Trump tells NRA a civilian gunman could have stopped Paris attack

[ucrdem]

Source: France24

Latest update : 2018-05-05

In a speech before cheering members of the National Rifle Association on Friday, President Donald Trump blamed the scale of the 2015 Paris terror attacks on France’s strict gun control laws and called again for the arming of school teachers.

Trump called France’s gun laws “the toughest gun laws in the world,” and said that they prevented victims of the deadly 2015 attacks from fighting the terrorists.

“They took their time and gunned them down one by one,” Trump said of the terrorists, using his hand to pantomime the shooting: "Boom. Come over here. Boom. Come over here. Boom."

130 people were killed in the series of coordinated bombings and shootings that took place on the night of November 13, 2015. Gunmen held hundreds hostage in the Bataclan theater. 89 were killed.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20180505-trump-nra-gun-control-paris-attacks

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This isn't going over well in France . ..

[truthisfreedom]

1. Nit twit

[denvine]

2. I really do hate him!

[TranssexualKaren]

3. Here's a thought...

Next time there’s mass shooting let’s have Twitler be out there being the “good guy with a gun”.

[Jedi Guy]

13. Wouldn't work.

His bone spurs would flare up. He'd wet himself. All those BigMacs and KFC dinners would come home to roost and he'd vapor-lock.

Plus he's not a good guy.

[John Fante]

4. Those wannabe Audie Murphys would cheer that stupidity.

Meanwhile, Dickhead wouldn't dream of allowing armed citizens at his Klan rallies. But he expects a concert hall to be full of them.

[uppityperson]

5. He is absolutely vile. WTF is he going on about? Video game imaginary shootings?

[ucrdem]

8. Profile in pandering.

Is there anything he WOULDN'T say to wring a few bucks out of his dumb-ass base?

[ucrdem]

6. Victims of Paris attacks, Hollande condemn Trump's statements at the NRA

Former French president François Hollande joined survivors of the 2015 extremist attacks in Paris in rejecting remarks by US President Donald Trump, who said the tragedy would have ended differently if people had been carrying firearms.

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“We are outraged by this level of indecency,” said Philippe Duperron, president of the survivors association 13onze15. “Alas, no weapon would have changed the outcome because there were suicide bombers wearing explosive belts who were going to blow themselves in the places they were attacking.” He also accused Trump of shamelessly using victims.

Former French President Hollande also condemned Trump’s remarks. "The shameful comments and obscene antics of Donald Trump say a lot about what he thinks about France and her values," said Hollande in a statement in French. "The friendship between our peoples will not be stained by this disrespect and outrageousness. All my thoughts are for the victims of the November 13 attacks.”

"Indecent and incompetent. What more is there to say?” tweeted former Prime Minister Manuel Valls along with an article on Trump’s statements at the NRA.

http://www.france24.com/en/20180505-victims-paris-attacks-hollande-condemn-trump-statements-nra

[Cha]

16. "Indecency" and STUPIDITY.

[ucrdem]

22. And that. And pandering. And just being a nasty prick

I think he's still mad about the handshake heard round the world LOL. Incidentally Macron hasn't done himself any favors by palling around with Cheeto. He's been in the woods politically since he invited his new American bud to Paris. This is from a "fête à Macron" Saturday that was planned as a celebration of his first year in office but turned into a massive protest:

Paris orders 2,000 police on the streets for Macron protests
May 5, 2018
https://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/paris-orders-2-000-police-on-the-streets-for-macron-protests-1.727489

[Cha]

23. Wow.. I need to keep up. the last I heard

trump was mad at Macron because he dissed him to US Congress. And, there was that missing tree incident.

So the French people are protesting because Macron's "policies favor the rich".. sounds like the US rigged in dictator.

Merci Beaucoup, ucr.

[ucrdem]

24. Je vous en prie Cha! And now this thread needs sum mer . . .

chanté par le maître!

. . . cuz it's SUM-MER!

[Cha]

25. lol:))))))

Merci Beaucoup, Again for Charles Trenet's La mer! French ancestry, eh?

Incredibly it's not summer here yet! But, we're waiting with great anticipation! The first time since I've been here it hasn't been hot yet.. and it's May 7th! Really cold and rainy Winter and Spring.. brr lol

[NickB79]

7. A beer-bellied Bubba with a Glock could have stopped 5 guys with AK's?

Sure thing buddy.

https://m.

[NickB79]

9. Or maybe Quick-Draw McGraw would have taken them down

https://m.

[Iggo]

10. Civilian gunmen perpetrated the Paris attack.

Civilian gunmen perpetrated the San Bernardino attack, the Las Vegas attack, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland, etc, etc, etc...

[C Moon]

11. And again, they didn't permit guns into Trump's speech.

But it's perfectly fine everywhere else.

[turbinetree]

12. Hey Dickhead, FUCK YOU......................it's only MAY 5, 2018 ...

and this country has had around 19,600 gun deaths--------------you really are fucking psychopath, and just like hearing yourself talk.........................

http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/


And David Hogg pretty much has you figured out .....................your a LIAR


https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1017490853


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[Oneironaut]

14. Didn't two try, but they both got shot? They were cops, too.

I hate the NRA’s position that CCW carriers are essentially superheroes. The gunmen had AK-47’s. On the off-chance someone did have a gun, they would have been horribly out-gunned and probably would have died.

I would argue that those two cops erred in going in themselves. One never made it out of his car, and the other was executed on the spot. A single CCW holder would have had even worse odds.

[Raine1967]

15. It's the NRA, not the International Rifle Association.

I agree with everyone who has commented in this thread.

That said I find it deeply disturbing that he spoke to a private group of people about other nation's gun laws.

What happened in Paris was a terror attack. It wasn't about 2nd amendments in another country that doesn't have a second amendment.

This is really dangerous rhetoric.

[Achilleaze]

17. Easy for a five-time republican Draft Dodger to claim

...since he knows he will dodge any shit that goes down, and pee his own pants with knocking draft-dodger knees like the republican freak he is.

[keithbvadu2]

18. A civilian with a gun could have stopped the Las Vegas massacre? Why didn't he?

[keithbvadu2]

19. Trump says he would have rushed in

Trump says he would have rushed in


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Trump leading the way Seinfeld fire George Costanza
.

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Trump MOH
.

[krispos42]

20. Trump lies with every breath, as usual

Civilian concealed carry is not about trying to do some "Die Hard" heroics if shit hits the fan.

It's about YOU getting YOUR ass to safely. There's way too much going on and way too little information available to do anything else.

[Mc Mike]

21. I was gonna ask, but

thought I might as well search instead:

Trump fails to praise Waffle House hero — who happens to be ... Trump is the only American not praising Waffle House hero James Shaw Jr. — who just happens to be black

nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-fails-praise-waffle-h...

James Shaw says he hasn't heard from the White House yet President Donald Trump hasn't tweeted one word about James Shaw Jr, who saved lives last month by tackling a shooter, snatching his gun and ending a Waffle House killing spree in suburban Nashville. "My understanding is that there has been an outreach effort to bring him here," Huckabee ...

thegrio.com/2018/05/03/white-house-james-shaw-waffle-...