“Over the weekend, a Texas gun rights group repeatedly reenacted the Charlie Hebdo massacre in order to determine whether it could have been prevented if one of the editors or cartoonists had been armed, CBS DFW reports.
Members of the group, “The Truth About Guns,” recreated the Hebdo offices, then took turns playing the role of the “armed civilian” in the scenario.
No matter how the situation played out, though, one thing remained consistent — if the “armed civilian” confronted the attackers, he or she died. The only time the “armed civilian” survived was when the volunteer playing him ran away at the first sound of gunfire.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/texas-gun-rights-group-reenacts-paris-massacre-with-armed-civilian-and-everyone-still-dies/
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Doesn’t France already have the highest rate of gun violence in Western Europe?
And if having an armed citizen class is supposed to help deter the body count then why is it that the US, which has more privately owned firearms than any other “advanced” society, has the highest number of gun deaths than any other first world (and many third world) nations?
Epic fail. Again.