A sea change has taken place with the events in New Orleans. We must react forcefully. If you haven't called your representatives and the NRA you are passively accepting the inevitable. If you hate the NRA, call the GOA etc. Do something. If this stands the 2cnd amendment is toast. (It may already be toast but we must try "for the children". I want my child to grow up in a country where there are some freedoms.)
P.s. To all the FR cops. I have seen very few of you denounce this. If the cops on FR support this - what must it be like in the rank and file.
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If the NRA is so committed to this, then the plan needs to be laid out for it membership in extreme detail...
Forget about the statute for now...That can be dealt with in due course...
#1 Suspend and investigate the officer who acted upon that woman in her own home...Get the full story out there whether it goes our way or not...
#2 Every single firearm confiscated under this inappropriate order will be located and returned to its owner before the end of the week...If a full attempt to return is not documented, and or the weapons not returned in an expiditious manner to their owners, the City of New Orleans will be fined $1000 per day, per firearm, till the issue is resolved...Period...This needs a court to rule on this unfortunately...Maybe our future CJ nominee can make an impact on this next month, first thing...
#3 Don't ever, ever do it again...Thats the message that needs to be tattooed under the eyelids of a few people in the country...Leave it alone...Guns are not the problem...
This seems extremely reasonable and do-able...Considering the offence these officials committed by exploiting a vague guideline within the law...
They know they were testing to see who would pop up and notice what they did...
Time to put a lid on it all...
And if any Law Enforcement in the FR community has a problem with my tone, please by all means contact me...I welcome the opinions of that community, and will be glad to clarify my opinion if you feel I may be critical of Law Enforcement, which I am not...
And let's strive to make it 8 million by next year...
["Local authorities in New Orleans are turning nature’s assault on human life into man’s assault on human rights,"]
I believe the end of a free America and the bill of rights went out the door the day the five socialist supreme court judges allowed rich men to steal poor working class people's properties if they would pay higher taxes.
And no one in our conservative party has said or done a thing; the pubs are weak and foolish people and I don't belive they are worth voting for anymore.
Those cops who have done this should be prosecuted, stripped of their on own guns, and set out into the flood zone again armed only with tasers.
Thanks for the ping.
Glad to hear this news. Our local San Antonio so called conservative radio talk show host had come out in support of the forced evacuations.
That was bad enough, but today when I turned him on he was peeing all over himself because he got to go down to NO and hang out with the National Guard and apparently with the BATF too. He said he was really impressed with the BATF. You should have heard him practically begging on the air to be invited into their circle so he could lick their boots some more. It was sickening.
I'll give a personal testimony to all FR's. I live in Florida and in last hurricane season my community was ravaged by two of the four hurricanes. There was no power, no immediate police protection, and no public services. We were ON OUR OWN. Florida gives easy access to firearms to all non-felons. We even have a right-to-carry law. As a precaution against possible looters I loaded my .38 Special. The important fact is that the criminals were very well aware that people all over the state were prepared to defend their lives and property. Guess what? There was no looting. In case anyone thinks my situation is anecdotal, I refer him to John Lott's many well researched books, especially "More Guns, Less Crime". The proven fact is that guns possessed by law-abiding citizens deters violent crimes. In our nanny state people have come to believe that at all times in every situation "somebody else" will look after them. But when you're really ALONE and there's no help -- who's going to protect your family and your property? ONLY YOU.
Here's the bootlickers home page if you want to see what he looks like.
http://www.woai.com/radio/bolton/
I want to watch the NOPD take the assault rifles away from the Blackwater Security guys and other mercenaries that have been hired to protect private property.
Could you please ping this? It looks like the NRA is finally waking up.
The guy that body slammed the old woman was a CHP as in California or Connecticut ....I head a strong Boston or NYC accent from someone in that fiasco ?
Stay safe !
I am totally lucky. Why? I don't live in NOLA. So? Well, if I did, I'd probably be dead...after surviving the hurricane. (And the LEOs/spooks/alphabet agencies on this site who know me know exactly what I mean).
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Whaaat!? I read FR every day but I missed that one.
What happened?
If the NRA performs to its usual level, it'll huff and puff and come up with a 'compromise' solution that confiscation is OK so long as the NRA is part of the process.
So far as the Bush administration is concerned, their position will be that the RKBA is an individual right and individuals can appeal to the courts. Expect no action nor even much lip service.
The true American philosophy of Government has always not only recognized the right of the citizen to private arms, but has sought to encourage its exercise as one of the true foundational pillars of our whole system. (See The Right & Duty To Keep & Bear Arms. George Washington actually wanted Congress to appropriate funds to make sure that every family could afford to arm its young manhood.)
One also hears tales of Governmental personnel (FEMA, etc.) appropriating private property. What needs to be addressed, with clarity and determination, is the whole idea of substituting utilitarian premises--the greatest good for the greatest number--for the moral foundations of American society. The individual does not hold his basic rights to property and to take measures for personal protection by the leave of the present Governments. They are not subject to being seized because of an emergency. (There is a right of eminent domain, but not without a corresponding right to compensation and due process--and certainly not at the whim of lower level bureaucrats.)
The damage from the Hurricane may have been as severe as has been reported (although where you snap the pictures certainly controls the impressions created), but no mere storm--however terrible--must be allowed to blow American principles away. This is the one land on earth built upon the principle that the individual matters; that his rights are not the collective's to take away.
William Flax
To whom it may concern, and you know who you are, please knock off the personal stuff.