New Orleans Police Chief Suggests Gun Ban
Pity New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley. When it comes to firearms, Chief Riley (along with his boss, Mayor Ray Nagin) just doesn’t get it.
As you’ll recall, Nagin and Riley were major players in the travesty that occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. At that time, the dynamic duo’s idea of maintaining order and public “safety” was to instruct police and other law enforcement officers to confiscate lawfully- owned firearms from the city’s citizens, stripping them of their means of self-defense at precisely their time of greatest peril.
Last month, we reported on a widely circulated picture of the beleaguered Nagin looking gleeful and appearing to point an AR-15-type rifle directly at Chief Riley while Riley held a similar firearm. We all know that the number one rule of gun safety is to always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction, and the two anti-gun officials paid a public relations price for their safety indiscretion.
Well, this week Riley is back in the news; this time for suggesting in an interview on local radio station WWL, that, “An assault weapons ban in New Orleans would make crime fighting easier…”
Before espousing the need for yet another law that has been proven ineffective, Riley should consider that the City of New Orleans has already lost two highly questionable firearm cases in court, and there are already more than enough laws on the books to prosecute criminals who illegally possess firearms. He should also consider the fact that any proposal such as that discussed in the interview would violate his state’s firearms preemption law.
(If you’ve forgotten how the Second Amendment was trampled upon following Hurricane Katrina, or if you have friends or family members who still naively believe “it can’t happen here,” please see NRA’s compelling video on the subject by clicking here.)
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It looks as if Louisiana at the level of New Orleans is at it again with a new proposed HR41 or 51 to be corrected. that will ban guns from areas that you will be in at times in your vehicle and will be illegal to have a weapon. We need to stop this heavy Left wing aggressive attack on guns that people carry legal and destroy the guns of the criminal not those of us who would lay their life down to protect someone else as I did to keep the Country strong and as I see it now The USA has leaned very rapid to the left, liberal and have dumbed down America so bad that recovery may not be there without the strong voice of those that sit around and do nothing.
Thanks for standing tall and please call Coast to Coast AM voice to the masses DON’T TAKE THE GUNS AWAY FROM THE LEGAL RIGHT TOO BEAR ARMS and remember what T. Roosevelt stated 1907 ” To be and American and something else is not and American and we have but one Flag the American Flag and one language English period” we have come 180 degrees from that position.
From Dennis (Danny Alan) Northcutt
Nominated Country music artist of the year.
Criminals will always find a way to obtain guns no matter what the law says or what the cirsumstances are. If guns are banned, then the law abiding citizen will obey that law and not posess a firearm. This will leave the citizens that obey the law at the mercy of the criminal. I believe that all citizens have a right to defend their own life and property. The firearm is by far the most effective means of self defense available. In addtion, gun ownership may actually save lives. I believe that a criminal will be less likely to engage in an attack against a person that is known to be armed for fear of being killed.