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This article details all the stupidity of France's gun control laws and how the three terrorists, one of whom was a convicted criminal on a government, terrorist watch list....
So, try to tell us that gun control works.....
The long list of illegal weapons used by the terrorists in the Paris attack - Crime Prevention Research Center
So, try to tell us that gun control works.....
The long list of illegal weapons used by the terrorists in the Paris attack - Crime Prevention Research Center
The irony here is that the Paris attack occurred in a country with one of the strongest gun control restrictions in the world. You had people just 10 to 12 meters from the terrorists who were able to film them on their cell phones but they were unable to do anything to stop the attack. Yet, at the same time the laws hadn’t stopped the terrorists from being massively armed.
The four terrorists had body armor and radio communications. They were armed with numerous semi-automatic handguns, automatic Kalashnikov rifles, a loaded M42 rocket launcher, 10 Molotov cocktails, 10 smoke grenades, a hand grenade, and 15 sticks of dynamite.
In France, handguns (both pistols and revolvers), fully automatic firearms, and even semi-automatic “assault weapons” are prohibited with only extremely narrow exemptions. Loaded rocket launchers and grenades are also banned. Yet, despite bans and these terrorists having criminals records, these terrorists did possess all these weapons.
It is clear that the funding and weapons for the attack came from abroad.
Unfortunately, the French think that the solution is to station 10,000 troops in front of Jewish sitesacross the country. The problem is that there are so many possible targets, at times when the terrorists pick to attack, that there is no way that the troops can protect all the possible targets, even if they many times more than 10,000 troops. In addition, the terrorists can kill the uniformed troops before they start killing other people. It is an extremely difficult job for troops to be constantly vigilant day after day, week after week, month after month.
Information on French gun laws is available here: