Mocking the assault weapons ban through video games?

[Mazryonh]

Originally Posted by S&Wshooter

They neglect to mention in the article that the situation in Louisiana got much worse after the authorities began confiscating civilian-owned firearms. I know many people who would have been harmed or killed in the aftermath if it were not for their guns and the guns of those around them, and while my father was up there as a Search & Rescue volunteer, his Colt AR-15 convinced a group of young men in New Orleans that continuing to try to rape a young woman and hack her brother to death with machetes would be incredibly hazardous to their health. While what happened at Algiers Point was an entirely avoidable tragedy, such an event is not an accurate representation of the way armed citizens behaved during the disaster.

On a side note, New Orleans actually appears in Left 4 Dead 2 as a virtual location.

The problem I see there is that the government tried to contain the potential damage panicked and/or ill-informed people could have caused with their firearms by firearms confiscation, but failed to back that up by sending enough police/military troops to secure the area (by no means their only failure in that disaster). Assuming your story is true, your father saw one of the benefits of that bungled policy; the would-be rapists were not armed with their own firearms.

If your father was by himself (you don't mention if he was), and each of the aggressors had handguns (for the sake of argument), it would have been far likelier that he would have been shot ("It's us against you. So, cracker, what are you going to do about it?"). If your father had decided to "go tactical" and shoot from hiding (whether directly at the aggressors or just over their heads), it would not have been difficult for the aggressors to take the woman along with them (inadvertently or purposely turning her into a human shield). If he made like John Wayne and killed all the would-be rapists, word would eventually get out and likely be the cause of more racial violence (never mind that he'd have to answer for that one way or another).

It is not difficult to get a group of people to believe irrational or manifestly harmful things. Give them guns and the danger gets all the worse.

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by Mazryonh

The problem I see there is that the government tried to contain the potential damage panicked and/or ill-informed people could have caused with their firearms by firearms confiscation, but failed to back that up by sending enough police/military troops to secure the area (by no means their only failure in that disaster). Assuming your story is true, your father saw one of the benefits of that bungled policy; the would-be rapists were not armed with their own firearms.

Yeah, this was before any kind confiscation took place, so it had nothing to do with the thugs being armed only with machetes. Even then, the confiscation only targeted lawfully armed citizens, having little-to-no effect on the amount of firearms that the local criminal element possessed. It's just plain fact that most of the roving gangs were armed with things like machetes and blunt objects before and after any firearms were confiscated, and that all confiscation did was severely harm the ability of the populace to defend themselves against said roving gangs and others who decided to use the disaster as an opportunity to prey upon their neighbors.

The confiscation of civilian owned firearms WAS NOT intended to make anyone safer, it was just an excuse to get away with taking away normal folks' guns, of which very few (if any) were returned to their rightful owners afterwards, with those owners not receiving any kind of compensation whatsoever for the property UNLAWFULLY SEIZED from them by the state.

[SPEMack618]

To change the topic a little bit, but still related, pursue this article and the following comments when you get a chance...

http://www.bob-owens.com/2013/02/no-russian/#more-2875

I've read LTC Grossman's On Killing and made my views about that level well known here.

Interesting read.