Chief Seeks to Ban Assault Weapons in New Orleans

[Bartholomew Roberts]

“Speaking to some of their high ranking officials there, the solvability rate of their victims is much better than it is here because their victims are being shot once or twice with a handgun, our victims are being shot ten or twelve times with an assault rifle,” he said.

So you have six times the forensic evidence that they have and their solvability rate is better? Must be the firearm

 

[230RN]

takhtakaal

Gotta love how she's definitely willing to do something based on the mere suggestion that 51% of one given group might possibly be of a mind to support such an action. What about the rest of us?

Coronach

It might help, won't cost anything, and it doesn't hurt anyone besides a bunch of kooky gun nuts that won't vote for us anyway. Or, as Atticus said, it's political low hanging fruit.

See my sig line.

 

[RustyHammer]

LSUFan1971 ... I sure hope you're right!

 

[TCB in TN]

I would love to get the good captain to sit down with a list of EVERY individual convicted of a shooting in LA for say the last 5 years. We can sort them by last name A-Z and then go through them one at a time. If they performed their crime with an "assault weapon" of any kind then we put a mark in his column. If they were a previously convicted felon then we put a mark in my column. Even at a dollar a pc. I feel pretty confident that I would make a bundle off the captain. Keeping criminals BEHIND bars will have a far greater impact on shootings (as well as all other violent crimes) than ANY weapons ban ever will. Only a complete idiot would argue other wise.