I was hoping it was a rhetorical device...

But no, alas, they seem to be quite serious:  The Washington Post ask France has strict gun laws. Why didn’t that save Charlie Hebdo victims?

le sigh.

#JeSuisCharlie

#JeSuisCharlesMartel

Also, #JeSuisAhmed*




*The assumption is that as the son of North African immigrants named "Ahmed", Officer Merabet was a Muslim, practicing or not. It is entirely possible, of course that he was Catholic, or Atheist, or Asatru, or...