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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Gun Battles in NO. The MSM begins to wake up.

Posted: 9/21/2005 9:57:38 AM EDT

Reuters reports citizens w/AK smoke BGs.

Posted: 9/21/2005 10:02:46 AM EDT

[#1]

Interesting read.

Don't expect it to be told on CNN, though.

Posted: 9/21/2005 10:05:08 AM EDT

[#2]

Wow, finally an AK47 being talked about in good light.

Posted: 9/21/2005 10:09:10 AM EDT

[#3]

it's reposted on msnbc.com

Posted: 9/21/2005 10:16:26 AM EDT

[#4]

See they should kill the importation ban, do it for the safety of our neighborhoods..........

Posted: 9/21/2005 10:16:34 AM EDT

[#5]

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - After the storm came the carjackers and burglars. Then came the gun battles and the chemical explosions that shook the restored Victorians in New Orleans' Algiers Point neighborhood.

"The hurricane was a breeze compared with the crime and terror that followed," said Gregg Harris, a psychotherapist who lives in the battered area.

As life returned to this close-knit neighborhood three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, residents said they hoped their experience could convince political leaders to get serious about the violence and poor services that have long been an unfortunate hallmark of their city.

"I think now it's a wake-up call," Harris said.

After the storm, the neighborhood association had to act as law enforcement and emergency response unit as city services collapsed and the police force was unable to protect them.

Citizens organized armed patrols and checked on the elderly. They slept on their porches with loaded shotguns and bolted awake when intruders stumbled on the aluminum cans they had scattered on the sidewalk.

Gunshots rang out for days, sometimes terrifyingly close.

For Harris, the first warning sign came on Tuesday, the day after the storm, when two young men hit his partner, Vinnie Pervel, over the head and drove off with his Ford van.

"A police car drove up behind me and saw it happening but he didn't do anything," said Pervel, who heads the 1,500-household neighborhood association.

Then residents heard that police vehicles were being carjacked and looters were taking guns and ammunition from nearby stores.

"We thought, 'Perhaps this is going to get really ugly,"' said Gareth Stubbs, a marine surveyor who lives across Pelican Street from Harris and Pervel.

A Texas woman who runs a Web site called Polimom.com served as a link between those who stayed and those who had left. With her help, they stockpiled an arsenal of shotguns, derringer pistols and an old AK-47.

They were put to use the next day.

"Some looters came up and pulled a gun on the wrong group of men," said Harris, who said he did not fire a gun himself and declined to say who else was involved in the battle.

"Two men were shot right there," Harris said, pointing down the street as he watered his rose bushes. "One was shot in the back, the other in the leg, and the third I was told made it a block and a half before he died in the street. I did not go down to see the body."

The next day a nearby stockpile of chemicals exploded, shaking the houses and sending a fireball 300 feet into the sky. The fire burned for another three days, Harris said.

[red"For five days we didn't need FEMA, the Red Cross or the National Guard," Harris said. "The neighborhood took care of itself."

Katrina should be a 9-11 level wake-up call for all defenders of the 2nd Amendment.

Email this article to everyone in your address lists.

Posted: 9/21/2005 10:16:58 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Interesting read.

Don't expect it to be told on CNN, though.

bet it won't be on fox either...

Posted: 9/21/2005 10:17:10 AM EDT

[#7]

Good show! We need more articles like that.

-Ben

Posted: 9/21/2005 10:18:35 AM EDT

[#8]

Just pile up the dead bodies at the entrance to the subdivision as an example to those who may try the same thing. Then let the debris haulers take the garbage away in due time.

Good thing the NO cops didn't come to their neighborhood for gun confiscation. Bet there would have been a lot of flooding accidents!

Posted: 9/21/2005 10:21:03 AM EDT

[#9]

"For five days we didn't need FEMA, the Red Cross or the National Guard," Harris said. "The neighborhood took care of itself."

HERESY!

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