Tell that to the three families of the three people who died in France, or the 16 others that were injured, or any of the families who lost a loved one to gun violence in any of the countries where there is no right to bear arms.
"tell that to the families" isn't a statistically backed argument. If he told that to the families of those 3 people, he would still be telling the truth. Statistically you're way more likely to be shot in the US than you are in France and you can definitely have more peace of mind walking down the street in France than you can in the US, which is what he was saying.
I lived in Germany for 3 years, Germany has strict gun laws, especially with handguns (although they can still own rifles for hunting and sport). Police don't even carry guns in Germany because there's no need to. I used to walk down some of the "worst" neighborhoods in the city I lived in, in the middle of the night and never had any fear whatsoever.
I won't even walk in my own neighborhood in Tolleson, Arizona in the middle of the night because the armed robberies are getting so bad here the Phoenix police department is having to send courtesy patrols to drive around our neighborhoods.
I used to love walks in the cool air in the middle of the night, now I can't enjoy them because there's a good chance I'll get a fucking gun put in my face.
People are way too quick to pull guns here. Seems like almost every day around our country I read stories about people pulling guns on other people in road rage incidents, people are shooting at other people because they get cut off driving. Or the stories of white people pulling guns on minorities because they get close to their yard lol shit is fucking ridiculous.
Americans are fucking retards. The majority of Americans are too stupid to handle the responsibility of a gun.
I don't really understand the argument of this thread anyway. Those people were killed in a supermarket. Even in gun crazy American the average person isn't strapping up to go grocery shopping, so how exactly is giving French people guns gonna stop this incident? We have incidents like this here constantly and we're all strapped up and they ain't getting stopped. For every "good guy with a gun" story stopping a bad guy how many dozens and dozens of gun related incidents happen here without the good guy with a gun.
French people don't want guns anyway, I don't understand why Americans are raging for them to get them, when the French don't even want them and the majority of voters in France continue to support gun control.