Sangamon
County Rifle Association
Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights
Springfield, Illinois
Right Reason on Second Amendment Rights
Springfield, Illinois
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 Katrina Revisited by Tom Shafer 8/7/06 SCRA Meeting September 2006 GunNews One year ago this month Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. A lot has happened since Katrina hit New Orleans. It started out with the FEMA response vilified by the national media, some of it accurately and some inaccurately. FEMA Director Brown was forced to resign in shame. When he was a Bush appointee he was hated and forced to resign in disgrace. Now he has turned into a Bush critic and he's back on the national news, and people who don't like Bush think Brown is a great guy. As long as he's bashing Bush they love him. Louisiana Governor Blanco, along with FEMA and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin were criticized for their response. Governor Blanco just signed a piece of legislation that forbids local police agencies from confiscating firearms during natural disasters. A group of police acting in panic, after a hurricane in a major city with a population of over a million people, confiscated guns. It quickly came out in the national media and the whole country blew up about it and said this is absolutely wrong. Pro-gun groups filed lawsuits to get it overturned and a federal judgee immediately agreed and ordered return of all the confiscated firearms. New Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass, who ordered the confiscations, denied they had ever taken place. When it became a political hot potato and was obviously going to be overturned, Chief Compass resigned. The NRA has a big ongoing campaign right now to document and show some of those confiscations that happened in New Orleans after Katrina. They're using it for a big pro-gun campaign at the national level. This Disaster Recovery and Personal Protection Act says, in effect, never again will local officials say nobody can own firearms! During the height of the disaster, one-third of the police force quit. Of those third, approximately 390 police officers, a third of them have been fired and a third of them are asking for their jobs back and, a third of them are denying they ever quit. They are saying, "We were here, you just couldn't communicate with us." So the city is going through the civil service ranks to see who they need to get rid of, police officers who quit, right when they were needed the most. Eddie Compass, who said nobody is going to own a firearm, not if you're out on the street with it, or if we find them we'll take them from you and they did so. Eddie Compass has resigned in disgrace. All of a sudden you just never heard from him again. The media just quit covering him. Mayor Ray Nagin recently called out the National Guard to control crime because there's a crime explosion in New Orleans right now from a combination of things, gang takeovers, a third of the police force has quit, chaos because it takes a long time to replace officers when a third of your force quits. Gang members and criminals coming back are taking advantage of that and just recently they had a shooting where six people were murdered. From the Capitol Index Return to SCRA Home Page |