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"Ms Liberty" |
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28 Sep 2005 11:57:43 PM |
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Compass' Departure as New Orleans Chief 'Right, But Not Enough,' says SAF |
Compass' Departure as New Orleans Chief 'Right, But Not Enough,'
Says SAF
Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, 425-
454-7012
BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The abrupt
retirement announcement Tuesday by New Orleans Police
Superintendent Eddie Compass was "the right thing to do, but not
enough," said Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) founder Alan M.
Gottlieb.
"While the departure of Chief Compass may begin a healing process
that needs to occur between the police and law-abiding gun owners
whose firearms were arbitrarily seized in the days after
Hurricane Katrina," Gottlieb said, "there are many unanswered
questions about who actually issued the order to confiscate guns,
and the public has a right to know. New Orleans police officers,
visiting officers from other jurisdictions and peace officers in
surrounding parishes didn't just collectively dream up that
confiscation effort."
"It was almost laughable," Gottlieb noted, "that right after SAF
and the National Rifle Association joined forces in federal court
to successfully stop the gun seizures, Mayor Ray Nagin's office
scrambled to distance itself from the statements made by Compass
and Deputy Chief Warren Riley that only police would be allowed
to have guns, and that everyone else would be disarmed. It is
disturbing that Nagin so quickly named Riley as interim chief."
Gottlieb acknowledged that the gun confiscations were merely the
"last straw" in terms of Compass' final weeks as police chief.
Under his watch, New Orleans saw its murder rate climb, and there
were continuing problems of corruption within the department.
Topping it off, he observed, were the desertions of officers from
their posts, and reports that some officers even participated in
the looting that followed Katrina.
"Yet, the problem remains," he said, "that nobody has admitted to
being the source of the disarmament order. If it was Ray Nagin,
he needs to come clean, although he's been so busy trying to
blame every other Katrina failure on everybody else, it is
doubtful he would ever admit issuing an order to take everyone's
guns. If it was Chief Compass, then he ought to say so. If that
order came from somewhere else, such as the governor's office or
the state office of emergency services, Louisiana residents are
entitled to that information."
"SAF and the NRA went to court to make sure this kind of thing
never happens again," Gottlieb stated. "Finding out who is
responsible for originally issuing the order is paramount.
Leadership takes backbone. I don't see much of either right now
in New Orleans."
--
Ms Liberty
United States of America
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