Communities that opened arms are now bearing arms

Houston Chronicle ^ | 9/6/05 | LISA FALKENBERG

[Bigh4u2]

I pointed out in post #34 where the 'rumors' started!


"New Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass"

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

MSM to blame, 24 and 7 since day one, the MSM has stoked people's worst fears of a complete breakdown of civil order across a broad swath of southern Louisiana.

[Bigh4u2]

The article doesn't say!


http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_Orleans_sharply_increases_after_Hurricane_Katrina


Probably Vegas!

[MarineDad]

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

[george wythe]

Rumors of rapes, robberies and other crimes spiking with the influx of New Orleans hurricane evacuees have incited a run on guns at stores across Cajun Country.

I could be rumors, but I suspect that a crime wave will follow the evacuees' wave.

People who shoot at rescue workers usually bite the hand that feeds them.

[Bigh4u2]

LOL!

[Safetgiver]

Re your #9, isn't that what Lt. general Augustus said about the Zulu?

[listenhillary]

Manic Media unintended consequences bump

[You Dirty Rats]

An armed society is a polite society.

Like Somalia.

[LibTeeth]

Re: "An armed society is a polite society. Like Somalia."

Or Switzerland. Perhaps the emphasis in the quote should be on the word "society" as a synonym for "community", rather than on "armed". The disorder in New Orleans is as much a result of a lack of community, common to most urban areas, as it is anything else such as poverty, etc. Along with the concept of community comes the concept of shame. Wherever shame is diminished, so is the glue of community.