Paris knife attack in police station kills at least 4 officers, injures others, assailant shot dead: officials

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,394]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/paris-knife-attack-police-station

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Hopefully they will ban knives too.

[Dashinka 24,995]

11 minutes ago, spookyturtle said:

Hopefully they will ban knives too.

Only "assault knives".

[laylalex 7,300]

Really? This is a tragedy. It's newsworthy to be sure but it's not about the gun debate in America. Surely these officers deserve our respect. 

[Dashinka 24,995]

6 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Really? This is a tragedy. It's newsworthy to be sure but it's not about the gun debate in America. Surely these officers deserve our respect. 

Certainly these officers and their families deserve our sympathy.  What is interesting is that when something like this happens in the US, many on the Right offer their prayers to the victims, and the Left immediately slams them and brings up the gun control debate. 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,394]

7 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Really? This is a tragedy. It's newsworthy to be sure but it's not about the gun debate in America. Surely these officers deserve our respect. 

But when some lunatic commits a shooting here in the US, it becomes about the guns before they are buried and thats not disrespectful 

[Crazy Cat 42,736]

37 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Really? This is a tragedy. It's newsworthy to be sure but it's not about the gun debate in America. Surely these officers deserve our respect. 

Yes it certainly is............Both guns and knives are only tools for those who have bad intent........banning guns will not stop those who want to kill or harm others.  It will just force them to use other tools.

Edited October 3, 2019 by missileman

[Crazy Cat 42,736]

27 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Only "assault knives".

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/10/fbi-stats-show-5-times-more-murders-by-knives-than-rifles-in-2018/

[Ban Hammer 13,746]

[laylalex 7,300]

37 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

Certainly these officers and their families deserve our sympathy.  What is interesting is that when something like this happens in the US, many on the Right offer their prayers to the victims, and the Left immediately slams them and brings up the gun control debate. 

 

35 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

But when some lunatic commits a shooting here in the US, it becomes about the guns before they are buried and thats not disrespectful 

But... we're talking about France? So why do we need to drag the US into this? 

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

1 minute ago, laylalex said:

 

But... we're talking about France? So why do we need to drag the US into this? 

Because one of the first things "gun control" advocates do when there is a shooting in the US is to point out how great gun control works in places like France or the UK.

[Crazy Cat 42,736]

2 minutes ago, laylalex said:

 

But... we're talking about France? So why do we need to drag the US into this? 

Because this French incident demonstrates that Killers are going to kill......whether they have access to guns or not.

[Crazy Cat 42,736]

No one is as blind as he who refuses to see......

[laylalex 7,300]

4 minutes ago, missileman said:

Because this French incident demonstrates that Killers are going to kill......whether they have access to guns or not.

You get my "like" (should be an upvote) because I think this is the most sensible response to a very genuine question from me. Thank you.

[Boiler 46,411]

It was a ceramic knife to bypass the metal detectors.