One dead, 9 injured in Bourbon Street mass shooting in New Orleans; 2 arrests made

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Source: New Orleans Advocate

One person was killed and nine others were injured in a mass shooting on Bourbon Street early Sunday morning, according to New Orleans police.

The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Bourbon Street near the intersection of Iberville Street.

The extent of the victims' injuries is unknown. NOPD Supt. Michael Harrison told reporters at the scene that the victims range in age from 20-37. Two victims are women; eight are men.

Harrison said officers were able to arrest two men at the scene for illegally carry of a firearm. One of the men arrested is a victim.

Read more: http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/crime_police/article_787af20a-b482-11e6-9523-27a01d744e17.html

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1. TOO DAMN MANY GUNS IN AMERICA!!

[Eleanors38]

6. TOO DAMN MANY CRIMS WITH GUNS IN AMERICA! fixed.

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11. People seem to solve their arguments with guns these days. They get angry and pick up

a gun-to solve their argument! Yes, then they become criminals! After convictions. I am thinking that there are just too many people with guns-they are easily accessible.

[Eleanors38]

12. Crime rates (even with guns)are at a 20 yr low. Most murders are committed by

Veteran criminals, not most folks' neighbors. Many criminals desperately seek power and status, and murder and mayhem is high on the list of to-dos in order to achieve these. Take the gun away and they will use knives, clubs, their very fists and feet. Persistent violence seems increasingly confined to certain urban areas. I avoid these areas.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Who would have ever predicted we'd have so many creeps.

[Eleanors38]

21. Yeah, esp. the skidmark who attacked the Ohio State students in a mass way.

[HAB911]

2. Where were all the "Good Guys" with guns?

hiding under their beds as usual

[Eleanors38]

4. Actually, they are avoiding places where punks & thugs hang out...

Situational awareness is the first step in self-defense, whether armed or not. BTW, being armed for self-defense is not social policy -- it is eminently a personal measure. Instead of taking the curiois attitude of hoping for "good guy" measures, then making fun of them (based upon political memes), one should take reasonable personal measures.

[HAB911]

7. Barrel strokers

never seem to be in the locations they always use to justify their stroking, LOL

[Judi Lynn]

8. Thanks. It's good to hear that point made.

[Eleanors38]

17. Of course, some sausage diddlers can't seem to get beyond the bathroom. I think it's the smell

that perspires them.

[HAB911]

19. Any chance

you could translate that into an Earth language? tia

[Eleanors38]

20. Jeez, start with a blunderbus metaphor, play with it, and get confused...

Rest assured, I will stroke my oil barrel bbq smoker tonight. Damn it's a warm night, even for Florida.

[HAB911]

22. Well

Wet birds never fly at night

[Snoopy 7]

10. Wrong

Elenores38 your wrong telling the previous person "Instead of taking the curiois attitude of hoping for "good guy"" because that is not his point. His point is we are all tire of hearing from those who don't want anything to change about gun laws. 'If there had been someone with a gun they could have ended the shooters rampage' and "what stops a bad guy with a gun(?) a good guy with a gun. I have heard this Bull$hit so many times that I am sick of it...

[Eleanors38]

13. Actually, your illness may stem from hearing it in gun-controller echo chambers.

It matters not to me that Wayne LaPierre or some others push the idea of carrying weapons as a means of effecting social policy. Most pro-2A flks, here and elsewhere, see self-arming as a means of personal protection, not as a way to lower the crime rate; for a number of reasons, that has been falling steadily, and childhood accidental death rates-by-gun have fallen even more dramatically.

I think it is time for everyone to re-examine the efficacy of gun control as social policy; does it lower crime, does it reduce deaths, is there a snowball's chance in hell it can be effected? What is the consequence to the Democratic Party of then persistent advocacy of such prohibitionism?

I do support change to include UBCs, and national reciprocity for carrying arms. This latter measure might actually tighten up standards for those wishing to carry (personaly, I think Texas has a good licensing program for Carrying arms, while blue state Vermont has none at all).

[LanternWaste]

15. Seems to work that way in Western Europe. And Scandinavia. And Australia. And Japan.

"re-examine the efficacy of gun control as social policy; does it lower crime, does it reduce deaths, is there a snowball's chance in hell it can be effected?"

Seems to work that way in Western Europe. And Scandinavia. And Australia. And Japan, regardless of what you allege "most pro-2a folks" believe... (insert rationalization below to better maintain narrative)

[Eleanors38]

18. Those countries haven't had a high civilian crime rate for centuries, Lantern...

So it's EZ to paste on a modern gun-control measure and declare victory. It's called post hoc ergo propter hoc.

BTW, what is your take on why the murder-by-gun rate has dropped so much in this country, even as the population has increased and civilian guns in circulation have skyrocketed? (And those three (3) hard facts are a matter of record.)

[LanternWaste]

14. "Thug." There it is. I'd bet myself someone would use the loaded term.

"Thug." There it is. I'd bet myself someone would use the loaded term and there it is. I'll also bet someone will feign ignorance as to its current usage to better justify its use, regardless of political memes...

[Eleanors38]

16. Sorry. I don't buy into someone else's "loaded term" of an expression from India which works...

for them as well as it works for us. Case in point, the crap heap who shot up a South Carolina church.

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3. I wonder what Trump will do after we have about 50 of these mass shootings. He

has called for background checks in the past. What now more guns?

[Eleanors38]

5. Would you work with tRump to achieve UBCs?