look, you might want to rewrite history, be my guest.
So for the record. YES, people did have their guns taken, NO I will not give you their names, addresses, or places of work.
YOU missed the sarcasm in “Just following orders” I do NOT know your kin, but yes, ALOT of the National Guard did act like THUGS.
Love your revised history about Katarina, the rest of us will remember the TRUTH.
Well, it was Hurricane Katrina, not “Katarina,” but maybe that was a typo.
And it IS possible to give firsthand details about specific incidents—as I did—without giving names or addresses.
Your refusal to do so, and continuing wild, vague accusations only reaffirms my suspicions that you’re simply repeating things you read on the internet.
That a few guns may have been confiscated from looters, as well as people acting irresponsibly —most of which were later RETURNED— is not in dispute. That has been documented. Some of those confiscated weapons were determined to have been stolen, and were even returned to their rightful owners—also well documented.
That some NOPD officers are corrupt, and may have STOLEN weapons is absolutely possible. Some officers stole Cadillacs. Some officers routinely shake down drug dealers, stealing cash and dope.
But the common internet meme, that NOPD and National Guard, acting together, were “going door to door” or even “kicking down doors” to confiscate weapons from law-abiding gun owners on orders from above to do so?
Nope.
There was no such order —not from Bush, Gov. Blanco, Nagin, NOPD Chief Campo, Sheriff Harry Lee, or NG commanders— to confiscate weapons from law abiding citizens. Did. Not. Happen.
Fact: Various agencies DID go door to door, and even kicked doors down, but their orders were to look for survivors, and to note the presence of dead bodies.
Fact: SOME weapons WERE confiscated from thugs, looters, and people waving them around and acting irresponsibly, as well as empty houses, to keep them out of the hands of thieves. These were returned to claimants; some may have been STOLEN by opportunists among the responders.
Fact: Weapons left behind by evacuees were stolen by looters.
And those facts have been conflated to “officers, acting on orders from above, were going door to door, confiscating weapons.”
That doesn’t mean that Obama’s minions won’t do it in the future. But misrepresenting past events makes us look like idiots.
BTW, nobody was “herded” into “FEMA camps,” after Katrina, either.