Terrorist uses a truck, Ban All Trucks!!!

[Barth]

My heart goes out to the families of those lost in this ridiculous and senseless act.
But this particular event highlights that we need criminal control - not gun control.
The tool isn't the problem.
The perpetrator IS!
Killing people is easy, healing them makes you great.
Focusing on the tools killers use, without focusing on the killers, is unacceptable.

It's time for America to get smart

[Redstate]

I don't think that the progressives in governement who spew anti-gun rhetoric actually believe in their rhetoric. A government that attempts to ban firearms is merely seeking more control of us peons. An unarmed society is a defenseless society.

[knkali]

Agreed
open question to all......if this happened near you would you pull you gun and shoot the driver? I thought I would until I thought that a scenario such as this could have happened due to a stuck accelerator. How do you know its a vehicle malfunction vs. terror act?

[Alfonse]

I do not know of any vehicle whose accelerator can overpower applied brakes and particularly a truck. The engine can also be switched off. Stuck accelerator? Not buying it.

[340pd]

Actually the police had that area blocked off and it was a designated "vehicle free zone"

[knkali]

darn good points...need to reconsider my reconsider

[downtownv]

darn good points...need to reconsider my reconsider

KNkali, I gave you a better avatar....

[tjm]

Agreed
open question to all......if this happened near you would you pull you gun and shoot the driver? I thought I would until I thought that a scenario such as this could have happened due to a stuck accelerator. How do you know its a vehicle malfunction vs. terror act?

If I were to see several tons of steel barreling down at me, best thing would be to get the heck out of the way.

[knkali]

KNkali, I gave you a better avatar....

what?

[yqtszhj]

I don't think that the progressives in governement who spew anti-gun rhetoric actually believe in their rhetoric. A government that attempts to ban firearms is merely seeking more control of us peons. An unarmed society is a defenseless society.

This right herr. Next is the first amendment.

[yqtszhj]

Agreed
open question to all......if this happened near you would you pull you gun and shoot the driver? I thought I would until I thought that a scenario such as this could have happened due to a stuck accelerator. How do you know its a vehicle malfunction vs. terror act?

By the time I see him going for the third or 4th person weaving back and forth he's going down.

Side note, look how much money the French LEO's saved on prosecution of the subject.

[downtownv]

what?

Get rid ig Brittany with the tinfoil hat.... put your new Brittany up there!

[knkali]

got it......man I would but its a family show here

[Redstate]

This right herr. Next is the first amendment.

Yep. don't say anything bad about muslims or global warming, or you will get loretta "lynched".

[CJB]

Folks, lets be REASONABLE here.....

First of all, the driver was using a Renault truck with a 19 ton cargo capacity.

There is no need for an ordinary person to have a 19 ton cargo capacity.

Therefore, I can fully support a ban on high capacity cargo capability.

A restriction of all high cargo capacity vehicles would not hamper ordinary people or those individuals who like to drive trucks, or even those who occasionally haul cargo.

A limit of cargo capacity to five hundred pounds, maximum, would only effect a very small percentage of people. The military, and police would be exempted from the ban, of course.

A truck buy back program, paid for by tax dollars, for all high capacity trucks, should be initiated.

And, the truck manufacturers should be held responsible for all of the high capacity trucks they have ever manufactured.

Recognizing the various truck collections in private hands, antique trucks in collections could be exempt from the ban, and buy back, but only if the truck is registered as a high capacity truck, and a special tax stamp is purchased... after a thorough background check, and notification and consent of the chief local law enforcement official.

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