When seconds counted...

[lostinblue 1,989]

When seconds counted.

It was Friday evening, and I was listening to a survivor of the Bataclan Theater terrorist attack in Paris describe how it took place. The attackers wisely seized the high ground, the balconies, where they were able to fire down into the masses of people packed into the overcrowded main floor. According to this witness, the terrorists were able to continually fire their weapons randomly into their helpless victims for ten to fifteen minutes before the police assault finally took them down.

Listening to that, my first thought was this: what if the members of that audience, who were all unarmed by French law, didn't have to simply wait passively to be random victims? What if Paris was a city that permitted concealed carry? In an audience of more than a thousand, perhaps one in twenty might have been packing. That's more than fifty citizens who could have been returning fire on those terrorists. Sure, it would be handgun rounds against automatic rifles and possibly shotguns, but trust me, those three shooters wouldn't have been randomly shooting helpless fish in a barrel had they had incoming rounds from that many firing points – even from half that many. When they were able to raise their heads over the balcony rails, they would have been targeting those citizen shooters instead of killing the helpless...or they might have fled in the face of return fire, as terrorists sometimes do.

The growing body count as of this writing is 120 slaughtered in the Bataclan. We'll never know how much that body count could have been reduced if the foolish French allowed their citizens to go armed. Their imprudent gun control laws contributed to unnecessary carnage.

Once again, when seconds counted, the police were just too many minutes away

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The worst carnage occurred at Bataclan, with at least 112 left dead. A journalist who was at a rock concert there escaped and told CNN: "We lied down on the floor not to get hurt. It was a huge panic. The terrorists shot at us for 10 to 15 minutes. It was a bloodbath." Julien Pearce didn't hear the attackers speak, but he said one friend who escaped heard them talk about Iraq and Syria. Later, he said the men were speaking French. Two men dressed in black started shooting and after wounded people fell to the floor, the gunmen shot them again, execution-style, he said.

http://fox13now.com/2015/11/13/several-killed-in-shooting-outside-paris-restaurant/

As Charles says ... When seconds count the police are minutes or even hours away

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[Jacque67 7,328]

Charles who?

[ILoveMonica1 43]

Charles who?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/user/20970-charles/

[ready4ONE 5,400]

The random carnage generated by the proliferation of guns more than offsets the potential benefits suggested by the OP's speculative 'what if' France allowed guns being brought in to a freaking music concert venue. Honestly a VERY stupid suggestion and a VERY thoughtless idea put forth in the OP.

[Boiler 46,349]

allowed guns being brought in to a freaking music concert venue. Honestly a VERY stupid suggestion and a VERY thoughtless idea put forth in the OP.

Seemed guns were brought in.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Seemed guns were brought in.

Another gun free zone that the left just loves. How many were thinking as they were waiting for the bullet to strike them ....I wish I had a gun instead of this cell phone ? The muslims just walked around executing people. They put in another round some time after to make sure they were dead. .. This place was targeted because it was owned by Jewish people.

[Boiler 46,349]

If it was a gun free zone, how did those people die?

[lostinblue 1,989]

The random carnage generated by the proliferation of guns more than offsets the potential benefits suggested by the OP's speculative 'what if' France allowed guns being brought in to a freaking music concert venue. Honestly a VERY stupid suggestion and a VERY thoughtless idea put forth in the OP.

Someone would have lived if people were armed that night. You seem to think that all people walking into a music concert are stoners .. Very responsible people attend also. . You must not hang out with the correct crowd.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Seemed guns were brought in.

Indeed

Guns were brought in

+10000000000000

Someone would have lived if people were armed that night. You seem to think that all people walking into a music concert are stoners .. Very responsible people attend also. . You must not hang out with the correct crowd.

Just for the record stones are usally a laid back bunch

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Someone would have lived if people were armed that night. You seem to think that all people walking into a music concert are stoners .. Very responsible people attend also. . You must not hang out with the correct crowd.

Missed the point entirely but that's kind of your thing. People were armed indeed that night and people did indeed die.

Arming concert goers, soccer moms and kindergarteners would be a fools paradise.

[Neonred 3,693]

Someone would have lived if people were armed that night. You seem to think that all people walking into a music concert are stoners .. Very responsible people attend also. . You must not hang out with the correct crowd.

Because of where I live, in a smaller well to do community, I have never felt like I needed to carry. Today I saw the list of where Syrian "refugees" are being sent in the US, and we are on the list. It's got me rethinking my reluctance to carry.

My wife on, the other hand, is always ready to carry her weapon. A reminder to never mess with Russians.

[Expat1 971]

Because of where I live, in a smaller well to do community, I have never felt like I needed to carry. Today I saw the list of where Syrian "refugees" are being sent in the US, and we are on the list. It's got me rethinking my reluctance to carry.

My wife on, the other hand, is always ready to carry her weapon. A reminder to never mess with Russians.

A lesson soon to be learned in Syria I am thinking. Seems they stepped up to the plate on that issue.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Missed the point entirely but that's kind of your thing. People were armed indeed that night and people did indeed die.

Arming concert goers, soccer moms and kindergarteners would be a fools paradise.

You made a point all right .

[Boiler 46,349]

Missed the point entirely but that's kind of your thing. People were armed indeed that night and people did indeed die.

Arming concert goers, soccer moms and kindergarteners would be a fools paradise.

Guns should be reserved for Islamic Terrorists use only.

[Expat1 971]

Guns should be reserved for Islamic Terrorists use only.

Islamic what? Islam is the religion of peace.