Guns deter terrorist attacks! Except in all the places with lots of guns

Rss@dailykos.com (kos) · Monday, November 16, 2015, 5:32 pm

Among the river of stupid that came out of GOP mouths this weekend was the popular suggestion that an armed Parisian populace would’ve saved lives. For example, there was Donald Trump:

“Had there been some guys with a gun, there would have been a shootout and probably the primary people that would have got whacked would have been the killers," Trump said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "You can’t get any tougher than Paris, and you can’t get any tougher than France” on gun control, he continued. “They just said, come here, boom, come here, boom…shot these people at will."

So just a day before Paris, ISIS-aligned terrorists killed at least 43 people in Beirut, Lebanon, a country that is swimming in weaponry.

“In Lebanon, if you buy 1 million guns, you sell 1 million guns. There is no security, and people want to be able to defend themselves,” he told NOW. “All parties, Christian or Muslim, have weapons now. They are all buying again,” he said.

ISIS has staged major attacks in places like Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Yemen—all countries awash in private gun ownership. How many of those attacks were thwarted by gun carriers? Not a trick question.

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