The New Orleans gun confiscation was one of the top three outrages in the recent history of the United States, the other two being when "The Government" slaughtered its own citizens at Waco, TX and Ruby Ridge, ID.
Notice a pattern here? All three incidents involved
people with guns that just
wanted to be left alone. I'm not sure which "The Government" hates more - people who have guns, or people who just want to be left alone.
In the case of the NO gun snatch, let's look at an average guy - let's say he has a small collection of 10 production (non-custom) handguns. Depending on what he has and with handgun prices of $500 to $800 per gun, his collection is worth between $5000 and $8000.
So "The Government" decides to "take all the guns," as the socialist police chief of NO arbitrairly decided. "The Government" comes to this guy's house, takes his guns throws them into the bed of a truck with hundreds of other guns - beating them all to p1$$, cutting their value by half (or more) and the guy never sees his beat to p1$$ guns again. That is the essence of what happened.
This gives rise to questions, to wit-
1: Why did "The Government" feel the need to disarm people who were doing nothing more than sitting in the remains of their homes with their guns in order to repel looters?
2: How many
home owners sitting in the remains of their homes fired on police/fire/emergency personnel
before the gun snatch? [My guess is zero.]
3: Why did "The Government" not disarm the looters and thugs roaming the streets instead?
4: Where the "f" was the citizen's right to due process?
5: A.) By what mechanism and justification did "The Government" suspend the Bill of Rights in NO?
B.) Was it simply on the say-so of the Police Chief who
did not have such authority?
6: How can "The Government" do this to a supposed free people when martial law
HAD NOT been declared?
7: Exactly how and when will the citizens who had their guns stolen by "The Government" be reimbursed for the cost of their stolen/destroyed property?
8: A.) Since the NO gun snatch was a "success" in the eyes of "The Government," is it now considered standard procedure in emergency situations?
B.) If a tornado, earthquake or blizzard strikes my community, is "The Government" going to come around and
try to take
my guns?
The NO gun snatch amounts to nothing less than the rape of liberty and an undeniable show of the contempt that petty bureaucrats and "The Government" have for the rights guaranteed to We The People by the Bill of Rights.
The law abiding citizens of NO should have never been put in the situation thery were forced into, which was
"Give us your guns or we will kill you and take them from you." That is
exactly the choice "The Government" forced upon them.
Under those circumstances, it is a damn shame that "The Government's" gun snatching thugs were not shot dead by the dozens by those they sought to disarm - just like The Founders shot dead the Crown's thugs that were sent to disarm them.
We The People want answers!!
