And this is the conservative!
Nicolas Sarkozy, frontrunner as conservative French President:
-speaking to a person worried about criminals
"I would like to say one thing, in what is my conception of the Republic,
security is the responsibility of the State, I am against militias, I am
against the private ownership of firearms, and Ičm trying to make you
think about that. If you are assaulted by an armed burglar, hečll use his
weapon more effectively than you anyway so youčre risking your life. If
the criminal is not armed and you are and you shoot, your life will be
ruined, because killing someone over a theft is not in line with the
republican values that are mine. The private ownership of firearms is
dangerous. I understand your exasperation for having been burglarized two
times, I understand the fear that your wife and daughter may have but the
answer is in the efficiency of the police and the efficiency of the
judiciary process, the answer is not in having guns at home."
http://www.armes-ufa.org/ufa/campagn...-sarko-txt.asp
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