Firearms confiscation...
... for your own good, according to the morons who are running what's left of New Orleans. I'll link a New York Times article here, but you have to be a Communist ... um, I mean, a registered member, to view it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/national/nationalspecial/08cnd-storm.html?hp&ex=1126238400&en=efe0a58b7fc8e12c&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Hmmm ... let's see. Katrina hits. N.O. floods. Cops are nowhere to be found. Looting, robbing, raping and killing go nearly unchecked for a week ... except for the few armed citizens who take matters "into their own hands". Cops are either unaccounted for or, in a bizarre twist, join the looters (don't act like you haven't seen the video). Then, nearly a solid week later, the Nat'l Guard shows up, de-facto martial law is applied. City is nearly totally evacuated. Order is essentially restored ... and NOW they're confiscating guns? From people who haven't broken the law? Why?
Here's another interesting link (audio only, I think...)
http://media.putfile.com/NewOrleansGunConfiscationSmall
So much for the "mandatory evacuation" pseudo-excuse. What tripe. THEY TOOK THE GUNS, BUT DIDN'T MAKE THESE GUYS LEAVE?!?!?
Look, how would you react if armed Nat'l Guard troops beat on your door, pointed an "assault rifle" at you and demanded that you turn over your ... fire extinguisher? "Sir, you'll just get hurt if you try to take matters into your own hands and fight a fire in your home. Besides, that's what the fire department is for." What about your first-aid kit? "Sir, you'll just do more harm than good if you try to treat someone's injuries without proper training. Besides, that's what EMTs are for." Why are guns any different?
FIREMEN, EMTs AND COPS WERE AWOL FOR NEARLY A WEEK. Look, I've ranted about self-reliance before. It makes my blood boil that cops or troops would take away someone's most effective means of self-preservation - of protecting herself ... when a legally-owned gun was probably the only thing that prevented her home from being looted, her from being raped or her and/or her family from being killed.
That's government at it's best folks. To Serve and Protect. Yeah, right.
Now look, I'm NOT anti-government. Man will always create government - always has - and some structure is necessary in order for us to consider ourselves a "civilization". I'd rather have our American system of government rather than any other on the face of the earth. This is what happens when you put all your eggs in that basket, though. Government gets bigger and bigger, and inevitably less effective. And people (mostly Democrats) will inevitably want more government in response to this disaster. Government which failed us on 9/11/01. Government which failed to respond after hurricane Katrina. Government which will fail again and again. I read the 9/11 Commission report. The whole thing, cover-to-cover. I know what it says. It says government is huge, complex, and was unable to prevent 9/11. What Katrina is teaching us is that, regardless of the disaster, government will never be able to completely take care of you. You MUST be able to take care of yourself. Congressweasels will call for commissions in response to the Katrina disaster, which will tell you, in a report of about a thousand pages, what is already painfully obvious. Then they'll call for more government failure ... um, I mean, oversight.
Now we see government taking steps to prevent peoples' ability to take care of themselves. That is an unbearable stench in my nostrils. Why surrender your means of self protection totally to the government? Because it takes such good care of the poor? Because it provides such good healthcare? Because it does such a good job of educating our kids? Because it did such a good job of protecting you immediately after Katrina hit, and for nearly a week thereafter?
Wake up. Where's the Tylenol?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/national/nationalspecial/08cnd-storm.html?hp&ex=1126238400&en=efe0a58b7fc8e12c&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Hmmm ... let's see. Katrina hits. N.O. floods. Cops are nowhere to be found. Looting, robbing, raping and killing go nearly unchecked for a week ... except for the few armed citizens who take matters "into their own hands". Cops are either unaccounted for or, in a bizarre twist, join the looters (don't act like you haven't seen the video). Then, nearly a solid week later, the Nat'l Guard shows up, de-facto martial law is applied. City is nearly totally evacuated. Order is essentially restored ... and NOW they're confiscating guns? From people who haven't broken the law? Why?
Here's another interesting link (audio only, I think...)
http://media.putfile.com/NewOrleansGunConfiscationSmall
So much for the "mandatory evacuation" pseudo-excuse. What tripe. THEY TOOK THE GUNS, BUT DIDN'T MAKE THESE GUYS LEAVE?!?!?
Look, how would you react if armed Nat'l Guard troops beat on your door, pointed an "assault rifle" at you and demanded that you turn over your ... fire extinguisher? "Sir, you'll just get hurt if you try to take matters into your own hands and fight a fire in your home. Besides, that's what the fire department is for." What about your first-aid kit? "Sir, you'll just do more harm than good if you try to treat someone's injuries without proper training. Besides, that's what EMTs are for." Why are guns any different?
FIREMEN, EMTs AND COPS WERE AWOL FOR NEARLY A WEEK. Look, I've ranted about self-reliance before. It makes my blood boil that cops or troops would take away someone's most effective means of self-preservation - of protecting herself ... when a legally-owned gun was probably the only thing that prevented her home from being looted, her from being raped or her and/or her family from being killed.
That's government at it's best folks. To Serve and Protect. Yeah, right.
Now look, I'm NOT anti-government. Man will always create government - always has - and some structure is necessary in order for us to consider ourselves a "civilization". I'd rather have our American system of government rather than any other on the face of the earth. This is what happens when you put all your eggs in that basket, though. Government gets bigger and bigger, and inevitably less effective. And people (mostly Democrats) will inevitably want more government in response to this disaster. Government which failed us on 9/11/01. Government which failed to respond after hurricane Katrina. Government which will fail again and again. I read the 9/11 Commission report. The whole thing, cover-to-cover. I know what it says. It says government is huge, complex, and was unable to prevent 9/11. What Katrina is teaching us is that, regardless of the disaster, government will never be able to completely take care of you. You MUST be able to take care of yourself. Congressweasels will call for commissions in response to the Katrina disaster, which will tell you, in a report of about a thousand pages, what is already painfully obvious. Then they'll call for more government failure ... um, I mean, oversight.
Now we see government taking steps to prevent peoples' ability to take care of themselves. That is an unbearable stench in my nostrils. Why surrender your means of self protection totally to the government? Because it takes such good care of the poor? Because it provides such good healthcare? Because it does such a good job of educating our kids? Because it did such a good job of protecting you immediately after Katrina hit, and for nearly a week thereafter?
Wake up. Where's the Tylenol?
posted by Alpineman, RN at 2:40 PM
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