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For some New Orleanians, the city's unchecked culture of violence is so regular and consistent that dead bodies and homicides must compete with arguably lesser stories for 'top news' status. However, the city's latest crime headlines are attention grabbing even by New Orleans' bloody standards. . . . Man murdered in Central City early ThursdaySecurity guard beaten by McDonough studentCrime puts Marigny residents on edge20-year-old dies in hail of bullets in Mid-City WednesdayWith fewer people murder rate is higher Is killing in self-defense justified? Witnesses say Guardsman acted in self-defenseShooting in Irish Channel leaves man dead19-year-old killed in Algiers TuesdayAlleged...

<p>Hours before New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass announced his resignation, Tony relayed some hot information he had heard from his Capitol Hill sources. It regarded an FBI investigation currently under way.</p> <p>You can go to the source above and listen to that segment of his radio show.</p>

BELLEVUE, WA – Following low-key inquiries that were met with stony silence and official indifference, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today is calling for a federal investigation into reports of gun seizures from law-abiding New Orleans residents, and is demanding that officials there immediately account for all confiscated firearms. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb is also demanding that New Orleans police officials immediately stop the seizures, disclose where those firearms are being kept, how they are secured, the type and number of firearms involved, and how those guns will be promptly returned to their...