November 17, 2016, 07:33 AM | #1 | |
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November 17, 2016, 08:59 AM | #2 | ||
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I was a deputy sheriff in the area at the time. The gun confiscation direction came from the mayor and police chief of New Orleans.
Never heard of "Marshall Law", I'm assuming you mean "martial law". Who do you believe placed the city under martial law? It was declared a disaster area, but there is no such thing as "martial law" in Louisiana. There were half-a**ed military and law enforcement yahoos "helping out" from all over the country at the time pretty much doing what they wanted to. Might be a good time to check with your friend and get your facts straight. https://www.thetrace.org/2015/08/nra...-confiscation/ Quote:
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November 17, 2016, 07:30 PM | #3 |
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I remember the Feds struggling to pluck people off of roofs and highway overpasses. And I remember a poor federal response that followed an even worse state government response. But the government did succeed in confiscating a whole bunch of buses that could have helped with evacuation.
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November 17, 2016, 07:31 PM | #4 |
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Typically, when we close threads, we do so for a reason. Usually it's because we see no value in continuing the discussion. I'm about to close this one, for a couple of reasons.
(1) Copying something from a closed thread in order to respond to it isn't a very good idea. If we had wanted the discussion to continue, we would have left the thread open. (2) Hurricane Katrina and the events that followed took place over 10 years ago. This horse is really most sincerely dead, stinking and rotten and gone to its eternal reward. Continuing to flog it will only make a nasty mess which staff would prefer not to have to clean up. We always get stuck with the really icky jobs around here.
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