The ridiculous violence in N.O.

saintsdude76 said

Curbing the violence in New Orleans will never happen because the solutions to said violence would insult the politically correct sensibilities of too many people in New Orleans.

A man is shot in the face while holding his baby in broad daylight. No marches, no outcry form the reverends or community leaders. However, if a black man stopped on the street without probable cause to be "shaked down" by the NOPD and is found to have a weapon while on parole, well, then it's 1965 all over again. This is an injustice to the black community. Now we're talking marches on city hall.

Do you see the difference? Things will never change as long as the guilty are protected, if not celebrated. The victims are forgotten, if not swept under the rug before a tourist sees them.

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This is interesting. Two thoughts. First, all over MidCity, graffiti asks for Justice for Trayvon and Justice for Justin Sipp. I understand that their killers were of a different race and were authority figures, but if we believe the killers' story, the killings weren't as senseless as the killings we're seeing everyday. Why isn't there public outcry against the black on black crime? Why aren't Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton raising hell about these senseless murders?

Of all the possible causes that have been mentioned, no one has mentioned gun control laws. Without guns, none of these murders happen. But no one in Louisiana wants to give up their right to bear arms. At what point do we start to crack down on the weapon that's allowing criminals to kill innocent people? It may be one of the few short-term solutions.