On May 10, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Will Brink wrote:
there are those people out there who make statements such as
"people worried about their guns being confiscated in the US are
being paranoid, it will never happen." Have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4
Comments? Could a class action not be had by the many gun owners
who were the victims of this confiscation? Are there pending
lawsuits you are aware of?
Class actions are notorious wastes of time and money for everybody
but the trial lawyers. The NRA is involved in a continuing lawsuit
since March 1 of last year against Mayor Nagin and the city of New
Orleans on this subject. So far the mayor has been exposed as a liar
(he originally claimed he had no confiscated guns, then admitted he
did), found in contempt of court (possibly twice) for failure to
provide court-ordered documents and accounting, and is still not off
the hook.
One intriguing aspect about this operation is that the officers who
body-slammed this grandmother were California Highway Patrol --
officers from a state with a vastly different firearms culture,
normally with absolutely no jurisdiction in Louisiana. It brings to
mind the old Chinese tactic of having each province garrisoned by
troops from other, faraway provinces, in order to minimize the
prospect of an oppressive order being resisted by the troops for
reasons of sympathy or communal sentiment.
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