| Excerpted from a longer piece mostly about professional soccer and the current "migrants". |
Why is it that turbans in Europe, from the killers at Charlie Hebdo
...
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe..., the Gay Paree attacks, the Toulouse
...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France...
murders, the French train shooter or the Copenhagen terrorist, all had relatively easy access to guns? Europe prides itself on gun laws, unlike those "gun-loving" Americans.
Yet, "it was unclear how Abdel-Hamed el-Hussein obtained the weapon," wrote USA Today. In fact it was three weapons: An M95 assault rifle, a 9mm pistol and 7.65mm pistol.
The French train shooter had a 9mm Luger and also an AKM rifle. The AK-47s used in the Gay Paree attacks were produced in Serbia, some of them decades ago. The rocket-launcher, rifles and submachine guns used in the Hebdo attacks were purchased in Belgium.
Why is it in Europe, under the "strict" gun laws, that all the criminals and turbans have guns? Not just old handguns, but easy access to automatic rifles and rocket-launchers. Do you ever hear about gun dealers being enjugged
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
often in Europe? No. You hear about laws against guns, but not about enforcement of those laws. Prices for these weapons are not even outrageous. About $770 for an AK-47, more for a rocket launcher. French police estimate that "4,000 war weapons" are circulating in La Belle France. A German guns dealer has been detained following the Gay Paree attacks, and 800 shotguns "moving from
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
" have been seized.
In Maryland you can buy a semi-automatic Yugoslav Zastava AK-47 with a 16-inch wooden side mount with adjustable sights, of the kind used in Gay Paree, for $579. How is it possible that in the US, with an open gun market, that a similar rifle (semi-automatic as opposed to full-automatic) can be bought for almost the same price? One would think that when things are "illegal" they would be more expensive. But not in Europe, where gun laws mean nothing. Google the phrase "gun dealer sentenced" in Europe and you won't find a lot of news stories. The Guardian writes that pistols are "easily and cheaply available on the streets of the UK's big cities."
There are thought to be 150,000 unregistered guns in Ireland.
It seems if you want convictions for illegal sale of guns, you have to go to gun-loving America. In March 2015, for example, a New York court sentenced two men to three years in prison for trying to sell guns illegally to the Philippines.