Over the weekend, if you follow French news...the interior minister said that he was encouraging all Frenchmen....to join the Police Reserves.
Now, you’d have to stand back and consider what that means. Currently, there are only 12,000 individuals in the Police Reserves, which typically don’t get a uniform or pay...but help out in disaster episodes, search for lost folks, handle traffic for soccer games, and support the regular police.
By being a member of the Police Reserves though...you’d get the right to a pistol license, if accepted and vetted through your local cop reserve. This means you’d apply, go through the investigation, go to training classes, get a gun storage case, and be allowed while ON-DUTY and OFF-DUTY to carry the weapon.
Think about it....with the military and cops on duty now...it’s around 750,000 cops around the whole nation, and 12,000 reserve cops. If you had five million Frenchmen who stood up and got vetted....got their pistol, you’d have a ton more people on the street and prepared to put people six-feet under as quickly as possible if they threatened anyone.
It might take six months, but I think this is the only logical step left that might overcome the problems at hand. Get people signed up....trained-up....armed....and put them on the street. Israel does this and it helps. It does work in the US. Why not France? Now, I do agree....the EU will freak out but they aren’t exactly the solution at this point.
Nice research——thanks.
It's their belated realization of why we have the 2nd Amendment.