Before getting to the serious stuff, the Saints won last night. First story below. There’s also a bit of local breaking-news. And then it goes rapidly downhill.
The main story is the way that that P. Edwin Compass III, the superintendent of police in New Orleans, has ordered the confiscation of all firearms in New Orleans. First the government doesn’t help people in the hurricane-ravaged city, and then it goes door to door, taking away the protection from the law-abiding, leaving the only guns in the hands of the looters and thugs who have experience dodging police. I’d like to be able to say I’m surprised, but I’m not really. Sick to my stomach, yes. Surprised? No.
- The Saints Hang On To Regain Series Lead, 5-4. The Saints’ pitchers, Gaal, Pike, and Hammonds pitched a pretty good game all around, but it was a 5-4 nailbiter, and the Saints’ insurance run in the top of the 9th ended up being the difference as Hammonds’ second inning of work was a little rocky, due in part to a T. Brown error.
- Now Council member took bribes, affidavit alleges. Things are not looking good for Dean Zimmerman. [strib]
- A cartoon that doesn’t lighten my mood: TSHTF: Boston in 1774, New Orleans in 2005. I don’t see a lot of difference. [endwar]
- This week’s Musings of The GeekWithA.45 has a lot more on the New Orleans gun confiscations. Keep scrolling and getting angrier. [endwar]
- They show the National Guard (Oklahoma, as well as other states, I think) in this ABC Video (codec), including one young guardsman who was asked
you would shoot an American?
and repliedYes.
The story goes on about how disturbing this is to these guys, but I should hope it would be disturbing to not uphold the Constitution. - It’s pretty apparent to me that the New Orleans Gun Confiscation is Blatantly Illegal, and one of the hopes that “gun nuts” had was that the National Guard would refuse to enforce such a blatantly illegal order. That hope seems to have been overly optimistic.
- Kim Interrupt[s] This Hiatus to fume about the confiscations. [kim]
- Meanwhile, the NRA is
monitoring this situation very closely.
The GOA is expressing outrage, but on their website, the entire news about the situation is a plea to sign up for membership. The JPFO has the strongest statement, but I don’t know what they can do, either. [war on guns] - Pawpaw’s response to Gun Confiscation? 1–get their names. 2–comply and keep yourself safe. 3–file a civil rights violation suit in Federal Court, and sue the bastards for everything they’ve got.
- It’s been reported that Ashton O’Dwyer, who was refusing to leave in this CNN.com Video has since been arrested. More details when I hear them, but he appears to be a lawyer with Lemle & Kelleher, L.L.P., and I hope he sues the pants off whoever arrested him.
- But until those lawsuits work their way through the system, there’s a problem. As Lew Rockwell points out:
[people in the Pentagon] are delighted with the lack of opposition to the gun confiscation now going on in NO.
Very few people seem to be shouting Molon Labe! which has to be encouraging if you think you might want to grab all the guns. [endwar]