Absurd: Disarming Cops Worked Great in France, Didn’t It?
You will remember that we won our freedom because we were armed. We were not a simple peasantry unused to weapons. The men who wrote our Constitution knew our people would be safe as long as they were armed.
You cannot submit to evil without allowing evil to grow. Each time the good are defeated, or each time they yield, they only cause the forces of evil to grow stronger. ~Louis L’Amour
BREAKING NEWS: Hostage incidents in Paris end with terrorists being killed
PARIS (January 9, 2015) – French police stormed a printing plant north of Paris on Friday, freeing a hostage and killing two brothers linked to al-Qaida who were suspected of slaying 12 people at a Paris newspaper two days ago.
Two groups of terrorists had seized hostages at separate locations around the French capital Friday, facing off against thousands of French security forces as the city shut down a famed Jewish neighborhood and scrambled to protect residents and tourists from further attacks.
By Friday afternoon, explosions and gunshots rang out and white smoke rose outside a printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, where brothers Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, had holed up with a hostage.
Security forces had surrounded the building for most of the day. After the explosions, a police SWAT forces could be seen on the roof of the building and one police helicopter landed near it. Audrey Taupenas, spokeswoman for the town near the Charles de Gaulle airport, said the brothers had died in the clash.
Rush Limbaugh
CALLER: Good. I think you’re a little bit confused about gun control. And the reason why I say that, you mentioned before that the police officer that was shot as he was laying on the sidewalk didn’t have a gun. So with gun control that means, you know, the criminal or terrorist shouldn’t have a gun, either. So I’d like you to try to state your point on that.
RUSH: I wasn’t making a point. I was simply reciting a fact. The French cops — and I don’t know if it’s all of France or just Paris, but they’re not armed. They carry billy clubs and that’s it. It was about political correctness. The leftist, the PC belief is that armed anybody threatens people, and if you disarm then you won’t threaten people and they won’t use their guns against you. That’s how it works. That’s why we’re getting rid of our nukes. We’re getting rid of our nuclear weapons to show Putin and everybody else that we’re not gonna nuke ’em. And so the hope is they will get rid of theirs, too. Do you think they will?
CALLER: Yeah, well, I want to make one other point, Rush, if I can. I know you’re pressed for time, but really quick. I mean, I know in Chicago they have some of the strongest gun control laws in the country.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: And we know that there’s not a lot of crime going on there.
RUSH: Yeah. (laughing) Okay. We got a gun control guy here. And look at what happened. How many of you were surprised, by the way, when you heard that the French cops don’t have guns. You were surprised? Literally, you had no idea? Well, Tom didn’t, either. Can’t believe that. But maybe that’s what gun control does, take the cops’ guns away from ’em, and the bad guys won’t shoot anyone. That’s what the left will have you believe.
Why would you take guns out of the hands of cops? Why would you do it? To understand why, you have to understand liberalism. You have to understand political correctness. You have to understand the convoluted thought process that leads you to believe disarming the cops improves security. Only if the cops are the bad guys in your eyes does that makes sense.
RUSH: You know, I’m looking at my e-mail during the break here, and I’m being told by a lot of people they had no idea that French cops were unarmed. Okay. Well, let me add to that… (chuckles) By the way, just to fall deeper into the insanity here, Bloomberg News said that the terror attack in Paris shows the need for even stricter gun-control laws. So the cops on the scene yesterday didn’t have any guns. No weapons. Meanwhile, the terrorists had rocket launchers, grenades, RPGs. They had Kalashnikovs.
They were weaponized.
They were militarized.
This was an attack, obviously the result of serious military training and rehearsal. I’m looking at the e-mail, and it’s stunning how many people are shocked that the Paris police didn’t have any guns. Well, let me add to it, then: The two cops who were shot, do you know how they arrived on the scene? They rode their bicycles. That’s right. They came pedaling up. After hearing about this attack, and the cops are dispatched, the two who were shot showed up on bicycles.
In the midst of all this — I’m not kidding you — Bloomberg News says the terror attacks in Paris shows the need for stricter gun control. Yeah, we got the guns out of the hands of the cops, but somehow the criminals still have them. The left cannot… I mean, how many times have I told you this story? I’m at a fashionable, Fifth Avenue New York dinner party at the home of a moderate Republican. Big name. You’d know it. I apologize for never mentioning these names, but it’s out of respect for these people.
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