October 3, 2016 | No Comments
The National Rifle Association is making political hay from the robbery of reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris late Sunday night, tweeting that France’s strict gun laws did not protect the world-famous socialite from armed criminals.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Kardashian was in Paris for that city’s fashion week event when five armed robbers, dressed as policemen, entered the residence where she was staying, tied her up and made off with roughly $10 million worth of jewelry. A spokesman for Kardashian said she was “badly shaken, but physically unharmed.”
“Wait, criminals held @KimKardashian at gunpoint in Paris?” the NRA posted to its official Twitter account. “How is that possible? Does anyone know if they passed a background check first?”
“It’s shocking that these criminals did not subject themselves to Paris’ strict #guncontrol laws before committing this awful crime,” it wrote minutes later.
The response to Kardashian’s robbery is similar to previous responses from the NRA to acts of violence — implying that more crime would be deterred by an armed populace. Donald Trump, who the NRA has endorsed for president, said after last November’s attacks in Paris that gun laws there were partially to blame for the high death toll.
“Had there been some guys with a gun, there would have been a shootout and probably the primary people that would have got whacked would have been the killers,” Trump said in an interview with CNBC just days after the attack that left 137 people dead.
“You can’t any tougher than Paris, and you can’t get any tougher than France” on gun control, he continued. “They just said, come here, boom, come here, boom … shot these people at will.”