Posted on 11/14/2015 11:53:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Late Friday night in Paris, multiple gunmen opened fire on diners and concert-goers as part of what appears to have been a coordinated, city-wide terror attack that also included several apparent bomb blasts -- and which killed at least 129 people.
As bombs exploded and panic spread, one witness described assailants firing Kalashnikov-style assault weapons through the plate-glass windows of the Petit Cambodge restaurant in the north-central part of the city.
France outlaws most gun ownership and it's almost impossible to legally acquire a high-powered rifle such as an AK-47, so where did the weapons in the Nov. 13 terror attack -- not to mention the bloody January assault by Islamic terrorists on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo magazine and the 2012 shootings by a militant in Toulouse -- come from?
The answer: Eastern Europe, most likely, where the trafficking of deadly small arms is big, shady business. And where local authorities find it difficult to intervene.
The French government and the European Union know they have a foreign gun problem. But as the chain of attacks illustrates, efforts to tamp down on the flow of weapons have, so far, failed to disarm terrorists.
French police reportedly seized more than 1,500 illegal weapons in 2009 and no fewer than 2,700 in 2010. The number of illegal guns in France has swollen by double-digit percentages annually for several years, Al Jazeera reported, citing figures from Paris-based National Observatory for Delinquency.
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And there is the Chechin connection for running arms.
Kalishnikov’s Fault. Idiot.
Please. Marseilles is majority Muslim now, and they run the docks.
Entire ships full of Chinese made Kalashnikov knockoffs can be unloaded by Algerian dockworkers and no one will know or care.
So France banned guns and criminals are still getting them anyway?
We know what we need: to import more Muslims to teach the radical extremists that Islam is against terror.
That’s the only thing that will fix gun violence in France.
/sarc(????)
When socialists take over countries, arms need to be air dropped to the civilians who have a natural right to have guns.
They didn’t read the law.
The mayor is of TROP, although she claims to be anti jihadist..
I thought they would blame gun shops in Indiana they they do in Chiraq or states “down south” like they do in NYC.
Not to mention every fishing boat from North Africa to Amsterdam and wide open Schengen borders up until now.
You mean they didn’t come from U.S gunshows? You know, through that loophole they’re always talking about.
I’m sure they just buy them off the internet like those crazy Americans./s
I don’t blame the guns, I blame the terrorists and the politicians which allowed them to enter their country.
This time gun control will work!
Isn’t France a “gun safe” zone. I’m confused.
The kind those poor victims could've used to protect themselves.
Funny how the socialist progressives as##es have disarmed thier country men while allowing thier murderers to murder. Not to long ago british civilians were on line looking to purchase baseball bats to protect themselevs from muzzy uprising. We see a glimse into the future
The AK-47’s got into strict gun control France the same way AK-47’s get into Obama’s gun controlled Chicago.
Namely, the bad guys will always find a way to bring guns to a fight. The bad guys do not follow rules. That is why they are called bad guys.
The only good news out of the Paris killings is that we did not have to listen to Obama telling the world that more gun control is needed.
They don’t speak French.
They bring in weapons and steal cars, bicycles and whatnot to take back. Whatever sells.
France - here is a hint. If you got rid of your mooselimbs, there would not be the high risk of terrorism. It’s not guns from Eastern Europe or from north Africa or anywhere else. It is the mooselimbs that have invaded France and all the other Western countries that are the root of this problem.
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