[chajin]

I have a former colleague who is vacationing through the east French countryside; the only city she chose to skip was Strasbourg, otherwise from Montpellier through Lyon and up the Rhone to Dijon has been perfectly peaceful.

It makes me wonder if France isn’t like here, with a distinction between the main cities and what in the US would be known as flyover country. Imagine being in Savigny and all you see of the US on TV or social media is the savagery in Chicago or Baltimore or San Fran or Miami, and concluding that all of the US is a very unsafe place to be.

[Wallace T.]

France is a much smaller country than the United States. At 213,000 square miles, it is smaller than Texas (269,000 square miles), but has more than twice the population of the Lone Star State (63 million vs. 29 million). As in most of Europe, there are not the sprawling low density suburbs that exist from coast to coast in America. France has a unitary government, not a Federal one where much power still resides in the states.

Most importantly, France has strict gun control laws, which are enforced on the native white population and not the Muslim migrants. During the George Floyd riots, Antifa and BLM terrorists ventured into small towns on the fringe of metro areas, such as Weatherford, Texas, 30 miles west of Fort Worth, and were "greeted" by hundreds of well-armed locals and a hostile local police force and sheriff's deputies. The terrorists quickly turned around and returned to Fort Worth and Dallas.

[dforest]

I believe it is that way for now from the video we are seeing. The big cities are where the rioting is.

[SaveFerris]

[Strasbourg]

Ah, home of the European Union’s Tower of Babel!