Not reported by the main stream U.S. media was the fact that New Orleans police took guns from law abiding residents.

Bar owner Joann Guidos, said if it wasn’t for her shotgun her business would have been looted.  “There were vans with thugs in them. They were breaking into any businesses where there was no sign of anyone around in them. They didn’t mess with us in here because I stood out front with my shotgun,” yet, when she finally decided to leave to escape the flooding, the local police took her guns.

I was in California during the Rodney King riots, and there were many similar stories of business owners, and individuals, protecting themselves in a similar way.  In fact, by the time the National Guard came in, most neighborhoods, and businesses, that did not suffer looting were those who had guns!!!

My sister, when living in San Diego, experienced an attempted break in to her apartment by a criminal that was being chased by cops.  She pulled out a gun and chased off the criminal who was caught by the police.  Until then she wasn’t secure with guns, but our dad insisted she have the gun when she moved to San Diego.

Back to the issue of cops taking guns from people in New Orleans.  So many people had their guns taken that they sued the city.  A book was published documenting the incident called “The Great New Orleans Gun Grab”.