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How the Nice Attack will Change the Gun Control Debate

<p>A single man killed more than 80 people in Nice&comma; France Thursday when he drove a semi truck through more than a mile of crowded streets&period; This tragic incident proves that a criminal or terrorist does not need a gun to kill lots of people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Dems were quick to blame guns last month when a single terrorist killed more than 50 innocents in an Orlando nightclub&comma; but how will they respond to the attack in Nice&quest;&nbsp&semi;The violence cannot be blamed on guns this time&comma; and I guarantee the Dems won&rsquo&semi;t start an effort to ban semi trucks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Nice attack&nbsp&semi;should prove to gun control advocates that banning guns is not going to stop terrorist attacks&period; Terrorists do not obey the laws&comma; so banning guns will have no effect on their behavior&period; Instead of taking potentially deadly weapons away from everyone&comma; we must put our efforts into identifying terrorists and stopping attacks before they happen&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On top of that&comma; it&rsquo&semi;s simply impossible to ban every object or tool that might allow a person to kill dozens of people&period;&nbsp&semi;I have this thought every time I go through airport security and I see passengers forced to part with pocket knives&comma; eyeglass repair kits&comma; and other &ldquo&semi;deadly&rdquo&semi; items&period;&nbsp&semi;A person&rsquo&semi;s two fists can be just as deadly as a knife if you know how to use them&comma; but we aren&rsquo&semi;t going to&nbsp&semi;force people to wear mittens in crowded areas&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>No terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the Bastille Day attack&period; As the investigation continues&comma;&nbsp&semi;President Hollande has declared a 3-month&comma; nationwide state of emergency&period; PB has speculated that the repeated terrorist attacks in France are designed to sow discord between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe&comma; eventually leading to the mobilization of an insurgent force of frustrated Muslims&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We can already see evidence of this plan through the reaction of&nbsp&semi;National Front party leader Marine Le Pen&comma; who has called for a&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;war against the scourge of Islamic fundamentalism&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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