Posted on 01/07/2015 11:16:31 AM PST by PROCON
I've seen French police carrying sidearms in every trip I've made to Paris and Normandy.
Every train station has armed police -- municipal and the French 'State police' -- and at all the significant tourist landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, The Louvre, and the Arc de Triomph I've even seen French Army 'rangers' on patrol with service rifles. There's a pic above in this thread showing exactly that.
I even was witness to an armed police confrontation with some kids acting wild outside my hotel two trips ago.
... and in London, I saw less of the unarmed bobby policemen but lots more of the London police walking around or standing on post carrying Hk MP5s. Saw a group of three shortly after deplaning at Heathrow and at every train stop. The US Embassy in London is a flippin' fortress of armed police outside the gates and the bobbies in Picadilly Square were even patrolling in groups of eight or more all carrying pistol caliber carbines.
A tour guide on one of the 'Big Red Bus' tours that service the London metro area pointed out that special 'flying squad' police cars painted with an blaze orange stripe denoted the segment of police who are authorized to carry guns. I couldn't help notice that I saw more of these orange-emblazoned police cruisers in London than I saw of the other kind of police cars that presumably aren't the kind that carry gun-toting policemen.
I think I wrote TheScotsman last week that I've seen more guns in the hands of British police in three trips to London than I've ever seen in the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department after living in LA for thirty years.
I found the dude’s e-mail and I’m really trying to convince myself not to e-mail him and ask him if his opinion has changed.
I figure that it’s a waste of time as people like this won’t ever change til they are directly affected.
” Remove the fear of guns from the equation, and it reduces the chance, to zero, of anyone getting shot.:
Well except for criminal terrorist Muzzies with AK’s. LOL!
Whatever he comes up with will sound like demeaning today's body count of 12 in Paris while pointing out that 14 people died Terra Haute Indiana on a tragic bingo bus outing. He'll think he's making perfect sense in talking about what this all has to do with actor David Niven and yesterday's spot price of the Kazakhstani potassium market.
He's entitled to his own comfortable little opinion and nothing you can do will change that or cause him to re-examine it.
After all, what kind of twit is witness to a minor argument in in a French supermarket and becomes inspired to write a self-serving hit piece on firearms when he returns from vacation? THAT'S what was going through his head when Francoise was bring tailed down the rutabaga aisle by the supermarket guard? Puh-leease.
But yes, I would certainly fire off a 'How Now, Brown Cow?' email to him anyway if you're still on the fence about contacting the author.
Tell that to Ms Gilfoyle on Fox.
“Remove the fear of guns from the equation, and it reduces the chance, to zero, of anyone getting shot.”
Oh, yes! How are those “Gun Free Zone” thingies workin’ out for ya?
“I wonder if the French populace will demand the police be armed now?”
I wonder if the French populace will demand to be armed themselves.
Decided not to waste my time. New gardening catalogue showed up and perusing its pages will be more productive and much less pointless :-)
Why do Americans think all outside North America aren’t armed?. 19m French have guns. And as we are discussing, almost all French police are armed.
Idiot.
I wonder if Matt has enough sense to be embarrassed by his simplemindedness?
leftists do not know shame
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