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发帖数: 29846 | 1 WashPost Asks, With Straight Face: Why Didn't Strict Gun Laws Stop Charlie
Hebdo Massacre?
By Tim Graham | January 9, 2015 | 8:09 AM EST
The next time newspaper reporters start making fun of how stupid some
politicians are, they could always discuss Adam Taylor. The Washington Post
foreign affairs writer was dim enough to ask “France has strict gun laws.
Why didn’t that save Charlie Hebdo victims?”
It never sinks in, that trusty old maxim about if you outlaw guns, only the
outlaws will have guns. Taylor not only asked a dim-witted question, he
mocked Donald Trump for asking it, and then he asked it in all sincerity:
"Isn't it interesting that the tragedy in Paris took place in one of the
toughest gun control countries in the world?" American reality television
star Donald Trump wrote on Twitter shortly after the news broke. The tweet
prompted both praise (over a thousand retweets) and scorn (Trump was
labelled a "moron" and an "idiot" by other tweeters).
Trump, a perennial attention seeker, was likely attempting to score
political points and insult liberals with his tweet. But behind the
disingenuity, there is is a genuinely troubling question: Why didn't France'
s gun laws save the Charlie Hebdo victims?
In other words, “liberals are being mocked as morons, but seriously, why is
it?” Conservative readers can keep laughing as Taylor tries to puzzle this
out:
How did the attackers get the guns?
Almost certainly illegally. Bloomberg reports that weapons designed for
military use, such as the Kalashnikov AK series, have been illegally
flooding France over the past few years, with state bodies recording double
digit increases....
Could more relaxed gun laws have changed the situation?
...Some, such as the National Review's Jim Geraghty, have pondered how
the event would go down in the United States, where more gun ownership could
have prompted an "armed response from ordinary citizens." Such an
alternative reality scenario is hard to guess at, though it's worth noting
that the evidence from the United States is far from clear, especially in
shootings involving automatic weapons.
It’s always “far from clear” that conservatives are right after a deadly
shooting like this. That’s exactly why liberals are willing to sound really
clueless. They don’t want to admit anything. As in:
Did France's gun laws fail?
French gun laws are a response to a variety of factors. For example,
statistics from Gun Policy show that the number of deaths from firearms was
about 0.2 per 100,000 people in 2010 and hovered around that for the
previous few years. In America, it was a little over 2.8 per 100,000. Mass
shootings are relatively rare, when compared to the United States: While the
Charlie Hebdo attack was horrific, it was also an anomaly.
It’s not an anomaly to the 12 dead people. It’s a failure of the gun laws.
Or, it’s a failure of gun law backers to see that violent terrorists aren
’t gun-control champions. One can use the overall data on gun violence as
an argument, but the overall data doesn't work if you lost someone in this
specific "anomaly." | d*****s
发帖数: 5610 | 2 有点道理。
同样逻辑，既然美国有警察，为什么还那么多犯罪？
既然美国警察解决不了犯罪，政府可以解散警察了，纳税人还可以省钱。 | a**e
发帖数: 8800 | 3 如果杂志社的人都有枪并且平时有一定训练，无论如何都不可能发生这样三个人把一个
会议室都干掉的事，即使是AK47对左轮都不行。
【在 d*****s 的大作中提到】
: 有点道理。
: 同样逻辑，既然美国有警察，为什么还那么多犯罪？
: 既然美国警察解决不了犯罪，政府可以解散警察了，纳税人还可以省钱。
| C****t
发帖数: 3813 | 4 煞笔。 这个会议室，有当地警察的武装保护。回家看报纸。。。。
【在 a**e 的大作中提到】
: 如果杂志社的人都有枪并且平时有一定训练，无论如何都不可能发生这样三个人把一个
: 会议室都干掉的事，即使是AK47对左轮都不行。
| a**e
发帖数: 8800 | 5 你这个煞笔。。
【在 C****t 的大作中提到】
: 煞笔。 这个会议室，有当地警察的武装保护。回家看报纸。。。。
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