Exclusive: After Westgate, Interpol Chief Ponders 'Armed Citizenry' - ABC News
I missed this news when it happened, but saw it in an article by Joe Waldron, former US Marine Col. and now gun rights activist.
Ron Noble was a top BATF official in the Clinton admin. You would expect him to be reliably anti-gun. He now heads Interpol in Lyon, France, an international org with 100+member nations including the U.S.
In late October, after the terrorist attack in Kenya that killed 39, Noble addressed Intepol
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Originally Posted by Joe Waldron
Noble opened the presentation with, "Ask yourself: If that was Denver, Colorado, or if that was Texas, would those guys have been able to spend hours, days, shooting people randomly?" He went on to say, "Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with the evolving threat of terrorism?"
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And in the ABC news interview he explains:
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Originally Posted by ABC News
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Noble said there are really only two choices for protecting open societies from attacks like the one on Westgate mall where so-called "soft targets" are hit: either create secure perimeters around the locations or allow civilians to carry their own guns to protect themselves.
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Wow. Never thought I'd hear that from a Clinton era BATF official. Times they are a changing.
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