their weapons...because they certainly wouldn’t be useful in fending off an attack. LOL, dont ya just love the way these ‘royals’ talk down to us? Guns for them but no one else. Remember, liberals have no problem with guns. Their problem is that you can have them too.


61 posted on 11/26/2015 8:47:05 AM PST by 556x45
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To: rktman

There are more than 66,000 American soldiers buried in France.


62 posted on 11/26/2015 9:29:21 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: Vinnie

Stay out of gay paris and see the countryside where, in a lot of places, the allies are still honored and not looked down upon. Progressive parisians, not so much.


63 posted on 11/26/2015 9:31:42 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman
Armed Citizens Defend Themselves 'Only in the Movies'

Tell that to Todd Beamer and Tom Burnett.

"Let's roll!"

-PJ

64 posted on 11/26/2015 9:50:53 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: House Atreides

Obviously, he’s not familiar with Northfield, MN, when Jesse tried to rob the bank!


65 posted on 11/26/2015 9:52:28 AM PST by CMSMC
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To: rktman

Les films, c`est moi.

[[ am the movies.]


66 posted on 11/26/2015 9:55:49 AM PST by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firep Myower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: BenLurkin

Give the girl the burp gun.


67 posted on 11/26/2015 10:08:23 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: rktman
Hey Froggie, remember those unarmed Americans who saved hundreds on a French train a couple months ago? That's what Americans do, since we're not French. Americans with or without guns save people every single day.
68 posted on 11/26/2015 10:46:46 AM PST by Defiant (I wouldn't have to mansplain if it weren't for all those wymidiots.)
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To: rktman

Does anyone know where to get the firearm bumper sticker? Is there one?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/119326060/coexist-original-gun-stickerdecal?ref=related-0


69 posted on 11/26/2015 10:55:03 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Syrians escape to live well in US & EU..Our troops go to Syria to die in their place. More Obamacrap)
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To: rktman

Go surrender someplace, you lying Frog bastid.


70 posted on 11/26/2015 11:01:30 AM PST by DMZFrank
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To: BuffaloJack

Many years ago I was living in Washington, D.C. in a little apartment above a dry cleaners. Late one night I prevented a home invasion by answering the door with a cocked Ballester-Molina .45 in my hand. Nobody was hurt and I never called the police, but I moved to a safer neighborhood a few weeks later. I guess there are thousands of similar incidents every year.


71 posted on 11/26/2015 11:57:19 AM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: rktman
Have a great Thanksgiving and don’t forget to talk about guns at the feed trough as requested by the white house.

In a couple of hours we will be having our Thanksgiving meal and will surely talk about guns, as in the ones we want or are soon to buy.

72 posted on 11/26/2015 12:17:55 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: rktman

Stuck on stupid.


73 posted on 11/26/2015 3:07:30 PM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: MeganC

I take your point. As a libtard he would naturally cleve to the Muzzies because they are killing patriots....


74 posted on 11/26/2015 3:11:23 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: rktman

Speaking of gay Paris, Araud is their former main UN stooge and is an open homosexual.


75 posted on 11/26/2015 3:54:13 PM PST by Rockpile
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To: rktman

And I should have added that being openly queer is WHY he got the appoitment as ambassador to our current sultan.


76 posted on 11/26/2015 3:57:14 PM PST by Rockpile
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To: rktman

The people in France are unarmed and so there are never any crimes there. Or mass murders. Or terrorist attacks. Right?


77 posted on 11/26/2015 6:16:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: rktman

This ambassador has a nightmare coming called President Trump!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJ6WYtLgbo


78 posted on 11/26/2015 7:02:02 PM PST by GilGil
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To: AdaGray

Their leaders most certainly are..


79 posted on 11/26/2015 7:59:40 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: AdaGray

France is a product of its history. In WW1 1.4 million military men were killed or 16% of the MEN. Another 4.2 million were wounded. Another 600k just went missing. So almost 75% of that generation, the Warriors, didn’t pass their DNA down. Maybe less assuming the wounded ones recovered enough to raise a family. The weasiles, cowards, unfit had the ability to breed. This caused France to be brutally be occupied in WW2 where again the real MEN fought and died a lost cause. 250K solders and probably 300k civilians that either were resisting or were thought to resist. The 550K-600K fought and died in the resistance, in loosing battles, and the free French army. Again the coward got to pass on their genetics, gain monetary advantage and raised up the French social/political leadership.

The French patriot and warriors are almost extinct. They died. What is our excuse for having the behaviors our country is doing. I’m ashamed because I have no good excuse even though there is no excuse for our behavior over the last 12 years or so.

No offense to anyone but I am a little down on myself for failing my country, my family, my self and my God. It won’t make me feel better to make fun of a country that fought, died but won a war that cost them their future.


80 posted on 11/26/2015 8:31:49 PM PST by wgmalabama
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