"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 ever

"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".