{"id":2,"date":"2005-09-09T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjhinton.net\/mjh\/wp\/?p=2"},"modified":"2005-09-09T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T23:22:14","slug":"what-does-the-nra-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/what-does-the-nra-think\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does the NRA Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nclass=\"mine\">Isn’t this the NRA’s worst nightmare? mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Police Begin Seizing Guns of Civilians – New York Times<\/a> By ALEX BERENSON and JOHN M. BRODER<\/p>\n

Local police officers began confiscating weapons from civilians<\/strong> in preparation for a forced evacuation of the last <\/p>\n

holdouts still living here, as President Bush steeled the nation for the grisly scenes of recovering the dead that will unfold in coming <\/p>\n

days.<\/p>\n

Police officers and federal law enforcement agents scoured the city carrying assault rifles seeking residents who have holed <\/p>\n

up to avoid forcible eviction, as well as those who are still considering evacuating voluntarily to escape the city’s putrid waters. <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Mr. Compass, the police superintendent, said that after a week of near anarchy in the city, no civilians in New <\/p>\n

Orleans will be allowed to carry pistols, shotguns, or other firearms of any kind. “Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons,” he <\/p>\n

said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That order apparently does not apply to the hundreds of security guards whom businesses and some wealthy <\/p>\n

individuals have hired to protect their property. The guards, who are civilians working for private security firms like Blackwater, are <\/p>\n

openly carrying M-16s and other assault rifles.<\/p>\n

Mr. Compass said that he was aware of the private guards but that the police had <\/p>\n

no plans to make them give up their weapons.<\/p>\n

Katrina’s Silver Lining – New <\/p>\n

York Times<\/a> By DAVID BROOKS<\/p>\n

There may be local resistance to the new arrivals – in Baton Rouge there were three-<\/p>\n

hour lines<\/em> at gun shops as locals armed themselves against the hurricane victims moving to their area<\/strong> – but if there has <\/p>\n

ever been a moment when people may open their hearts, this is it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isn’t this the NRA’s worst nightmare? mjh Police Begin Seizing Guns of Civilians – New York Times By ALEX BERENSON and JOHN M. BRODER Local police officers began confiscating weapons from civilians in preparation for a forced evacuation of the last holdouts still living here, as President Bush steeled the nation for the grisly scenes … Continue reading What Does the NRA Think?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}