geekWithA.45
Moderator Emeritus
High Planes Drifter:
I think you see my point:
In the one circuit that holds 2A to be an individual right,
In a state that has a strong, individual RKBA guarantee*,
In the complete absence of any lawful power to do so**,
Knowing full well that disarmed citizens faced the imminent danger to life and limb in the form of widespread, criminal lawlessness,
Officials of the City of New Orleans unlawfully ordered the systematic confiscation of personal arms, and such orders were systematically carried out through the vigorous application of the threat of lethal force, in defiance of the protests of the people thus victimized.
THIS NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED, AND YET IT DID.
This was an unprecedented event in the history of our Republic, and it has been swept under the rug.
We have yet to hear a full accounting of these events, and there has been no Congressional inquiry.
Judicial redress came too late, and and even restitutional remedy has still yet to be effected.
Frankly, honest people, under those circumstances would have been fully justified, ethically, morally, and legally in meeting the official abuse of force with force.
That they did not I think is due to any of a number of mitigating circumstances, most notably the lack of global knowledge of what was going on due to the power being out, and the general unwillingness of men of good character to resort to arms in ambiguous circumstances, especially in the face of authority.
If we, the gunerati of America, who are well versed in the underlying topics of rights, powers, and the Lockean basis of our Republic do not come to the concensus that in circumstances of imminent danger and the impossibility of immediate judicial relief and redress, that meeting the official abuse of force, with force is valid, no one will.
* The right of each citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged, but this provision shall not prevent the passage of laws to prohibit the carrying of weapons concealed on the person.
** I stand by my original assertion that there was NO AUTHORITY, even under emergency powers
I think you see my point:
In the one circuit that holds 2A to be an individual right,
In a state that has a strong, individual RKBA guarantee*,
In the complete absence of any lawful power to do so**,
Knowing full well that disarmed citizens faced the imminent danger to life and limb in the form of widespread, criminal lawlessness,
Officials of the City of New Orleans unlawfully ordered the systematic confiscation of personal arms, and such orders were systematically carried out through the vigorous application of the threat of lethal force, in defiance of the protests of the people thus victimized.
THIS NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED, AND YET IT DID.
This was an unprecedented event in the history of our Republic, and it has been swept under the rug.
We have yet to hear a full accounting of these events, and there has been no Congressional inquiry.
Judicial redress came too late, and and even restitutional remedy has still yet to be effected.
Frankly, honest people, under those circumstances would have been fully justified, ethically, morally, and legally in meeting the official abuse of force with force.
That they did not I think is due to any of a number of mitigating circumstances, most notably the lack of global knowledge of what was going on due to the power being out, and the general unwillingness of men of good character to resort to arms in ambiguous circumstances, especially in the face of authority.
If we, the gunerati of America, who are well versed in the underlying topics of rights, powers, and the Lockean basis of our Republic do not come to the concensus that in circumstances of imminent danger and the impossibility of immediate judicial relief and redress, that meeting the official abuse of force, with force is valid, no one will.
* The right of each citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged, but this provision shall not prevent the passage of laws to prohibit the carrying of weapons concealed on the person.
** I stand by my original assertion that there was NO AUTHORITY, even under emergency powers