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Earthquake, flood, hurricane, severe blizzard, fire, riots, political unrest, lynching, epidemic disease, while all unlikely, happen with regularity in t

Earthquake, flood, hurricane, severe blizzard, fire, riots, political unrest, lynching, epidemic disease, while all unlikely, happen with regularity in the USA. We are lucky we don't need to deal with famine here, but in the rest of the world it is a real threat. 1. Do you know police shot and killed unarmed people at Danziger Bridge during Hurricane Katrina? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Bridge_shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Bridge_shootings 2. Have you read how, during Katrina, the New Orleans police and federal agents disarmed people illegally, leaving them unprotected? http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/us/nationalspecial/police-begin-seizing-guns-of-civilians.html# http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/us/nationalspecial/police-... 3. Google police and national guard disarm citizens during katrina and read about what happened - I dare you. Don't you have armed police/military who, while a blessing in some instances, are in others a curse?

pjc50 11y ago
Don't you have armed police/military who, while a blessing in some instances, are in others a curse? Occasionally. This is why I keep bringing up Northern Ireland. However that is a situation in which armed civilians fought back against having their civil rights violated by the state, resulting in a >30 year civil war and bombing campaign. I don't even understand what you're saying should have happened instead in New Orleans - should people have been shooting back? Surely the right answer is everyone being less trigger happy?
- giardini 11y ago
  "I don't even understand what you're saying should have happened instead in New Orleans - should people have been shooting back? Surely the right answer is everyone being less trigger happy?" The police, federal officers and National Guard should not have confiscated weapons. Then people could have protected themselves as was their right. Note that there was no evidence of "everyone being trigger happy".

pjc50 11y ago

Don't you have armed police/military who, while a blessing in some instances, are in others a curse? Occasionally. This is why I keep bringing up Northern Ireland. However that is a situation in which armed civilians fought back against having their civil rights violated by the state, resulting in a >30 year civil war and bombing campaign. I don't even understand what you're saying should have happened instead in New Orleans - should people have been shooting back? Surely the right answer is everyone being less trigger happy?

giardini 11y ago
"I don't even understand what you're saying should have happened instead in New Orleans - should people have been shooting back? Surely the right answer is everyone being less trigger happy?" The police, federal officers and National Guard should not have confiscated weapons. Then people could have protected themselves as was their right. Note that there was no evidence of "everyone being trigger happy".