re: Terrorist attack in Paris; shooting/grenades at bar & soccer stadium

I thought I would chime in since I was at this years French Open in Paris. In lieu of the Charlie incident I thought security would be crazy. It was an absolute joke. The first day I went through a VIP section since I had a package. No real security, no one checked our bags, nothing. Granted we were white so they may have changed if we weren't. The second day we went through the General Admission and while there were people checking bags, there were no metal detectors, no K-9's, just some dudes checking bags in a complete and total disorganized fashion.

Was that person on the ground at the door using their cell phone?

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You do realize that 128+ died yesterday in a gun free zone correct?

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Which, as you said, would have occurred regardless of what the gun policy was. What does that tell you? Think about it.

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there is a minuscule black population, which is all that matters in reference to "White privilege" (b/c those who promote the belief ignore asians as minorities in the US)

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I think we've gone a little far afield from the point of the discussion, don't you? Paris has a lot of minorities and social tensions, obviously.

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Was that person on the ground at the door using their cell phone?



Looked like it. I thought they were dead til the end when they started moving.

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Me too. Was thinking that someone should get that person out of there.

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Was that person on the ground at the door using their cell phone?

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Thats what it looked like to me.

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Yeah, maybe i dont... But Sandy Hook, Aurora, etc victims would tell you that you dont have the answers either.

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To the best of my recall the only shooter to have obtained his firearms legally was Holmes (the Colorado shooting).

And this doesn't begin to even touch the greater issue which is inner-city violence.

The whole firearm argument, especially in this context (where all of the firearms in the France shootings were acquired illegally) is a strawman.

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Paris/France is much smaller and more homogeneous

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Paris is not even a little bit homogenous.

Can't argue with you there.

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I think we've gone a little far afield from the point of the discussion, don't you?

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only if you want to ignore that uncomfortable truth of the progressive meme of celebrating europe because of its "white privilege"

but if you want to go really general and whitewash the issues

the US has a problem with a large lower class of trash culture. this is not primarily composed of black people, but our black population engages in a this trash culture at a higher rate than other racial groups. the results of this culture include our violent culture and skews our stats on violent crime

europe doesn't have this same problem. they are much more culturally homogeneous, removed from the trash culture