Gun Control Works: 3 Shot in French City of Marseille
It's not gun control that determines crime rates.
October 25, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
Gun control works. Doesn't it? It's smart and common sense and so very European. The Europeans have gun control and the metric system. Why don't we?
But in real life, gangs and drug dealers will still get their hands on guns. As this latest bloody shootout from the most multicultural city in France shows us.
They were 15 to 24 years and were shot with automatic weapons on the night from Saturday to Sunday in the northern districts of Marseille
"Drug trafficking-related murders is the likely hypothesis," said Bernard Cazeneuve.
It was 2:30 on Sunday in the 13th arrondissement of Marseille when the shooting erupted. The three victims were then in the stairwell of the building D. Several individuals aboard two vehicles opened fire with an automatic weapon.
Twenty 9mn cartridges from an automatic weapon, but not a Kalashnikov, were found on site. Shortly after the tragedy, 2 burned vehicles were recovered in Gardanne, about twenty kilometers north of Marseille.
One of the victims, the major of 24 years was known to the police. But the two minors, both aged 15 and a half, were "little known", according to a judicial source. However one of them was prosecuted for armed robbery.
Laurel is in fact known as a hub of drug trafficking in Marseilles.
If this sounds like Chicago, there's good reason for that. Marseilles's young male population is likely to be majority Muslim. And the city is worse than Chicago. It's worse than Detroit.
Hooded gunmen today exchanged automatic rifle fire with police in Marseille as France’s Prime Minister visited the city to discuss crime-fighting.
Kalashnikov shots rang out across La Castellane, the troubled estate plagued by gangs fighting over the city’s drug trade.
They are thought to have been targeting Pierre-Marie Bourniquel, the local police chief who was due to meet Manuel Valls, the Prime Minister, today.
It is thought that those involved in the original gun fight numbered around 15 and had been involved in a turf war for many months.
Gun control doesn't do much good if you have a whole lot of gangs and areas that are controlled by them. Marseille actually comes off more like Afghanistan in some of the Muslim territories. The constant French fight against "arms trafficking" doesn't prevent heavily armed gangs from trying to take out a police chief.
It's not gun control that determines crime rates. It's the population. Detroit with gun control is still going to be a bad place.
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