Citizens Still Screwed and Crime Down in 2007

In the January issue of American Hunter page 60 -

. . . New Orleans has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association. A permanent injunction has been issued against the city, as well as against Mayor Ray Nagin and current Police Chief Warren Riley.

The city admitted the gun confiscations carried out by Nagin and Riley were unconstitutional and illegal.

New Oeleans agreed to:

Cease and desist confiscating . . .

Make an agressive attempt to return any and all firearms . . .

Post on the city website within one month of the settlement the procedure for the return of confiscated firearms.

Mail city notices . . . to all individuals identified on the property tags . . .

Now all of this is well and good, but it did take years for the city to finally come clean, assuming they actually have. In that time, citizens were left without their lawfully owned property and most likely defenseless against thugs. So what about their compensation? What about punishment for those that broke the law? Once again the so-called elite are not held to the same standards. Once again the citizen gets screwed by the government thugs.

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Then on page 61 -

The FBI crime report for 2007 . . . violent crime rate . . . near a 30-year low. The nations murder rate is near a 40-year low. Meanwhile, the number of privately owned guns in the United States is at an all-time high . . .

In 2007, 32 percent of murders were committed without firearms of any sort - . . . Rifles and shotguns (semi-automatic and otherwisw) accounted for three percent each and, typically, guns classed as "assault weapons" have accounted for about one percent.

So when the antis want to reduce private ownership of guns, any guns, it's not about safety or crime reduction. It's all about fear, their fear of not being able to control us.

Yeah this magazine is bound to be biased, but so what? They'll surely print facts that support the pro-gun position, but I've never known them to be dishonest. I doubt the anti-gun publications would know honesty if it jumped up and bit them in the butt.