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Copenhagen cafe shooting took the life of 55 year old film director and wounded three police officers
Charlie Hebdo office in Paris on the day of the terror attack
The two recent events of blasphemy-related terror in Europe involved shootings by guns accessed outside their more regulated gun controlled cultures in comparison with a US that has less regulation.
In both cases in France and in Denmark, shooters using guns acquired through illegal networks were rapidly tracked down but died in gun battles with national police during apprehension.
In both cases, the primary terrorist attacks were against facilities and situations with actual police presence and fatalities still occurred. Arguments for greater personal defensive gun use could be argued for in the US but as recent reporting of an experiment by a Texas pro-gun group has shown, it would end tragically.
Texas pro-gun group re-enacts Charlie Hebdo attack, finds outcome would be the same with 'armed civilian'
The group — called The Truth About Guns — wanted to test what would happen if one of the victims was armed during the attacks. The results were the same, with no 'armed civilian' able to take out both of the gunmen.
A Texas pro-gun group organized a re-enactment of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in a bizarre bid to test what would have happened if one of the murdered scribes was armed But the experiment set up by the group The Truth About Guns backfired — in no scenario was the “armed civilian” able to take out both “terrorists.” Perhaps even more disappointing for the pro-gun activists, only one of the volunteers playing the role of the armed civilian even managed to survive — by fleeing the scene.
The problems of democratic society should focus on our social contract in a civil society with a robust public sphere of political communication rather than inadequate defenses of permanent vulnerability. Meetings of any size group cannot make concealed or open weapons carrying a viable deterrent to armed attacks especially by determined terrorists whose rationalizations for violence are ignorant at best. Proposals to arm teachers on the model of arming airline pilots will have negligible benefits and perhaps higher costs.
(2010) Three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville were shot to death by a colleague, and three other people were seriously wounded at a biology faculty meeting on Friday afternoon, university officials said.
4 victims were shot in the initial assault at the supermarket in Paris