> 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.
And thanks to the 11th Amendment, no real remedy exists for the grandmother given the quiet complicity of the Louisiana government. Guy Smith Author, Gun Facts [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.GunFacts.info _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
