re: #48 Dark_Falcon

Only 1 cop was actually in the building when the attack happened. The officer whose death was caught on film was responding to the incident when he came across the terrorists.

Even in the US police seldom carry longarms unless they are actively expecting danger. The Beretta Model 92G that the French police carried is a good handgun, but in this case it was massively overmatched by the AKm assault rifles the terrorists employed.

Except in the case of CH, they had been firebombed in Nov 2011, so extra security should have been warranted. And I picked up the “2” from news reports.