You Don't Need A GUN For Protection!

This was 2017:

France's Macron: Anti-terror drive 'top priority'
29 August 2017
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41081967

"It's a human duty to welcome migrants," he said, while admitting that "it's a considerable challenge for all European countries".
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This is now:

France unrest: Third night of riots after police shoot teen, officer charged
June 29, 2023
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-150-arrests-overnight-unrest-after-teenager-killed-by-police-2023-06-29/

Protesters set up barricades, burn cars, ransack bank
France to deploy 40,000 police officers
Officer charged with shooting 17-year-old in Paris suburb
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Annnnnnnnnnnnd . . . the average all-emoting but utterly non-thinking liberal would declare that "It's all worth it for the self-righteous and feel-good virtue-signaling!" Then add in a whisper, "Just as long as all of the negative and inevitable consequences happen to someone else."

Indeed.