To commit mass murder in France, you train abroad, establish complex criminal networks across borders, set up smuggling rings and safe houses and coordinate attacks among multiple individuals.
To commit mass murder in the U.S., you go down to your local gun store and buy an assault rifle.
France’s weakness is geographic. America’s weakness is political. Unlike France, we will never be undone by external forces. We will do it to ourselves, by allowing our country to turn into something we no longer recognize.
Case in point: there was an armed “good guy” at the Orlando nightclub. He could not stop the slaughter. Is the NRA’s solution to match threat for threat, and post military-style guards with assault rifles outside of nightclubs, movie theaters, stores and schools?
As Obama said, we need to decide what kind of America we want. It’s entirely up to us.
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