They are all welcome to America and into
my strong bulky weaponized American arms.
Rodney King/LA riots.
The citizens of America, faced with violence in the streets and an inept response by govenment, would do as we have always done: we'll take up arms and end the insurrection ourselves.
Guaran-dam-tee ya they wouldn't get within 12 gauge range of my house!
Armed response.
Ever hear the term, shoot to kill?
Depends where you are in America. I would not hold out much hope for Boston, SF or Seattle. The rest of the country would stop it in a heartbeat.
An armed people will always stop acts of violence against themselves. When only scum are armed they are always in control.
We've had riots here before and we'll have riots again.
People have defended themselves and their property in those riots.
Police have somtimes taken several days to supress the riots.
For there to have been 8 days of riots with no deaths and only a couple serious injuries of anyone, there must be a very serious state of apathy in France.
I'm sure they would disagree. They likely consider themselves more civilized because neither their rioters, thier police, nor the civilian victims resort to using serious violence in the face of what is mainly attacks on property.
I consider it to show apathy that no one is willing to take a stand against these people. Theirs is a civilization in decline.
The no longer understand that they need to work to make their lives better. Their government cannot continue to provide for them.
Unless they make some serious changes, unemployment will continue to rise. The desperation felt by their unemployed young adults will continue to rise until it expresses itself in ways more serious than property damage.
As you can see, the French simply aren't prepared to deal with such a problem.
Either they fix their serious economic and governmental problems, or they are facing a revolution, and likely not a peaceful one. Maybe not now, but unless they do something to at least slow the decline, I don't think it's decades off anymore.
PS. Sure its fun to make jokes of the French but I wonder how we would deal with a similar situation in America?""
All the more reason why we have to proetect our right to keep and bear ARMS- GUNS, that is.
We are being brainwashed every day that ANY situation can be talked down. It cannot, and this mess in France proves it.
Several reasons why a similar episode will not occur in the United States anytime soon:
a) This is an armed population that would not stand for this kind of behavior, and which would actively patrol and defend their homes and neighborhoods.
b) The US Muslim population is quite small and densely concentrated in several urban areas, that are easily identified and surrounded.
c) We encourage people (although they very often don't take us up on it) to assimilate and join the "American Dream", France has merely imported minimum-wage tax payers to suppport free maid service for ethnic French upon retirement at 50.
d) Our Muslims have learned a few lessons in the last couple of years, like, mess with the United States and you get a JDAM delivered for breakfast. Mess with the NYPD, LAPD, etc, and SWAT teams start showing up locked and loaded.
e) We're actually watching (a fair number) of our radicals these days, and letting them know it.
f) Most muslims in this country have no need or inclination to bite the hand that feeds them. They actually LIKE it here.
Um.... Massive and substained high power gunfire?
Shoot to kill!
In Texas, "1 riot, 1 Ranger."