i am going to be attending Tulane University in NOLA this fall and i know i would feel a hell of a lot safer if the average homeowner in New Orleans carried a gun. For the most part the people that returned to the city are the ones willing to work to restore it and their lives; these people aren't feeling especially tolerant of gangs and drug dealers, or anyone who threatens them, their children, or their neighborhoods, right now. The more upright citizens have guns in NOLA, the safer that place will be.
Most of the thugs in NOLA now live in Houston courtesy of their schmuck Mayor's "Christian charity."
What Clemenza said . . . you're good, since all the thugs are now in my neighborhood, a state away from you.