The Attack on Paris: Free Speech was Crushed That Day

Cherif and Said Kouachi: The Murderers of Paris's Free Speech

According to Al Jazeera, the anger that caused the attacks on the French magazine publisher, Charlie Hebdo, killing 17 people, had pre-existed the issue where the cartoon of Muhammad had been in circulation. Due to the United States invading the country of Iraq in the year 2003, the two brothers that are suspects, Cherif and Said Kouachi, felt as if Westerners were attacking Muslims. However, when Charlie Hebdo published the cartoon, the two felt that their previous feelings were affirmed and that they must fight back. During the U.S. fighting in Iraq, Cherif had attempted to join the fight against America and its allies, but was caught and imprisoned. After this incident, his older brother, Said, had attended training sessions from Al Qaeda in the country of Yemen. Cherif had attempted to break out of prison in 2010, but was unsuccessful and was given life in prison after the action. Also, due to the attacks in Paris, many other European countries are on alert. The country of Belgium has posted a number of soldiers to protect Jewish civilians and locations that pose a great deal of importance. Other countries, such as Britain and Italy, have attempted to protect against anti-Semitism and even expelled nine jihadis out of the country. In the midst of all of this mass hysteria, France continues to search for suspects in the attacks. The country's police had recently released three female suspects, while retaining nine others in custody. There have been violent protests throughout various Muslim countries due to the continuation of the Charlie Hebdo's anti-Muslim cartoons. The Kouachi brothers had been killed by police and later were buried in secret places in France. The need for secret graves is so radicals do not create a shrine out of their graves. It just saddens me to see people slaughtered with no way to protect themselves. I only wish that the "good-guys" had a firearm that could have been used to defend themselves, but instead France is a gun control "utopia," so the mad men get a free shooting ground until the police arrive. The only things that people had to shoot the attackers with were their cameras, and that sickens me. I am sorry to say, but taking guns away does not take the guns out of the hands of the criminal, only the law-abiding citizen, and that is demonstrated here perfectly. The black market just made the Kouachi brothers two very happy murderers, but had the people of Charlie Hebdo and on the rooftops filming the whole thing had firearms to defend themselves, the situation would have been entirely different.

I could not have said it better myself Mr. Noir.