Many in the American gun community were shocked when France, immediately
following the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks, staffed the streets of
Paris with French military “armed” with rifles but no ammunition
or magazines. Equally shameful were seeing French cops in tactical gear "securing the city" with no rifles at all. One wonders if, when French police initially encountered the Islamic gunmen, their service pistols were even loaded.
The fact that many American gun owners are better armed than most French police officers should come as no surprise. Consider the source. France, like much of Europe, is adversarial toward the sight of firearms, and outright aghast at the idea of personal gun ownership.
So how are these anti-gun philosophies working out for segments of the planet forcibly disarmed by government mandate? Not so well. Especially in Paris, for 17 innocent victims, and thousands dead in Borno Nigeria; a massacre Western media intentionally overlooked.
In reality the “gun free” world is a complete humanitarian disaster, especially in Africa where little to no rule of law is combined with generations of Africans being told guns are "bad" and citizens are “safer” not owning them.
Of course America has its share of active shootings and gun murders, but look where those attacks occur: gun free zones or cities, like Chicago, where guns are strictly regulated if not completely “illegal” (yet everywhere).
Perhaps if more in the American press corps embraced their country's gun heritage we wouldn't hear ridiculous statements about how the Paris gunmen were so “well-trained.” Well trained? What, did they participate in one of ISIL's choreographed “dance” videos before returning to France?
No, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS...... MessNBC, the Charlie Hebdo attackers were not well-trained. They were sloppy and tactically clumsy. One could not even clear a malfunction with his own rifle. What they were was completely unopposed!
The truth is the Kouachi brothers expected to be killed during their initial assault on Charlie Hebdo because they clearly had no idea what to do with the “time” they had afterward.
In short, the police response to the January, 7 terror attacks in multi-cultural, “gun free” Paris was slow, confused, and extremely inadequate. Hey, aren't you glad Diane Feinstein and her band of disenfranchised kooks didn't get that “assault” weapons ban through two years ago? How would you like to be without your AR or AK in Obama's Jihad-friendly world now?
And, yes, France does have an aircraft carrier. To save face Hollande has it is steaming to help NATO operations in Iraq. The unarmed citizens for France, however, are just as vulnerable and defenseless now as they were on January, 7 2015.
