[NonValueAdded]

We've seen the BITS, now it looks like it is FMCDH time.

[dannyboy72]

I know the most of the posts here are dealing with the fact that the police are taking away guns from law-abiding citizens, leaving only the criminals armed...exactly what our founding fathers enacted the constitution to forbid from happening, but I'd like to take issue with the Slimes on two points.

1. "hired by wealthy citizens" - At $15 or $20 an hour any family with insurance and savings could afford to hire a gaurd to protect their property. Is it possible that three middle class families banded together to hire a single gaurd? Why use the word "wealthy"? What is wealthy? Is there a cutoff? According to DEms it's like $70K. The Slimes again making the income earners the evil bad guys because they hired someone to protect their assets. Million bucks says there are gaurds at the front door of the Slimes even when there aren't looters running wild. It's okay for them to protect their assets and their personnel, but not the evil people in NOLA.

2. "Nearly Two Weeks after..." I've seen this going on throughout the media throughout this event. People stretching the timeline. First is was adding a day to the truth, now they're adding almost a week. The flood waters in NOLA came in on Tuesday. This story was written and filed on Wednesday for publication on Thursday. So exactly one week, plus one day. Does that equal "nearly two weeks"? No.

Hey slimes writers...how many times a day does the earth rotate in your world?

[Brad’s Gramma]

Ping if you haven't seen this.

[thoughtomator]

If something similar had happened to the Left, the ACLU would have already sued to stop it. Where's our troops on the legal battlefield?

[Liberty Valance]

Will the legal owners be able to get them back once martial law has been lifted or is that a stupid question?
One would think the 80% of folks who evacuated before the storm took theirs with them.

[bwteim]

I want to see them try and take away these guys' firearms:

Gareth Stubbs and neigbhors with five borrowed shotguns, a pistol, a flare gun, an old AK-47 and loads of ammunition strategically placed next to the blankets and pillows where they have kept watch over their neighborhood.

Above post has link to full article at http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html#077574

[michigander]

P. Edwin Compass, the superintendent of police.

Without reading through the entire thread, so far.

Is this an elected government position?

[Black Tooth]

"Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons," he said.

BS---If people are behaving themselves, and just trying to survive in this nightmare, hands off! This is not business as usual here. People have a right to defend themselves. Period!

After everything that has happened there, and from what I've heard and read, half the law enforcement in this area cannot be trusted.

Another hurricane is now brewing, and they are disarming citizens? Sheesh!

[Xenophon450]

"including legally registered firearms"

Last I heard the police were so sorely out gunned they told citizens to leave they're firearm for police use. Now that same force is disarming the law abiding populous? This is sickening.

[ebiskit]

Most of the NO Police Dept, not all mind you, reminds me in many ways of criminal UN peacekeepers.
One must recollect that there were some substantial CORRUPTION prosecutions ongoing involving a number of higher-ups in the NO Police dept. before they we're so rudely interrupted by 'Katrina' Vanden Hueval. Sounds like a damn-ol-crat/enviro-freak conspiracy to me. /sarc/
But seriously, I understand those being prosecuted we're involved in crimes such as murder(s) for hire, bribery, etc. . .
To have these foxes warden over the hen-houses for an indefinite amount of time makes a CITIZEN shudder if he is denied the right of lethal/projectile force.

ABLE DANGER
ABLE DANGER
ABLE DANGER . . . it aint over, just slightly postponed

[NYCVirago]

But that order apparently does not apply to the hundreds of security guards whom businesses and some wealthy individuals have hired to protect their property.

I'm assuming that this means that the media still get to have their armed guards. Of course, you won't hear the media caterwaul about that double standard.

[Calpernia]

More on your original heads up.

You troll you ::teasing::

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The legally armed citizen knew this was coming 24 hours ago. If they thought about it, they could have formed a militia in short order. The police would have thought twice about going against an organized militia. The state politicians would have to think long an hard about sending troops in to kill and evict people from their property to save themselves from disease. As it turned out, they didn't even have to divide to conquer.

Next time people, call yourself to arms. You, the middle-class petty bourgeois, are toast unless it puts up a massive front. The wealthy elite can hire a few private soldiers and pay off the bureaucrats to protect themselves and continue to steal your property.

[Graymatter]

Strange that nobody seems to know for certain where this confiscation order originated. And where is Mayor Moonbat today? Has he been muzzled? Last I heard, Governor Dingbat was saying the evacuation order might not be legal. Is she commenting on this new development?

[Sloth]

:-(

I need to buy a gun.

[Oatka]

". . . police officers began confiscating weapons, including legally registered firearms . . ."

So, if the guns are registered, then the police know their location. Suppose the people at that location have already left. Will the police break in and confiscate the guns "for the public safety"?

And just wot the L is a "legally" registered gun? When is a gun "illegally" registered?

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

The folks in NO are over reacting. They don't need guns. The police will protect them.

</sarcasm>

[BlackjackPershing]

Where is the NRA? File a suit against them to stop the confiscation of firearms from law-abiding citizens!

[JamminJAY]

Guess big bro will take their stockpile of food and water next.

The "official" would have a bad day around me on the gun issue.

Glad I'm in Florida, what a bunch of feel-good maroons. I guess the bloods and cripts do own N.O.

[Stew Padasso]

There are stories out there of civilians protecting their property without the help of a government goon squad. I'm sure these leftist twits in NO are all in a panic that firearms are doing exactly what they were intended to do.