So....there was another shootout with terrorists in Belgium...where did they get the guns?

[2aguy]

So...they captured the ring leader of the Paris attacks...you know...the one where 8 guys with fully automatic weapons...illegal in France....shot over 130 people...in gun controlled France.

The terrorist leader and his buddies shot it out with police...where did they get the guns?

Did Belgian gun control stop them?

Also...what if they decided to go out in a jihadi show...and had attacked a local school, mall or other public place...what stopped them from doing that? Apparently, the police did not believe this guy was at the location...they just lucked into finding him...

So....did Belgian gun control stop a known terrorist from getting fully automatic weapons? No.

Did Belgian gun control prevent this guy and his amigos from committing a mass public shooting? No.

What did stop their possible mass public shooting? Pure, dumb, luck...two times over. Why 2x over...because they did not choose to shoot people in a public place before the confrontation with police....and because the only reason they were caught in the first place was the police stumbled on them accidentally...

But...on the plus side....law abiding Belgians did not have access to fully automatic rifles....so gun control did work for what it was intended to do...disarm people who don't commit gun crimes.

Capture of Paris terror suspect in Brussels unfolded over several watchful days

 

[waltky]

ISIS claims responsibility for Brussels bombings...

Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Brussels Attacks, Killing at Least 31
March 22, 2016 - Bombs exploded Tuesday at the Brussels airport and in the city's subway, killing at least 31 people and wounding dozens, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks.

The two airport blasts, at least one of them blamed on a suicide bomber, left behind a chaotic scene of splattered blood in the departure lounge as windows were blown out, ceilings collapsed and travelers streamed out of the smoky building. About an hour later, another bomb exploded on a rush-hour subway train near the European Union headquarters. Terrified passengers had to evacuate through darkened tunnels to safety. "What we feared has happened," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said. "In this time of tragedy, this black moment for our country, I appeal to everyone to remain calm but also to show solidarity."

This image provided by the Belgian Federal Police in Brussels shows three men who are suspected of taking part in that attacks at Belgium's Zaventem Airport.​

Belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level, diverting planes and trains and ordering people to stay where they were for most of the workday. Airports across Europe - and in the New York area - tightened security. "We are at war," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said after a crisis meeting in Paris. "We have been subjected for the last few months in Europe to acts of war." Added French President Francois Hollande: "Terrorists struck Brussels, but it was Europe that was targeted, and it is all the world which is concerned by this."

This photo provided by Georgian Public Broadcaster and photographed by Ketevan Kardava show two women wounded in Brussels Airport​

European security officials have been bracing for a major attack for weeks and warned that the Islamic State group was actively preparing to strike. The arrest Friday of Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, heightened those fears, as investigators said many more people were involved than originally thought and that some are still on the loose. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Brussels attacks, saying in a post on the group's Amaq news agency that its extremists opened fire in the airport and "several of them" detonated suicide belts. It said another suicide attacker struck in the subway. The post claimed the attack was in response to Belgium's support of the international coalition arrayed against the group.

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