Posted on 08/26/2007 1:30:15 PM PDT by blam
It's obvious that all Nagin is capable of is occupying the office of mayor and making loud noises about how unfair everybody treats his "chocolate city". Governance appears to be beyond his abilities.
Maybe we could move them all to your house first . . .
Maybe we won’t just take your murderous idea seriously.
“Bush’s fault. He don’t care about black people, ya know.”
Given the subdivision mentioned, I think that the victims might well have been Vietnamese.
I bet Bush don’t care about them, neither.
That was Eddie Murphy playing a skit in SNL. Undercover Eddie...
“flush that toilet”
Geez, don’t do that. The rest of those “lovely citizens” will move to Houston and Atlanta. We’re pretty full up on them now.
Si!
“New Orleans has always been a violent city. Check the crime statistics from past years.”
It ranks up there with the world’s most dangerous cities, besides U.S..
Sad thing is, the law abiding are unarmed.
I'm sure the perps were Vietnamese as well......bwahahahahahaha....
Sad, but no coincidence.
Waaaa, waaaa. Another MSM lib crying about the plight of gun controllers.
“Do you want to be standing in line for gas, popcorn or a gallon of milk and find yourself next to someone who’s packing heat?”
Yes, I do as a matter of fact Ms Washington as long is it is a fellow law-abiding citizen.
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Gun lovers disarm control advocates
August 27, 2007
LAURA WASHINGTON novakevans@aol.com
It looks like the petulant, gun-toting NRA stalwarts have won the first round.
Last time, I used this space to ask where you stand on the issue of gun control. A torrent of e-mails later, it’s clear: Gun-control advocates were outgunned, four to one.
The gun lovers were legion, robust and vitriolic. Many of you told me to go places where the sun doesn’t shine and the temperature is way too hot. Yet, if you believe public opinion polls, that reaction is an anomaly. For instance, last April, ABC News polled adults nationwide, and asked: “Do you favor or oppose stricter gun control laws in this country?” Sixty-one percent favored them, 36 percent were opposed, and 3 percent were “unsure.”
CBS News asked, “In general, do you feel the laws covering the sale of handguns should be made more strict, less strict, or kept as they are now?” Two-thirds of respondents nationwide opted for “more strict.”
What is the problem with the advocates of gun control? Why are their voices not being heard? They are consistently cowed and overmatched. Gun violence is out of control, yet the gun lovers are ascendant.
You think we’ve got problems now? Just listen to Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential aspirant. At a recent Conservative Political Action Conference, he bragged, “I’m not a newcomer to the NRA,” the New York Times reported on its political blog. “I was the first governor to have a conceal-carry permit, so don’t mess with me.”
Huckabee, mind you, recently made a flashy second-place showing in the Iowa presidential straw poll.
Do you want to be standing in line for gas, popcorn or a gallon of milk and find yourself next to someone who’s packing heat? If he takes the White House, we can all go shopping for embossed leather holsters and pearl-handled pistols. I’ll be looking to accessorize that with rhinestone-studded boots.
Luckily, Huckabee is a long shot.
Still, despite the polls, it seems the gun control advocates have been outmatched. Abigail Spangler acknowledges as much. Spangler is the founder of ProtestEasyGuns.com, a Virginia-based group that has been spearheading a slew of anti-gun protests around the nation.
Gun control activists, she wrote me, “are TRYING HARD but they are seriously affected in state after state by lack of funding and contributions.” She recently met, she says, with the leader of Virginia’s only gun control group. “He says they may not even be able to afford any lobbyist at all soon in Virginia!”
This comes just four months after the Virginia Tech shooting massacre, which took 32 lives.
Our elected officials have either been bought off or are missing in action. The odds are against the majority of Americans who are terrified and sickened by the gun menace.
For Spangler, it comes down to one urgent hope. “Who knows whether our protests against lax gun laws will make a difference?” she asks. “It’s basically my ‘Hail Mary’ pass — a pass of desperation to the American people — that I hope they will catch.”
If I had my way, the gun lobby would be looking at three yards and a cloud of dust. Let’s get organized and shove tougher gun policies right down their throats.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/washington/529247,CST-EDT-laura27.article
Hey stupid, pass all the gun laws you can...you're not getting my gun, period!!
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