{"id":38090,"date":"2013-10-22T12:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38090"},"modified":"2013-10-22T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:40:28","slug":"interpol-chief-recomends-armed-citizenry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38090","title":{"rendered":"Interpol chief recommends “armed citizenry”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy sends us a link to ABC News<\/a> in which they report that the Interpol Secretary General, Ronald Noble, an American, said out loud that maybe governments should consider an armed citizenry in response to the shift in terror patterns like at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi last month;<\/p>\n

“Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem,” Noble said. “One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you’re going to have to pass through extraordinary security.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Ask yourself: If that was Denver, Col., if that was Texas, would those guys have been able to spend hours, days, shooting people randomly?” Noble said, referring to states with pro-gun traditions. “What I’m saying is it makes police around the world question their views on gun control. It makes citizens question their views on gun control. You have to ask yourself, ‘Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?’ This is something that has to be discussed.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, there were the attacks in Toulouse, France last year when soldiers and citizens were attacked by a terrorist with a handgun, and that didn’t affect France very much. It will probably take a large-scale attack like Westgate in Europe to force a shift in the way they view legally armed citizens there. Africa still seems a little distant at the moment.<\/p>\n

But it is amazing that an organization like Interpol is talking about the subject, albeit a bit belatedly. Of course, he was doing the interview in Colombia, where they have an equivalent to our Second Amendment – Article 223 of their Constitution – gun ownership is guaranteed by law with certain restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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