As arsonists, rioters and looters swarmed the streets of Paris over the weekend, French police were completely ineffective and a disinterested President Emmanuel Macron and his wife were off attending a concert which featured Céline Dion.
Well-planned rioting and thievery are taking place throughout France and now other European countries. Some say the actions are coordinated by the extreme far left and will continue unabated. France is still six months away from its next presidential election.
Europe is on fire. Its victims are on their own. Extreme anti-gun laws throughout the continent have helped fuel the fires.
France has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the world. For a permit to purchase a “sporting arm”—not a handgun or a semi-automatic rifle—the applicant must be 18 years old and possess a valid hunting license or a shooting club membership. The applicant must also have completed and passed a medical exam, a mental health exam, an extensive criminal background check and government-approved firearm safety training.
Once they’ve completed all of these legal requirements, they are required to submit an application to their local police. This alone can take months or even years. Many applicants have been rejected for no reason.
Even if they manage to pass the requirements and purchase a firearm, concealed carry is outlawed. Gun safes are required. Ammunition must be stored separately, and law enforcement can conduct an in-home inspection whenever they want.
Anyone caught violating these rules can face the loss of the firearm, stiff fines, and years behind bars. France’s anti-gun laws have had a horrific impact on the ongoing crime spree.
One female shop owner in Paris tried to reason with the masked rioters as they calmly walked past her into her shop and stole her merchandise.
A French woman who supported France’s left wing government and the protests asks why left wing protesters are looting her store. It’s a perfect distillation of left wing decisions, this is where it all leads. https://t.co/qSwKyXK7DV
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 18, 2026
“What’s the point of doing this?” she asked the criminals who paid her no mind. If she had a firearm, she might have been able to stop them, right?
This is the point where many will point to our Second Amendment and claim that the riots spreading across Europe could never happen here. Unfortunately, that’s not true.
We have far too many large America cities where the Second Amendment has been bankrupted by local politicians, where the crazy French gun-ownership requirements seem almost par for the course, where only the bad guys have guns.
Try to buy an AR, magazines and ammunition in New York, Boston or Washington, D.C. and you will soon learn this is true.
Millions of Americans are being stripped of their Second Amendment rights by their state and local politicians. Honest, hard-working Americans are serving decades in state prisons for “offenses” that aren’t even considered illegal in free states. Meanwhile, those of us who live in states that recognize the value of the Second Amendment often take for granted the pain and suffering the victims and their families are going through.
“Move!” we tell them. “Get out of New York!”
This, friends, needs to change. And we can help make the change.
When we hear about the decades in prison someone received in a deep blue state for an “offense” that’s not even considered a crime in the rest of the country, we should be spurred into action. After all, we are still one country.
Our Second Amendment rights are simply magnificent. They allow us to defend ourselves. However, we need to ensure that every American has equal access to these rights—as the Founders intended—regardless of where they have chosen to live.
We need to make this a key issue while we have a President and an administration who value both our concerns and the Second Amendment.
We need Second Amendment rights and protections for every American.
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Well.
According to the smartest people in the room. There is nothing you can do to stop rioters from burning down a city. They will have you arrested. If you using a gun in defense of private property.
Even displaying your gun has gotten many arrested just a few years ago during the “summer of Love”.
Only the government is allowed to kill in defense of government property.
Try and steal a police car. Get shot dead. Use deadly force to protect your only source of transportation. You get arrested.
Kentucky and Texas are the only two states that I’m aware of that have laws on the books. For allowing deadly force in defense of private property.
I was saying you should be able to kill rioters. Back in 2020. When the police were ordered to stand down and do nothing.
And I was told I was wrong.
As far as France burning down. That is being done by civilians. So how does the 2A fit that situation???
Unless people are being physically attacked. Which I see very little of on the news.
get the magazines loaded up, guns cleaned and ready to go, supplies stocked up, ’cause…
Left wing violence: Quelle Surprise – France Is Burning and the Radical Network Behind the Violence Says the US Is Next
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Left wing violence: Report – A Network Of Communists And Muslims Is Fueling France’s Riots
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get the magazines loaded up, guns cleaned and ready to go, supplies stocked up, ’cause…
Left wing violence: ‘A COUP’ – DataRepublican Shares DAMNING Internal DSA Transcripts Revealing Plans After 2026 Midterms
“DataRepublican has surfaced a large cache of internal transcripts and recordings that map out an operational strategy among Democratic Socialists of America and allied progressive networks. The materials describe a scenario in which a Democrat sweep in the 2026 midterms would position DSA members as frontline activists tasked with generating repeated clashes with the Trump administration — potentially crossing thresholds that prompt invocation of the Insurrection Act — before shifting legitimacy away from the federal government and toward Democratic governors.
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The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan .
You’ve heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.
What you not have heard is – there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become ‘foot soldiers’ in constant clashes with the administration to cross a ‘red line’ or invoke a ‘doomsday scenario’ – meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.
Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a ‘young and brown’ demographic.
The mysterious group who’s been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called ‘United Democracy Alliance’ and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change.
Patience. I know I’ve hyped this more than anything else. It’s genuinely the biggest discovery I’ve had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
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