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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nra ... -1.1264387NRA chief LaPierre claims 'looters ran wild in south Brooklyn' after Sandy, but Coney Island residents say he is full of it
In Wayne’s world, “looters ran wild in south Brooklyn” and the National Guard was nowhere to be found after Hurricane Sandy struck the city. That is the “hellish world” that fear-mongering NRA chief Wayne LaPierre has conjured up in a column to counter the growing demand for gun control.
“There was no food, water, or electricity,” LaPierre wrote in an essay Wednesday for The Daily Caller, a conservative website. “And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.”
LaPierre also made the preposterous claim that Mayor Bloomberg “refused to allow the National Guard into the city to restore civil order because Guardsmen carry guns!”
Never mind that NYPD stats showed that serious crime plunged in the aftermath of Sandy or that looting in Coney Island was largely limited to a few stores including a Key Food supermarket where 11 people were arrested for making off with food, water, toilet paper and diapers.
Also never mind that armed National Guardsmen were patrolling south Brooklyn and actively helping in rescue and recovery after the storm.
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/14/scarboro ... overtones/Scarborough: Wayne LaPierre op-ed is ‘so laced with racial overtones’
I don’t know where to start…yeah, it’s responsible to own a gun; it’s responsible to protect your family; it’s responsible to have a handgun in your house; it’s responsible to have a shotgun; it’s responsible to have a hunting rifle, but Wayne LaPierre is suggesting if you are against Americans being able to own assault weapons with 30-round, high-capacity magazines…and he said, Hispanic drug gangs are coming to America. And those terrible people in Brooklyn. Don’t go out after dark. I mean, this is so laced with racial overtones…the Republican Party, if they were smart, their leaders today would condemn it, but they’re not smart; they’re scared, and if they keep running scared they’re going to lose more votes, they’re going to get hammered in future elections if they allow this clown to continue to lead them around by their nose. They’re shameful; they need to be leaders.
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on that note wrote: If they did or did not is not the point, they could and it is not unreasonable or unprecedented to have such a thing happen. But that is way to deep for this issue.
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jf1acai wrote: There were no problems in New Orleans after Katrina either.
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Yeah, actually there were (hubby's company was the one that cleaned New Orleans up after Katrina). They even sent National guard in and imposed a curfew. Hubby's company had problems with people trying to impersonate them (they had bought special shirts with their logo and embroidered with Hurricane Katrina Recovery and people were making their own fake shirt copies. They had to instruct anyone expecting them to confirm they were wearing the correct shirt and had proper ID - they didn't have to do anything like that in any other cleanup/job site, even Baghdad and Kabul).jf1acai wrote: There were no problems in New Orleans after Katrina either.
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