[12B]

I have been discussing this with my French colleagues and I kept asking them why they just don't shoot about twenty of those bastards. Their answer is enough to give you gray hair.

They said,

"If we start shooting them, outside groups will start smuggling them weapons and then we're all screwed."

Makes total sense if you think about it.

[NickatNite2003]

If they're *dead*..there's no one to
smuggle arms *to*...or to have jail
space for, or lawyers, or trials, or
worry about after letting them out
of jail...

[Truth29]

The French can't use just a little force, that just encourages the terrorists. They need to shoot a 1000 of them, but I suspect that Chirac will fire Sarkozy to appease the Muslims and declare victory. The real winners will be project thugs who will have partitioned France and prepared the ground for the future takeover of the national government.

[FreedomPoster]

In case you haven't seen it already, check out the replied-to post.

Very interesting.

[George W. Bush]

"If we start shooting them, outside groups will start smuggling them weapons and then we're all screwed." Makes total sense if you think about it.

Not really. There have been reports that their Bosnian brethren are already smuggling contraband, including weapons to them. And they are, just like the Bosnians and Taliban, financing themselves from the Afghan heroin trade.

Failing to take action now simply allows the enemy to stockpile weapons unmolested until they are ready.

[SauronOfMordor]

"If we start shooting them, outside groups will start smuggling them weapons and then we're all screwed."

What your French collegues are essentially saying is that there are only two choices for France: submission or extermination

[prairiebreeze]

"If we start shooting them, outside groups will start smuggling them weapons and then we're all screwed." Makes total sense if you think about it.

Not unless you are OK with bowing toward Mecca 5 times per day.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"Makes total sense if you think about it." [Not to shoot.]

It's like some spoiled brat you never disciplined when he was young. He gets more brazen and dangerous every year. At some point, you've GOT to bite the bullet and crack down. Make'em or Break'em. I'd tell the French, IT'S YOUR COUNTRY, DAMMIT!

[Maceman]

"If we start shooting them, outside groups will start smuggling them weapons and then we're all screwed."

Like that won't happen anyway, as the riots are allowed go on night after night.

[brushcop]

No, it doesn't make sense, appeasement will only exacerbate the situation. It takes strong, aggressive, forceful action, a quick response (TOO LATE!), hit them hard, take out rioter's ring leaders. Since when does doing nothing solve such a problem? I guess it's like any fire, once it runs out of fuel and oxygen, it dies--wow, what a concept.

[RockinRight]

SO KEEP SHOOTING THEM UNTIL THEY'RE ALL DEAD!!!!

The French STILL don't get it, do they?

[alisasny]

It makes no sense. Someone smuggled the weapons to the Muslim fanatics anyways and the 2 dead electrocuted kids was but the excuse they were waiting for to start the riots.

[sarasota]

Might be a long shot, but my guess is that terror funding has already begun, guns included. Can't you hear the cries: Let's go to France and keep things stirred up...then Germany and so on!

[SlayerOfBunnies]

"If we start shooting them, outside groups will start smuggling them weapons and then we're all screwed."

Point of order. If there is anyone left to whom weapons can be smuggled, they you aren't shooting them properly or sufficiently.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

If we start shooting them, outside groups will start smuggling them weapons and then we're all screwed."

Makes total sense if you think about it.

Does not....looks like they better get this thing over with now & have a small controlled fire, then wait severeal years where it turns into the Yellowstone fire of the late 80s.

Smuggled weapons are going to get to France now or later.

[Redleg Duke]

And to think that my Grandfather was wounded in the Trenches in 1918, defending these cheese-eating surrender monkeys! And my Dad had two Destroyers torpedoed out from under him by U-Boats in the Med, trying to liberate these cheese-eating surrender monkeys!

Why should we defend someone who isn't willing to defend themselves?

Now those "sophisticated Euroweenies" can understand why anyone with self-respect emmigrated to the New World years ago.

[The Red Zone]

outside groups will start smuggling them weapons

As if it wasn't already going on?

[pgkdan]

"If we start shooting them, outside groups will start smuggling them weapons and then we're all screwed." Makes total sense if you think about it.

I don't think it makes sense at all. The islamomob has declared war on France. I'll bet you anything that weapons are being smuggled in as we type and it won't be long before these guys are going after the gendarmes with AK47's. France is at war. Right now. It's a shame they don't know it.

[Xenophon450]

Of course, outside groups may still smuggle them weapons...

[porkchops 4 mahound]

True, appeasement is an established French specialty.

They wouldn't want to make the islamist scum mad at them, because then there might be violence and trouble.

"Merde!"

[appleton14]

As I understand it, the rioters already have weapons.