CALL TO BAN DEADLY ASSAULT TRUCKS

It has been very interesting to watch the media's manipulation of 'truth' in the aftermath of the latest French massacre. Yes, the latest, since it appears they are becoming quite commonplace if not regular.

There are a number of parallels with the gun debate in Australia and the US, the most intriguing of which, to my mind, is the media's transference agenda - instruments are evil! The inanimate object done it!

One need only read the majority of headlines the world over to discover a truck killed 84+ people in Nice.

One could be forgiven for expecting each article to carry an eye-witness account of the truck crying "Iveco-u Akbar!" as it went.

If there is one message the public should take away from this, it's that what shooters have been saying all along is 100% correct.

If you ban guns, psychopaths will find an alternative.

From what we know now, this was not a terribly elaborate plan. A religeous zealot took advantage of circumstance and used a heavy vehicle to plough down a crowd of distracted revelers.

He needed no gun or special permits, nor special skills. He didn't even need a drivers licence to do it. He just needed motivation and opportunity.

So what can the French do to prevent future outrages of this nature?

The answer is nothing at all! The best they can hope to do is mitigate the inevitable damage, and the responsibility for that will rest chiefly with the people of France, not their government.

They will have to sacrifice their right to gather peacefully in public places, especially for well publicised events that afford the Islamic psychopath time to plan.

It really doesn't matter what percentage of Muslims are extremists, when one poorly armed nutcase can take out 84+ people. Authorities cannot be expected to monitor and assess every Muslim in the community and they won't.

It will be up to the French people to stay at home, watch what they say, never gather in places or in ways that offend or make them vulnerable to attack.

Of course if a gun had been Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel's weapon of choice, the media would be able to tell the public exactly what was needed to ensure public safety - a ban on guns...all guns...not just the extreme guns, for they all have the potential to be extreme!

But guns didn't play a major role in this event, other than to bring it to a close, and no-one would entertain a ban on motor vehicles for so much as a second.

There is only one ban that would definitely strike at the heart of France's Islamic violence epidemic.

Unfortunately its implementation would necessitate some very uncomfortable admissions of error and culpability on the part of both the French government and the media.

It's not an alien strategy. They suggest it every time there's a "gun massacre" and while a gun wasn't the main instrument of death in this case, the logic is still just as sound as it ever was.

If banning all the guns is the answer to gun violence, banning all Islam must surely be the answer to Islamic violence. Any other approach must be accepted as a risk mitigation strategy at best.

Anyway, I’ll get outaya way now...

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