Two machetes

A guy – un mec – attacked soldiers guarding The Louvre and they shot him.

Police in Paris say a man attacked soldiers when they told him he couldn’t enter an underground shopping mall beneath the sprawling Louvre Museum with his bags.

Yves Lefebvre, a police union official, says the man tried to stab one of the soldiers. The attacker was shot five times.

Lefebvre says police found two machetes on the man.

There were about 1000 people in the museum; they were hustled into safer areas without windows if they weren’t already there. They were allowed to leave after a couple of hours.

Trump, of course, is overjoyed. He takes this to be a vindication of his cunning plan to Prevent All The Mooslims.

It’s bad. It’s horrible. It’s horrible that there’s that kind of hatred and ill-will brooding away and exploding into violence at intervals. What it’s not, however, is a serious threat to people in general. It’s nothing like the threat presented by, for instance, cars. It’s not even close to a reason to start banning refugees from Mooslim countries.

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