“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms ... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”-- Thomas Jefferson
Gun Possession Now OK at FEMA Housing
NEW ORLEANS - Following complaints from gun-rights groups, FEMA said Monday it is lifting a ban on firearms at emergency housing parks built in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Under the new federal policy, residents can possess and store firearms. Use of weapons is still prohibited in the parks, said Butch Kinerny, a spokesman for FEMA.
FEMA said it has been general policy for several years to prohibit guns at such parks anywhere in the country. But two gun rights groups — the National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation — said they found out about it only this month as a 600-trailer encampment opened near Baton Rouge.
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre praised the change. "It is wrong to force citizens to give up their constitutional rights in order for them to get a needed federal benefit," he said in a news release.
Col. Greg Phares, chief sheriff's deputy in Baton Rouge, had asked for a firearms ban at the park. He expressed frustration Monday, saying FEMA gave him conflicting information on whether there was such a ban in the first place. He also said gun-rights groups overreacted.
"I never looked at it, and I don't look at it now, as a Second Amendment issue," Phares said. "We had asked for FEMA to say firearms would not be permitted on site, just as you can't bring firearms into the federal building, into the Legislature in Baton Rouge, into an LSU football game."
Well of course you NEVER looked at it as a 2nd Amendment issue, you sorry excuse for a law enforcement officer...what...the Constitution isn't the law anymore? Or do you just selectively pick and chose WHICH laws you enforce? Oh, beg pardon, I forgot you are a cop in a liberal, Democratic town where people aren't "allowed" to protect themselves because the government is just so good at it.
And beg pardon chief deputy-dawg, but where in all hells did this football game analogy come from, besides of course straight out of your ass? We're talking about the places these people LIVE. Okay? Call me if you forget and I'll help you out. Reverse the charges, even.
Okay, we've heard from the feeble chief sheriff's deputy, now where's the obligatory average-citizen wishing to announce that he or she is afraid of guns? Ah, here it is:
Yolanda Vaughn, who along with her husband, Dwain, moved into the park earlier this month after evacuating from the New Orleans area, said she could see both sides of the gun issue.
"Dwain and I have never had a gun so that's OK for us, but I do realize there are people who need to protect themselves," she said. "But if a person loses control, they may hurt somebody."
Sorry Yolanda, but dismantilling the constitution because somebody may do this or may do that is a no-no. We have these things called laws in this country, Yolanda, and when written well they pretty much say that adults can be treated as adults until proven otherwise, and if they happen to break the law THAT's when the authorities step in. And check out the hispanic birthday-party story before you go weeping that dumbass, sex-starved little voice away about firearms. No woman that is well taken care of by her man goes off screamin' 'bout bad, bad guns.
See? Who needs Kim du Toit?
But seriously, for I am not a fat man masquerading as a piss poor writer who shoots holes in paper then professes an intimate knowledge with such things as self-defense, kudos to the NRA along with the Second Amendment Foundation for stepping in when big brother, aka the loony lefties, had illegally disarmed the very citizens they are sworn to protect. And in all fairness, I should announce...fanfare, trumpets, children throwing rose petals...that I am a member of the National Rifle Association and was wondering if and when they'd finally get around to busting these criminals disguised as police and government officials down to the levels they so rightly deserve.
Mealyworms, anyone?
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