Oh, by the way, the Paris attack also highlights the futility of gun control.

If liberals had their way, the glorious European utopia would be the model upon which all of human society would built. Whether you're discussing taxes, healthcare, jobs, or welfare, Europe is the gold left-wing gold standard. Nowhere, however, is their unbridled euro-fetish more glaringly obvious than in the gun control debate.

America could be a crime-free wonderland if, they say, the brutish slobs who populate the United States would simply embrace the hardcore anti-gun paranoia present in places like France. This morning, we saw a bit of where that paranoia leads. As the Daily Caller writes:

"Three policemen had arrived on bikes but had to leave because the men were armed, obviously," Benoit Bringer, who works on the same floor as Charlie Hebdo's offices, told France Info radio, according to The Guardian. "Then the attackers took off in a car." CBS News also reported — citing a reporter with Britain's Telegraph newspaper — that the two officers were apparently unarmed. Paris police officers have the option of carrying firearms, though many choose not to.

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Yes, guns are such a bugaboo along the Champs Elysees that even the police - charged with protecting the city's civilian population - choose not to carry. So, when they run into a few mass murdering Islamic terrorists carrying AK-47's, they simply "leave." Speaking of those terrorists, not only did they avoid a police encounter due to France's gun-phobia, they were - almost miraculously - able to bring machine guns into downtown Paris. How that's possible, given the country's strict gun control laws, is a question that has baffled former DNC chairman, Howard Dean.

The interesting thing here, is we talked about guns the last time in regarding the United States, regarding how guns get in the hands of the kind of people that kill the two police officers here two weeks ago. France has tremendous gun control laws, and yet these people are able to get Kalashnikovs. So, this is really complicated stuff, and I think you have to treat these people as basically mass murderers.

As we mentioned this morning, Dean prefers to call them "mass murderers" because he can't bring himself to label them "Muslim terrorists." That aside, Dean is coming dangerously close to acknowledging a truth that the right has been shouting for decades. We're sure the left will never admit it, but the fact is that gun bans simply don't work. Despite the fact that liberals are eager to point out that "criminalizing drugs hasn't stopped the spread of drugs," they somehow feel that banning guns will stop gun violence. In reality, Europe's campaign to demonize and eliminate firearms has only neutered the populace, made private citizens vulnerable to attack, and created an irrational disdain for guns - even in the police.