Bourbon Street shootings prompt Jindal to send 50 state troopers to New Orleans through Labor Day

[alp227]

Source: Times-Picayune

Rebuffing Mayor Mitch Landrieu's request for 100 state troopers to crack down on violent crime in New Orleans, Gov. Bobby Jindal instead has agreed to send 50 through Labor Day in the wake of the deadly Bourbon Street shootings last weekend.

Landrieu spokesman Tyler Gamble confirmed Jindal has promised the extra manpower to work alongside the New Orleans Police Department. Landrieu had asked for 100 troopers to be permanently assigned to the Crescent City after bullets struck 10 people and killed a 21-year-old nursing student in the early morning hours Sunday (June 29).

Landrieu expressed gratitude in a statement Thursday.

"The New Orleans Police Department has a longstanding partnership with the Louisiana State Police which has provided support every time we've made a request," he said. "The additional support today is a step in the right direction and we are hopeful that Governor Jindal will permanently assign additional state troopers to our city."

Read more: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/07/bourbon_street_shootings_promp.html

[onehandle]

1. Guns are handy. nt

[OldRedneck]

2. Of course, this had nothing to do . . .

. . . with the fact that Piyush Jindal approved legislation allowing firearms to be carried damn near everywhere in Louisiana, including in bars.

What could possibly go wrong???

[rpannier]

3. Jindal is a Republican so we'll hear nothing

If he had been a Democrat we'd have heard about FEMA trucks and black ops helicopters coming in to take guns awy from patriotic Americans and send them to re-education camps

[nolabear]

4. New Orleans will likely clean its own house.

Not a bad move to put a presence in the city, but if it's at all like it used to be, this uptick of violence in tourist areas will be nipped by an entirely different force, iykwim.

[KeepItReal]

5. way to half-ass that cry for help, Piyush

The mayor asks for 100 Troopers, not 50.

[bpollen]

6. But, Governor Bobby "Not My Real Name" Jindal...

...however will the troopers tell which is a good guy with a gun and which is a bad guy with a gun? Is the bad guy the one still standing after the smoke clears?

[onethatcares]

7. why not just

allow everyone to carry guns on the streets of New Orleans?


Oh, they already do. My bad.

How about they issue guns on the way in and collect them on the way out, a reverse western movie theme thing?