Video Of Paris Massacre Survivor, Strong Words For French Government

by Christy Lee Parker

Recently released video of an interview with a survivor from the Paris massacre, in which Muslim terrorists launched a widespread attack last November at multiple locations, contains some strong words aimed at the French government, and it’s a message that the world needs to hear.
Jesse Hughes is the frontman for The Eagles of Death Metal, which was performing in the Bataclan theater when Islamic terrorists attacked the concert, killing 89 people there. About an hour into their performance, gunman stormed into the venue and opened fire.

Able to escape, largely attributed to “dumb luck and bad shooting,” as reported by Bearing Arms, Hughes is now blasting French gun laws for “keeping the good guys from being armed” and making it “easier for the terrorists to conduct their massacre unchallenged.”
In an interview Monday with the French television station iTélé, a tearful, yet brutally honest Hughes unloaded on French gun restrictions when the interviewer made the mistake of attempting to score some political points by bringing up gun control. Hughes’ rebuttal and words raw with emotion should serve as a warning to the rest of the world.
As a longtime gun rights advocate, Hughes is speaking out, insisting that the attack shouldn’t be used to promote more gun control, but just the opposite should be happening. He had some tough questions for the French people and their government.
“Did your French gun control stop a single [expletive] person from dying at the Bataclan?” Hughes asked emotionally. “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.”
Hughes raised another point, often spoken by female gun rights advocates, saying, “God made men and women, and that night, guns made them equal.” He further stated what’s been obvious to many Second Amendment supporters in the United States, as he opined, “Until nobody has guns, everybody has to have them,” and we all know that regardless of what laws are made, those wishing to inflict harm will always find a way to get their hands on a firearm.

Bearing Arms shared further insight into Hughes’ claims:

It is worth noting that Hughes was proven correct in noting that only people armed with guns can effectively counteract terrorists, as that apparently did happen in the Paris attacks. Multiple foreign language sources indicate that two of the eight attackers were killed shortly after beginning their attack on a cafe by three of the cafe’s customers. The three drew concealed weapons and shot the terrorists to death before surrendering to French police. It’s a stretch to call these three men, later identified as Columbian cocaine cartel members, “good guys with guns,” but in the context of the attacks, they were at least the “better bad guys.”
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Just like the police officer in Garland, Texas, who was able to stop two terrorists with his issued handgun before SWAT arrived to finish the job, these three men who had concealed handguns and apparently some level of training were able to put down terrorists armed with long guns were were not as well trained and who did not expect resistance.

Jesse Hughes knows better than anyone what he’s talking about after surviving a real life worst case scenario. If we hope to defend ourselves, we need to get armed and get trained. With the Islamic State and other Muslim terrorist groups ready to kill the infidel in their pursuit to bring about their worldwide caliphate, the time is now — before it’s too late. They’ve promised to come for us, and we should believe them. That reason alone is enough to stop any further gun control legislation in its tracks.
We the People will not be made sitting ducks, awaiting our own slaughter. While a gun won’t guarantee survival, I’d prefer the odds with it rather than without it. More importantly, we will not be painted as the villain vigilantes out to hunt down our next victim with our monstrous death machines. Like Hughes, we are vulnerable, sometimes emotional human beings who just want a fair chance to live when faced with death. We care about lives — including our own and those we love. We don’t want to kill, but we don’t want to sit helplessly by while we or the people we care about are murdered. We simply seek the right to self-preservation.

You can bet that the liberal left doesn’t want Jesse Hughes’ video and words widely shared, seen, or heard. Hughes makes it much more difficult for them to spread the narrative that gun owners and Second Amendment supporters are “right-wing nut jobs” running around with guns a blazing. This interview is pivotal in this debate. It shows what real freedom defenders look like and why we are so adamant about our rights to own and bear arms. This man watched people get murdered where “gun control” is in full effect. This is the reality behind the gun control debate.