Posted on 07/16/2016 6:39:04 AM PDT by rktman
Appearing on MSNBC in the 11 a.m. ET hour on Friday, Daily Beast editor and NBC News contributor Christopher Dickey was confounded by the idea that the terrorist who launched Thursday’s attack on France was heavily armed: “...where the hell did he get those arms? I mean, this is not Alabama or South Carolina or Texas. You just can't go buy automatic pistols in any old store in town by showing your driver's license.”
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As for France, no, terrorists can't get guns in any old store store. They have to get them like anyone else in France who wants a gun - from some Corsican guy.
Mr. Dickey you are well named. Oh and BTW. Stay out of the South. You’re not welcome here.
Quest Ionian?
Auto-correct giving you a little trouble there, pal?
CC
It was a "large capacity" truck.
Waaaaay back in the 1970s when I was an exchange student for a year in France, the first family I lived with had a gun cabinet in the vestibule of their house. It was not locked. Grandpère would grab a rifle whenever he would leave the house. Often, he would return with the rifle and a hare.
I just saw a map of worldwide gun ownership in another thread. There are about 30-40 guns per 100 people in France. That is lower than the US and Switzerland (#1 and #2 for gun ownership), but it is far higher than in sub-Saharan Africa. Which includes some very violent places, I might add.
1. Terrorists don’t generally get their guns from a “store”.
2. The French people can’t legally get guns in “any old store”, or pretty much any store for that matter. This is why they keep getting slaughtered by their muslim “guests”.
Additionally, these trucks are equipped with an automatic transmission.
The press immediately seized upon this and proclaimed that this was a "semi automatic truck" and they then began attempting to determine whether or not "high capacity fuel tanks" were involved.
Hmmm, Alabama or Londonistan.
Which is safer, which is safer?
Hmmm....
“Christopher Dickey” and “Gersh Kuntzmann” (he of the “PTSD from firing an AR15” fame) need to meet up. There’s a marriage made in heav.. err, somewhere...
The surnames just....FIT... so nicely...
Just sayin’...
Is he the dicker or the dickey?
I guess this moron thinks all the criminals here get their guns at the gun store.
Sounds like somebody playing a lot of bad notes, searching for the proper scale.
Did he mention our automatic grenade launchers and roadside bombs? You gotta stock up on your way to Disney World. And don’t forget the peaches.
In Mr Dickey’s defense...he is a moron.
It is amazing how out-of-touch some of these people are. Do they seriously think a terrorist with underground connections is going to have a hard time getting guns and explosives??? It’s about as hard as buying a gram of pot in Boulder.
That was what I thought when I read this article: that if u want a gun, u can get a gun - whether u r in a “no guns allowed” country or not.
I also heard that the truck had an extended capacity multi-gallon fuel tank. Who needs that much fuel?
Close the "truck show" loophole!
“Those reports were false.
The guy had one handgun.
And the truck did the killing.”
So there were no high powered rifles and grenades?
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