WEAPONS OF CHOICE
PARIS TERROR SURVIVOR RIPS FIREARM LAWS, ECHOES TRUMP
'Did your French gun control stop a single person from dying?
Douglas Ernst
The lead singer of the band that played in France’s Bataclan theater during last year’s terror attacks made an impassioned plea for gun rights upon his return to the country.
Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal survived the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks that claimed 130 lives across the city. The ISIS plot resulted in 89 deaths inside Bataclan theater alone.
Hughes showed no fear in answering a gun-control question on Monday during an interview with French television station iTélé.
“Did your French gun control stop a single f–king person from dying at the Bataclan?” Hughes asked, NBC News reported Tuesday. “And if anyone can answer yes, I’d like to hear it, because I don’t think so. I think the only thing that stopped it was some of the bravest men that I’ve ever seen in my life charging head-first into the face of death with their firearms.”
The singer, a long-time advocate of gun rights, said living through the ordeal has re-affirmed his position.
“I know people will disagree with me, but it just seems like God made men and women, and that night guns made them equal. I think the only way that my mind has been changed is that maybe that until nobody has guns everybody has to have them,” Hughes said.
Hughes’ comments echo the sentiments conveyed by Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump in the days after the attack. The billionaire bluntly addressed the issue just one day after the attacks during a speech in Beaumont, Texas.
“When you look at Paris – you know the toughest gun laws in the world, Paris – nobody had guns but the bad guys. Nobody had guns,” Trump told a crowd Nov. 14, 2015. “They were just shooting them one by one and then [security forces] broke in and had a big shootout and ultimately killed the terrorists. You can say what you want, but if they had guns, if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry it would’ve been a much, much different situation.”
Eagles of Death Metal’s are scheduled to play in Paris this week for the first time since the Islamic terror attacks. The California-based band will perform Tuesday night at Olympia Hall.
You have to keep your heart light. I’m not going to let the bad guys win,” Hughes told Sweden’s TV4 on Sunday
Donald Trump (Photo: Twitter)
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