{"id":6853,"date":"2015-11-14T05:06:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T05:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/14\/france-needs-stricter-gun-control\/"},"modified":"2015-11-14T05:06:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T05:06:35","slug":"france-needs-stricter-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/14\/france-needs-stricter-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"France Needs Stricter Gun Control . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . so that events like yesterday's massacre in Paris never happen again<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I am being sarcastic, and doubly so.  First, stricter gun laws would have had no effect on yesterday's events.  Second, the silly phrase "so that it never happens again," beloved of politicians, insults our intelligence and erodes their credibility even further.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Am I being 'insensitive'?  Damn straight I am. And you should be too.   'Sensitivity' is for squishy bien-pensant<\/em> liberals whose specialty is gushing and emoting rather than thinking.  It is something for the 'safe space' girly-girls, whether female, male, or neuter, to demand of the sane.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals love laws, but not the enforcement of laws.  Legislating is easy, enforcement is hard. Enforcement leads to incarceration  and then to the 'mass incarceration' of certain populations.  And we can't have 'mass incarceration' can we?  <\/span><\/p>\n

How about a little common sense?  I'd have to check, but I'll guess that France has laws against the smuggling of Kalashnikovs and other 'assault weapons.'  Well, how about enforcing those laws?<\/span><\/p>\n

How about a review of French immigration policy?  Radical Islam is the paramount threat to civilization at the present time.  Of course, not every Muslim is a terrorist.  But the more Muslims you let in, the more terrorists you will have to contend with. And it wouldn't take many to bring a city or a nation to a screeching halt.  (See How to Destroy a City in Five Minutes<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Am I blaming the victims?  Damn straight I'm blaming the victims.  And you should too. While the lion's share  of the responsibility obvious lies with the jihadis, politically correct Frenchmen who refuse to face the reality of the Islamist threat must bear some responsibility.  Blaming the victim is perfectly legitimate <\/span>within certain limits<\/em>.  I have made this case in an earlier post<\/span><\/p>\n

On Blaming the Victim<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

and in the following post I demonstrate legitimate victim-blaming:<\/span><\/p>\n

Why are People so Easily Swindled?<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

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. . . so that events like yesterday's massacre in Paris never happen again. Yes, I am being sarcastic, and doubly so.  First, stricter gun laws would have had no effect on yesterday's events.  Second, the silly phrase "so that it never happens again," beloved of politicians, insults our intelligence and erodes their credibility even further. … Continue reading “France Needs Stricter Gun Control . . .”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,119,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-islamism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}