Only In The Movies Does Someone Use A Gun To Defend Himself
BY Herschel Smith
9 years ago
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud defend a tweet he had posted in response to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump immediately following the terror attacks in Paris earlier this month. Araud described Trump as a “vulture” for a tweet Trump had made earlier in the year following the January attack on Charlie Hebdo.
Araud acknowledged he deleted the tweet, explaining it was immediately as his home country was reeling from the attacks, but doubled down on the sentiment he originally conveyed, which was using a gun to defend themselves in such a situation is something “only in the movies.”
“Well, actually I received this message just as the moment we were under the shock of the attack,” Araud said. “So I am a fighter and I am a diplomat, so I decided to respond the way you did, but actually I erased the tweet I think 10 minutes later, saying it’s of no use.”
“But of course, I am supporting of the substance of it,” he continued. “It doesn’t makes sense. It was a theater, a theater hall. Imagine a theater hall and suddenly people enter with machine guns and are really killing people … It is only in the movies someone is using his gun to defend himself.”
Meanwhile, in Aiken County, a gun was used in self defense.
Authorities say a man trying to rob a couple who thought they were going to buy a car off Craigslist has been shot and killed.
Aiken County deputies said in a news release that officers are looking for the second robber after he ran away following the shooting Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators say the would-be robbers pulled out a gun and demanded money when they met the couple at an Aiken gas station where they planned to buy a car listed on the Internet site.
Deputies say while the gun was pointed at the man, his girlfriend pulled her own weapon and shot at the robbers.
Coroner Tim Carlton says 23-year-old Frank Frazier Jr. died at the scene of the shooting.
The couple was not hurt.
It’s always nice to have empirical data to substantiate your assertions when your assertions pertain to empirical data.
On November 30, 2015 at 8:42 am, K R said:
Like new french WWII rifles for sale, NEVER FIRED!!! Only dropped once.
On November 30, 2015 at 12:20 pm, Jack Crabb said:
Well, in his defense Gerard Araud is French afterall. Their martial record hasn’t exactly been stellar in recent centuries…
On November 30, 2015 at 10:32 pm, reltney mcfee said:
If you live your life vicariously, like, through the movies, instead of actually, like, with deeds, you might very well conclude that only in the movies do folks actually defend themselves with guns. Of course, if you have been disarmed, then, of course, if your are otherwise law abiding, you will not use a gun to defend yourself. Not particularly difficult to figure out.