FEMA Supports Gun Confiscations after Kansas Tornado

[freakazoid]

Thanks for the link, This makes me so happy, Now if I only had a handgun, Some day... some day.
On Greensburg. If they are returning the firearms I that is a good thing. What I don't like is the turning away volunteers and the huge amount of cops that was sent in.

 

[Skibane]

I see a statement from the NRA saying that they are investigating reports of firearms confiscation, and I see a newspaper account blaming the NRA for "overreacting".

So, I have to ask: Who is really overreacting here?

 

[never_retreat]

Run for your lives fema is comming

 

[AntiqueCollector]

Zoogster - that may not have anything to do with firearms. That may simply be they're worried about people getting injured while digging around what remains of their house, say on a piece of glass, broken wood, metal, etc.

It's not the government's job to protect people from themselves and their own decisions. If I want to dig through my rubble, I will. Likewise, if I hurt myself, it's not the government's fault, and I wouldn't expect them to "come to the rescue" if something happens to me when I knowingly go to a dangerous area.

 

[Crunker1337]

State-sponsored looting of devices that are both vital to the protection of life and Constitutionally protected. Disgusting.

 

[Group9]

All of these posts just keep reminding me of how hard it is for people who have ever been in a true disaster to picture how bad it can be after one. It's hard for people who have never experienced it to realize what it looks like to go into a neighborhood you knew by heart, and that you now can't even find your own lot in (your lot being all that is left except for debris everywhere).

We picked up a ton of guns in Katrina that we found lying in the road, in trees, and in the mud. We kept some of them for a whole year waiting for someone to come claim them before we destroyed them. There were just too many to start doing tracings on (and most were so rusty from the salt water that it would have taken acid washing to find them), and even if we had, I know there would be some nut in here complaining that doing the tracing to find out who the gun belonged to would be a gross violation of the owner's rights and that we were jack booted thugs for doing it.

Teddy Roosevelt sure had it right with "The Arena".

 

[Chui]

All I can say is that you'd better have a laminated list of the weapons that you own and keep it in one of your "bug out" backpacks and on your person in the time of a disaster.

This is no guarantee as I don't think an "undocumented" Galil, FAL or HK91 would make it's way back to the station to be documented. Well, in a large metro area I highly doubt it.

 

[hunttheevil]

Fortunately, living in a coastal community we have some warning prior to a hurricane and have a specific list for bugout. If I was in tornado alley I would have a more rigid gunsafe, and would hope it would withstand bouncing over the terrain. Speaking of gunsafe's in this situation, how many of you have thought about permanent marking basic contact information on the outside of the safe for these type incident's?

 

[tulsamal]

The total number of guns collected was 349.

So only one family's guns were scattered?

G

 

[mons meg]

So only one family's guns were scattered?

*SNORT*

 

[publius]

Interesting editing and stuff going on here.

The Reason blog partially quotes a very left-wing blog on guns, which is a bit strange in the first place.

But the next two sentences were left out of the quotation. Here's the quote with those included:

Of the over 350 firearms confiscated by police immediately after the storm, only a third have been returned to their owners. FEMA and the police have systematically disarmed the local population, leaving the firepower squarely in control of the state.

Later in the day we traveled with an Americorps volunteer that turned out to be the sister of one of the members of the Lawrence anti-capitalist movement.

Later on it says this:

It should be obvious to most by now, that the federal, state, and local governments that deal with disasters of this magnitude are not interested in helping the poor or working people that are really impacted. Only through class solidarity from other working people and working together with neighbors and community members will the people of Greensburg be able to survive and rebuild.

Class solidarity from other working people? What century is this again?

The whole thing seems like lots of noise about nothing if all they're doing is picking up guns which are laying around in the debris. "Only" 1/3 have been returned? That sounds like they're doing a pretty good job, considering the mess to be sorted out.

Talking about picking up guns which are laying around unprotected and using terms like "confiscation" and "disarmed the local populace" just makes gun supporters look like kooks. If a cop walks by a gun sitting on the street, he should pick it up and try to get it to the owner.

It kind of looks to me like the lefty blogger was planting a little bait, to see if someone on the right would pick it up, and they did.

 

[geekWithA.45]

Wasn't the root report the Reason guy is basing his article deemed "not credible" like two weeks ago?

350 is a number much more consistent with rounding up abandoned and unsecured guns than forcible confiscation.

Dad always told me, "take the unverified claims of the anarchic left with boulders of salt"