Guns in France
A reader objected that guns are legal in France in reply to my comment that the French were disarmed.
My question to you, reader, is at what point do ‘reasonable restrictions’ become so restrictive as to be, in effect, a ban? How chilly must the chilling effect become before it is accurate to call it frozen?
Hover your cursor over the numbers to see the cite. This took me precisely one second of Internet research to find.
There was one security guard in the theater. He was unarmed.
From the fact that not one single victim of the shootings this week in Paris was armed, it takes no Olympic longjump of logic to conclude that these laws operated with precisely the predicted effect. No one in the victim crowd had a genuine reason to possess a firearm, hence no one had a license. Who had firearms, however?
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
