It didn't take long after the gun smoke settled over the "Charley" landscape in Paris for the elbows and camera lenses to fly every which way, did it?
Speculations, hysteria, wild eyed panic seemed everywhere. Even in the States, dire warnings of gunfights in Kindergartens and shoot-outs in Pizza Parlors raised their ugly heads.
Now some four days after the bloody cartoon office showdown, this side of the pond has begun to calculate the forensics of the gunfight:
1. France has tighter gun controls than the city of Chicago.
2. Where did these clowns get their machine guns?
3. CIA advisor Bob Baer comments on Fox News " AK 47's? easy to pick up in France." And that in a country that outlaws just THINKING about getting a machine gun.
4. Nervous babble by some American media that prattle on about worldwide Al Qaeda networks, millions in funds, zillions of terrorists in waiting, and what happens in Paris? Four Parisians citizens and a wife show up with 3 illegal guns and enough ammo they can carry, jump into one car and manage to get 40 miles away before getting killed by half the French Army. Hmmm.
5. I contend two Navy Seals in shorts and clogs could have turned them off by lunch.
What the American media has done is scare the hell out of our citizenry with this overblown hype with the assistance of mister president hanging on for dear life somewhere near the help of our foundering ship.
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