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Skriven 2005-09-21 10:11:00 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
  Kommentar till text 12382 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
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 MV>>>> I didn't see much of the New Orleans disaster as I was on holiday.
 MV>>>> But I did see a few shots on German television. One image is burned
 MV>>>> into my retina: that of soldiers entering houses with assault
 MV>>>> rifles at the ready! It looked more like an invasion than a rescue
 MV>>>> mission....

 >>> When the "rescuees" are shooting, what is one to do?

 MvdV>> Why were they shooting in the first place?

 > Apparently to protect their personal property from looters.

They mistook people in US army iniforms for looters? Yeah right...

 MvdV>> One report I heard is that looters lifted all the handguns from
 MvdV>> Sears.

 > Not very likely.

Denial isn't a river in Egypt.

 MvdV>> My first thought was: that could not have happened if those weapons
 MvdV>> were not there to begin with. Over here you can not buy guns in a
 MvdV>> supermarket.

 > First of all; Sears isn't a supermarket for firearms. In fact,
 > I don't recall seeing any firearms in a Sears store for quite some
 > time.

When was the last time you were in New Orlaens?

 > But, before you open your mouth with erroneous information; The
 > Federal gun laws in the US require each and every Federally
 > Licensed Gun Dealer to lock up his firearm inventory before closing.

And of course the looters respected the locks and made no attempt to forcibly
enter....

 > I would assume that happened at every gun store in NO, before
 > anyone evacuated.

ASS u me.

 > The requirements for the safes that they are to be held in are
 > such that no oridinary person could open them.

Under normal curcimstances.

That doesn't hold when you can take as much time as you need and ans make as
much noise as you want and no gueard or policeman comes to disturb you because
they all have left.

 > It would take a professional burgler or safe
 > cracker to do so.

To complete it before the police arrives to stop you. No factor is there is no
police any more.

 MvdV>> An armed society is a polite society? Didn't look that way...

 > It's true in Texas. Very friendly people here.

The people in Belgium are friendlt too. And they are not armed.

 > Of course, the 'will issue concealed carry permits' law
 > didn't have anything to do with that. They were friendly
 > before that law was passed.

So no causal relationship bewteen politeness and being armed.

 > But, you don't see many altercations on the freeways
 > like I've seen in California,

I have never ever seen a freeway altercation in my life. Of course I never was
in the USA...

 > What we have in NO are people who havn't seen any LEOs for
 > quite a few days and who knows what they were thinking when
 > they shot at authoritys.

Whatever the reasons, those pictures do not make a good impression on the rest
off the world.

Cheers, Michiel

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