Sipsey Street Irregulars: A Decade Later, Remember New Orleans … Gun Confiscation Can (And Has) Happened In America

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

A Decade Later, Remember New Orleans … Gun Confiscation Can (And Has) Happened In America

Despite their inability to cope with the resulting mayhem, several days after the storm passed New Orleans officials ordered the confiscation of lawfully-owned firearms from city residents. In a September 8, 2005 article, the New York Times described the scene, stating, “Local police officers began confiscating weapons from civilians in preparation for a forced evacuation of the last holdouts still living here… Police officers and federal law enforcement agents scoured the city carrying assault rifles seeking residents who have holed up to avoid forcible eviction.” As reported by the Washington Post, New Orleans Superintendent P. Edwin Compass made clear, “No one will be able to be armed,” and, “Guns will be taken. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns.”

No more free Wacos. No more free Katrinas, either.

3 comments:

Unknown said...: They disarmed Grandma and old men in a boat. I do not think one gang banger was disarmed though.; August 25, 2015 at 12:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Regarding the Bikers, they already got another free Waco. But then, I suppose it ain't over yet (as the hiding of info continues unabated still, or is it again?). Failing to get the race war agitated to the shooting level, the Obamabots tried to directly light one off either between bikers themselves or between civilians and cops. They thought they had a sure thing in Waco. Think about it Mike, they come strong nationally with "lost and stolen" legislation just as "tragic boating accidents" become daily part of the American lexicon. Like it or not, "no more free wacos" bunches up their panties exactly the same way.

I sure won't shill for criminal bikers or their gangs, but what happened there was a set up of one variety or another. I believe it was plain old assasination, and political at that, and they are indeed getting it for free. But then, that is always how the police state has been expanded isn't it?! Pretend the augmenting of force is meant for the "other" only ones.... The criminals. That is how you get a stupid and scared public to buy into stripping away rights - make the citizenry think it is really to protect them from the criminals.

Bundy Ranch was a disaster for gubmint. Gunwalker was too. Something HAD to be done and it was. Obama is proving he is "winning" against the three percent - by getting away with another Waco. Cept he don't realize that he is Charlie sheen "winning".

What I hope people finally learn is that while it is said that registration leads to confiscation - the real drama exists elsewhere - that confiscation of guns translates to ending lives. I submit that we need to be more blunt and more straightforward. Like this - when you let them take your guns, you are already dead (even if you don't realize it) but worse yet, and more troubling, is that so is your posterity (especially posterity not even yet born). Don't believe it? See Chicago, Baltimore or DC.; August 25, 2015 at 1:08 PM
Longbow said...: Said gun confiscation was executed by those "pro second amendment" types in Law Imposement, who are such good guys that they would never do such a thing... until ordered to do it.

They did it and they would do it again. Do you think the "few bad apples" who went out and grabbed guns from peaceful people, were shunned by their co-workers as a "few bad apples"? The cop who didn't actually do the deed will tell you with a strait face, "Well, I never took anybody's guns.", while sitting next to and protecting the man who did. He feels very good about it too.

The discussion will eventually devolve into, "Well, cops do more good on ballance than bad. We should look at the whole picture." There was a saying a while back, when such things were still said, "Ya build a thousand bridges and they'll never call you an engineer... but ya suck one cock..!"; August 26, 2015 at 10:19 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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