From Neil Boortz Website:
DOING THE RIGHT THING....SORT OF
Some time ago, the brilliant minds at FEMA decided on a policy
that banned guns from emergency housing parks. These are the
kinds of areas put up to house displaced residents from
Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, and so on. The provision was
rightfully seen as being anti-Second Amendment. FEMA has
reversed course, saying they will now allow guns. Given the
lawless nature of the environment after a hurricane, people
should have the right to defend themselves, their family and
property. So FEMA makes good on this one.
Or do they? Get this...under the new policy, residents of the
temporary housing units can possess and store firearms, but
they're not allowed to use them. That's right...you can have it
but you can't use it. That sure sends a forceful message to
looters and other thugs that might do these people harm. They
must be shaking in their boots!
It must be great comfort for a predator targeting one of these
housing parks to know that the government has made their job
easier....the people living there aren't allowed to use their
guns. But don't worry...government will protect you!
Story Below:
FEMA revokes ban on arms in housing
Published October 25, 2005
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency said
yesterday it is lifting a ban on firearms at temporary housing
parks built in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Under the new federal policy, which comes after complaints
from
Second Amendment groups, residents can possess and store
firearms. Using weapons still is prohibited in the parks, said
Butch Kinerney , a FEMA spokesman.
Gun rights groups had sought the change, saying the original
policy violated Second Amendment protections for firearms
ownership. Mr. Kinerney said FEMA made the change after
consulting with lawyers.
FEMA said it has been general policy for several years to
prohibit guns at such parks anywhere in the country. But the
National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation said
they found out about it only this month as a 600-trailer
encampment opened near Baton Rouge, La.
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre praised the
change. "It is wrong to force citizens to give up their
constitutional
rights in order for them to get a needed federal benefit," he
said.
Col. Greg Phares, chief sheriff's deputy in Baton Rouge, had
asked for a firearms ban at the park.
"I never looked at it, and I don't look at it now, as a
Second Amendment issue," Col. Phares said yesterday. "We had
asked for FEMA to say firearms would not be permitted on site,
just as you can't bring firearms into the federal building, into
the Legislature in Baton Rouge, into an LSU [Louisiana State
University] football game."
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Ms Liberty
United States of America
Lenin coined the term "useful idiots" for the morons who could
be used to wage a campaign for socialism, and they're all out in
force, in the form of liberals on usenet.
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