The leader of the rock band playing the Bataclan in Paris the night ISIS terrorists killed 90 in the concert hall three months ago ripped French gun control laws and urged “everybody” to get a gun.
“I can’t let the bad guys win,” said Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal.
“Until nobody has guns everybody has to have them. Because I’ve never seen anyone that’s ever had one dead, and I want everyone to have access to them, and I saw people die that maybe could have lived, I don’t know,” he said in a TV interview before his Tuesday night return to a Paris stage.
Speaking in a sometimes tearful interview to iTele, Hughes added, “Did your French gun control stop a single fu—– person from dying at the Bataclan? And if anyone can answer yes, I’d like to hear it, because I don’t think so. I think the only thing that stopped it was some of the bravest men that I’ve ever seen in my life charging head-first into the face of death with their firearms.”
French commandos seized the concert venue after the attack and found hundreds wounded.
That night, in several other attacks, some 120 died.
Hughes praised city police and residents and suggested that the Bataclan was targeted for “its support of Israel” and because some workers were Jewish.
According to reports, he has hit gun control in the past and stepped that up in his interview.
“I know people will disagree with me, but it just seems like God made men and women, and that night guns made them equal. And I hate it that it’s that way,” said Hughes.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
