Posted on 05/22/2002 4:30:01 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Breaking on Fox News Channel now
That is not the problem at all. There were armed guards, there were policemen, and there was probably National Guard troops. A person can not really on other to protect himself, no matter what uniform he/she may wear.
The real problem is that common people are not permitted to carry a firearm to protect themselves and those they care about. Now someone is going to pop up and start talking about how that will also allow the terrorists to carry guns and that will just put more people in danger.
The key qualifier in that last sentence would be the word "also". The terrorists are already carrying guns, most of us are not.
And take it from a native New Orleanian..Islam is peeeeace! ;)
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The real problem is that common people are not permitted to carry a firearm to protect themselves and those they care about..
Actually, New Orleanians CAN carry concealed handguns, due to Gov. Foster's efforts in allowing us to do so. Last time I checked, you only had to get training for it (take a class). Personally I dont carry a gun because I usually dont venture down to the volatile areas of New Orleans (i.e. French Quarter, House of Blues, Canal Street, City Park). Anyone else here from LA?
Late May in New Orleans is not coat wearing weather"
Actually, we have gotten cold weather down here this week. I have had to wear a coat the last few nights of work bc I work outdoors. Very strange, bc I remember this time last year we were being eaten alive by gnats and mosquitoes, but were nowhere to be seen a few nights last week as well. Strange....
With the media's creativity, the muslim guy is going to be a hero and the woman will be called a bully, as were the columbine sickos.
Having seen pictures of this guy, and how he was dressed, makes me wonder just how he got the shotgun from his vehicle into the terminal. A pistol is easy, it can be hidden just about anywhere depending on the caliber. A shotgun, even a short one is another story.
They all read from the same book.
SHAME on people for making fun of his turban! This is the kind of thing that sets these people off. We need to be much more tolerant of other cultures.The guy's obviously touched in the head, but would everyone have the same attitude if these slackjaws were makng fun of a priest's collar or a nun's habit?
The way these things work there's little doubt the woman who got shot was even involved in the comments. He'll do some serious and well deserved time, but if he had just challenged one of the bigmouths to step outside I wouldn't really blame him. Of course that might have been a bad idea too, since haters often run in packs, like jackals.
-Eric
My impression from his name, was that he was a Black Muslim,a home grown nut,not an Arab.He was a Moslem convert but hardly black. Big boy, looked like a good-old-boy roadhouse warrior or a biker more than anything else.
-Eric
Exactly! Looks like he came prepared to make trouble, doesn't it?Is a shotgun in a pickup truck all that rare down there?
-Eric
I think we need to recruit a Sikh regiment for the U.S. Army, like the Brits used to have their Gurkas. Twenty years service, and they retire back to India on a King's pension in local money. They don't get along with Muslims, they've got a strong martial cultural heritage, and I think they work well at altitude. It's a no-brainer, but our leaders are not doing well on no-brainers lately, from what I can tell.That's actually a very good idea, though the PC patrol might not like an "ethnic regiment" too much. There's a lot of Sikhs in this country, they tend to become citizens quickly and the one's I've known are extremely pro-American.
They're not big fans of the Muslims, but definitely prefer them to the Hindus (the Indian BJP insists on calling them "Hindus", which they find insulting). They may have more empathy for Moslems now than they used to though, as some of our less intellectual "freelance terrorism fighters" have targetted Sikhs thinking they are Muslims.
-Eric
You're very kind to refer to media maggots as novices. Igonorant, liars, pathetic, effeminite, Communist, enemies of freedom, etc., come to mind when I think about reporters.
You could be right...the scumsucking, lying, uninformed, Communist rat-bas**rd news vermin may have seen a pistol grip and assumed it was "sawed off". But I for one, being a former reporter, was told to never assume, and get the facts before going on the record with anything. This is something taught in basic reporting classes in college, and that any news director worth his salt hammers into his staff's heads.
Of course, a gun was involved in this story, and double standards apply to guns, the military, etc., and to the average reporter/news director, these things are necessary evils at best. Therefore, there is in the mainstream media a blase to outright hostile attitude toward them (nothing new here). I've actually set reporters and news directors straight on matters of firearms and the military, only to watch them go ahead and misreport the information. I remember one guy, reporting on a shooting, who called a Charter Arms Bulldog a "Saturday Night Special". When I corrected him, he said it "sounded better" his way.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Interesting natural reaction. I must remember that if faced with this in the future the better reaction is to leave.
The nutcase responsible for this atrocity was a home grown, converted Muslim.
Made fun of his turban, hey?? My suggestion, follow Vlad Dracul and nail it to his head!!
I know what you mean. I spent five years of my life as a writer and editor for several trade publications that catered to the golf and landscaping industry. The publisher I worked for had this novel idea that his writers/editors should know something about the things they wrote about - that experience in a particular area was more important than a degree in English or Urinalism (my particular area of expertise was equipment selection, use and maintenance).
Whenever we would go to industry functions, my "peers" were always amazed that our staff writers/editors (we all functioned in both roles) were not English and Jouralism majors. But the readers recognized competent writing and the fact that we killed our competitors in circulation and ad sales proved it.
And as much as our peers in the trades looked down on us, the paid circ magazine folks though us Pariahs, because all of our revenue came from advertisers! This meant to them that we were all whores, even though we did not cater to advertiser wishes - like our less successful competitor mags did.
Truth is a powerful weapon. It never ceased to amaze me how few people in the magazine business were interested in it if it did not fit some personal agenda.
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