The Gambit has a
horribly biased cover story on the increase in gun sales in the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina. It discusses what it calls the "delicate balance between people's need to protect themselves and the proliferation of guns in an increasingly violent city," when the real balance is between law-abiding citizens and criminals. It suggests that former Mayor Marc Morial's disastrous and hypocritical lawsuit against the gun industry failed due to opposition from the legislature and the NRA, when it failed due to the obvious fact that killers, not gun manufacturers, are responsible for their actions. The article wanders into irresponsible fantasyland when it suggests that the police can preempt crime from happening so that self-protection is unnecessary.
Congressman Bill Jefferson, who has achieved a grade of "F" from the NRA for his anti-gun record, apparently only seeks to disarm the rest of us, not himself. He admitted to keeping rifles and shotguns in his home and was forced to surrender them in response to his indictment.
The Gambit has a horribly biased cover story on the increase in gun sales in the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina. It discusses what it calls the "delicate balance between people's need to protect themselves and the proliferation of guns in an increasingly violent city," when the real balance is between law-abiding citizens and criminals. It suggests that former Mayor Marc Morial's disastrous and hypocritical lawsuit against the gun industry failed due to opposition from the legislature and the NRA, when it failed due to the obvious fact that killers, not gun manufacturers, are responsible for their actions. The article wanders into irresponsible fantasyland when it suggests that the police can preempt crime from happening so that self-protection is unnecessary.
The federal judge in the National Rifle Association's lawsuit against the City granted NRA’s motion to hold Mayor Nagin and Police Superintendent Warren Riley in contempt of court for “failure to provide initial disclosures and to compel answers to discovery” during NRA’s injunction against the City for their illegal gun confiscation of law abiding citizens following Hurricane Katrina in 2006.
