After Katrina, me and some neighbors started carrying openly on our hip or via shoulder holster. While I was posting an “Armed Community - Looters Will Be Shot” sign at the entrance to our road, a Florida Trooper cruised by - he smiled and headed out to find an area that might need his protection. Mississippi didn’t consider messing with our weapons in an emergency - on the other hand, New Orleans actively confiscated weapons and we all know how safe that made them...
Bobby Jindal, working closely with the NRA, got a law passed here in Louisiana that will prevent that from happening again.
BTW, it is not against the law to openly carry in Louisiana, but you must have a permit to carry a concealed firearm.
We had a fairly high-level executive from our state's fire service and emergency management agency, who warned residents not to consider going to Louisiana to assist relatives or friends in their communities after several local churches had organized relief teams. Those *freelancers* would be arrested and their supplies confiscated, he warned.
We advised him: anyone attempting to do so or otherwise interfere with our activities [down around Pass Christian, MS] would be considered a looter, and we would hang them or shoot them on the spot, their *emergency managers* included.
And then we'd return to our home state and burn down their houses.
Nobody tried to interfere with us in any way.