France: A different school massacre

I won’t go into the details that surrounded the stabbing of four small kids and two adults in Annecy, this past Thursday, that left most of the victims wounded with critical injuries. 

While this clearly was a “copycat crime” inspired by recent student shootings in America. I only want to underscore how such a mindless crime could have been so much more lethal, had it occurred in the United States.

Thanks to reasonable gun laws, the knife-wielding attacker did not have the power at his hands to do more carnage. In France, it’s a lot more difficult to find an AK-49, AR-15 or even a hand gun to conduct a massacre like the one that my countrymen witness. 

It goes a long way in showing that free sale of fire arms, not to mention weapons of war, is what makes the difference between an America out of control and civilized nations like the ones making up the European Community. 

It’s become clear that the freedom to own firearms in the home, in the car glove compartment, the pocket or purse, is far more important than the safety of the American people and their children who increasingly are targeted. 

Our members of Congress should stop and think about their refusal to afford their constituents with the basic safety they need, even if that might take confronting the firearm lobby by instituting effective and comprehensive background check, banning assault weapons, oversize magazines, and even leading to a constitutional review of the second amendment.