open4years
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I'm sure all of you know what happened in New Orleans during the hurricane that almost wiped out the city. The chief of police declared that only LE would have guns and he ordered his officers to confiscate all firearms from citizens. This meant that the remaining citizens were unable to protect themselves, their family and their property as the bad guys kept their guns.
Many officers threw the guns to the ground and stomped on them. Many threw them into a pond or river. Many, if the gun was nice, put it on their person to keep for themselves. The few guns that actually made it to storage, ended up severely rusted. (Did you see the pictures in the NRA magazine?) Few citizens got their guns back and even fewer got them back in the condition they were in prior to the seizure.
One elderly woman was handing her revolver to the police and was brutally slammed into a wall even though she had the cylinder hanging out of the revolver. She supposedly pointed this obviously empty gun at police while handing it to them. This was captured on TV.
I've often wondered how I would have responded when they knocked on my door (or busted through my door) to seize my guns. I can't see myself shooting LE, yet I would have resisted in some manner. Maybe just hiding my guns throughout the house making it difficult for them to find them. BUT they probably would have torn my house apart to find them. Many of the officers acted wrongly when carrying out this order.
What would you have done?
open4years
I'm sure all of you know what happened in New Orleans during the hurricane that almost wiped out the city. The chief of police declared that only LE would have guns and he ordered his officers to confiscate all firearms from citizens. This meant that the remaining citizens were unable to protect themselves, their family and their property as the bad guys kept their guns.
Many officers threw the guns to the ground and stomped on them. Many threw them into a pond or river. Many, if the gun was nice, put it on their person to keep for themselves. The few guns that actually made it to storage, ended up severely rusted. (Did you see the pictures in the NRA magazine?) Few citizens got their guns back and even fewer got them back in the condition they were in prior to the seizure.
One elderly woman was handing her revolver to the police and was brutally slammed into a wall even though she had the cylinder hanging out of the revolver. She supposedly pointed this obviously empty gun at police while handing it to them. This was captured on TV.
I've often wondered how I would have responded when they knocked on my door (or busted through my door) to seize my guns. I can't see myself shooting LE, yet I would have resisted in some manner. Maybe just hiding my guns throughout the house making it difficult for them to find them. BUT they probably would have torn my house apart to find them. Many of the officers acted wrongly when carrying out this order.
What would you have done?
open4years