The NRA and New Orleans

From the CNN:

The National Rifle Association has hired private investigators to find hundreds of people whose firearms were seized by city police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to court papers filed this week.

The NRA is trying to locate gun owners for a federal lawsuit that the lobbying group filed against Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley over the city's seizure of firearms after the August 29, 2005, hurricane.

In the lawsuit, the NRA and the Second Amendment Foundation claim the city violated gun owners' constitutional right to bear arms and left them "at the mercy of roving gangs, home invaders, and other criminals" after Katrina.

(Sigh.)

Insurgencies Amok!

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This was the stop story on their website at 12:00 AM Central Time.

Do YOU want municipal police being armed with assault rifles?

Is it just because the Brady Bill expired and criminals have more and better guns?

Is this want we want in our urban landscape? Is this what we want in our communities?

John Timoney, Miami's police chief and recent military assault rifle acquire-er, used to be head of Philly police in the late '90s. Crime stats went down and he was pretty popular. He worked with then-Mayor Ed Rendell who was fairly popular and went on to chair the DNC and become our two-term Gov. (He does annoying stuff now, like put casinos in my old neighborhood.) They "got tough" on crime - I own a copyright on that - and put more cops on the streets.

Rendell brought him over directly from Future President Hizzoner.

...Meanwhile...

We Americans Love Our Guns

Polly Thomas of Metairie is running for State Senate. She's going to be tough on crime.
From the Times-Pic:

The specter of crime, and the memory of her own close brush with it, turned state Senate candidate Polly Thomas of Metairie into a pistol-packing grandma who showed her hardware during a recent candidate forum.

While addressing members of Crimefighters Inc. on Oct. 5, Thomas pulled a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol from her handbag to dramatize the point that she will be tough on crime if elected to represent the 9th District.

Jeez. People be crazy since the storm.

The stunt went over okay, people didn't duck or run for the doors, but she didn't get the endorsement she was seeking.

Since Rudy Giuliani is hoping to earn the support of the NRA, maybe he should have busted out his Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol instead of answering a phone call from wife Judith. If his campaign was really smart, they would soon reveal that Rudy's third wife IS a Glock 19 semi-automatic pistol. They like to stay in touch.