I don't understand why Muslims obviously offended by their cartoons keep buying or seeking out their cartoons.
au contraire... its not as likely to happen in america. unlike France, the US has 300million+ citizens and 300million+ guns. With all the incidents these past couple of years, concealed carry %s have skyrocketed. Odds are quickly becoming that somewhere around you, someone is carrying if its legal in your state/city. A hostage situation in the middle of a store etc etc is not as likely to be as effective here because the criminals have to hope nobody else has a gun.
But....it's true.
And I'm not arguing for/against gun control---just stating a truth.
More weapons in circulation = more of a chance to secure them legally or illegally. Something like Paris will eventually happen here--it's just a matter of time, unfortunately.
Catch up and see below.au contraire... its not as likely to happen in america. unlike France, the US has 300million+ citizens and 300million+ guns. With all the incidents these past couple of years, concealed carry %s have skyrocketed. Odds are quickly becoming that somewhere around you, someone is carrying if its legal in your state/city. A hostage situation in the middle of a store etc etc is not as likely to be as effective here because the criminals have to hope nobody else has a gun.
But....it's true.
And I'm not arguing for/against gun control---just stating a truth.
More weapons in circulation = more of a chance to secure them legally or illegally. Something like Paris will eventually happen here--it's just a matter of time, unfortunately.
Ironically, thats why they target gun-free zones and businesses etc etc. but we wont get into that whole gun-control only helping criminals thing.
All very true.But....it's true.
And I'm not arguing for/against gun control---just stating a truth.
More weapons in circulation = more of a chance to secure them legally or illegally. Something like Paris will eventually happen here--it's just a matter of time, unfortunately.
Meanwhile mass killings like this dont happen nearly as much as the media says they do, and even if you have laws to control (as in this case), you still will have situations like this unfortunately. You cant legislate motivation and intent.
That still doesn't negate the truth about the number of weapons in circulation in our country, IMO. And again, I'm not saying the number of weapons in the U.S. is a good or bad thing--at this point, it is what it is.
But more weapons + more ways to access them = a higher potential for something like Paris to happen. On the flipside, it also means more citizens carrying. But like you said, you can't really stop motivation and intent.
Even though not many ppl are arguing in favor of the terrorists actions in this thread earlier I read some posts I didn't all the way feel okay with given it was kind of a disclaimer to talk about what they do at the Charlie Hebdo mag. I know not many here know about it but I felt this wsj article was a bit informative about their motives and what they do since I have come across their work in the past and was somewhat aware of what they do.
The way I've always seen it is it's a ******* cartoon. A CARTOON. Words and pictures. I don't care how offensive it is or if it's sole intent is to offend, it's a cartoon.
So I guess at the least you'd want to say some French are just a-holes that'll mock your religionbut I see the value in it.
So yeah like I'm saying, there has been some purpose to why Charlie Hebdo do what they do and some justification for why what they do is satire but lets say there wasn't and all they were doing was just offending ppl. So what?! It's a ******* cartoon. Now I know it's obvious but it should just be restated that no matter how offensive something is it should never warrant mass murder. Charlie Hebdo simply has that right. I mean it's a no brainer but I'd much rather be offended by something I choose to watch/read everyday than this senseless murder. Even if you agree the pen is mightier than the sword I can't agree with any reasoning that "you're poking an angry bear" or w/e. **** those murderers.
what it seems like is you dont stand on either side of the fence. bottom line, this isnt as likely to happen in america because of the amount of gun owners. whoever tries to take hostages in all these places would be knowingly rolling the dice. take a group of hostages, and one of em pulls out and starts shooting type ish
Okay? And the problem with that is what???
