Nagin's Proposals Include Ban On Assault Weapons

[beevul]

Nagin's Proposals Include Ban On Assault Weapons

Legislative Session Begins Monday

NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has outlined an array of proposals for the state legislative session that starts Monday, including a ban on assault weapons and expansion of job training opportunities for prison inmates.

Nagin said his administration also will lend its support to initiatives by New Orleans-area lawmakers to strengthen the city's frayed mental health service system, develop more incentives to attract health-related industries to New Orleans and secure state money to cover costs of the planned consolidation of the city's criminal and civil courts.

While Nagin said he will support legislation that bolsters state financing for assets such as the port, the sewer and water systems and the tourism industry, he did not offer specifics.

Proposals to ban assault weapons have been turned back in Baton Rouge in the past by pro-gun legislators.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/15734039/detail.html?rss=no&psp=news

That whole AWB thing just wont seem to go away. It keeps manifesting itself here and there in different forms.

[Irreverend IX]

1. The national party can ditch this stuff...

Or, if they go too far, trigger another Republican revolution.

[liberal4truth]

2. We need to wait until 2012. Then we can get some decent gun control legislation..

in place for the long run, but not before then.

[jody]

4. Why do you oppose the Democratic Party's position on the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and

bear arms?

[enfield collector]

5. why do we need to control an inanimate object? it's the idiots

misusing them that is the problem.

[bossy22]

7. you are forgetting a few obstacles my friend

depending on how the supreme court rules- your reasonable gun controls may be found unconstitutional. Secondly the amount of pro-gun congress people are increasing- many new Dem senators and reps are very pro gun- look at tester and Webb....also Harry Reid is pro-gun and voted against the assault weapon ban.

[virginia mountainman]

8. Anti-civil rights people forget...

They have lost every single national election for 14 years....The make up of the congress and senate is 180 degrees from where it was in 1993..

The congress and senate is the most pro-gun in recent memory.

[jody]

3. One logical solution is add 10 or more years to every sentence for a crime committed with a firearm.

If a sentence for illegal possession of a firearm is served concurrently with other time it is in effect not a sentence.

[virginia mountainman]

6. Ray Nagin made his agenda CLEAR....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4

I vividly remember hearing Police Chief Eddie Compass...

"No one will be armed, we WILL TAKE ALL THE WEAPONS".....

I vividly remember Ray Nagin's stormtroopers dragging old women out to the street.....

[Xela]

12. Those were eye opening times...

Thanks for reminding us VA mountainman.

It was terrifying to see civil liberties being thrown out the window in real time.

Xela

[slackmaster]

9. There is no value whatsoever in a municipality banning a type of weapon

:shrug:

[Tejas]

10. Oh yes there is

I can see it now in his bid for Governor, "Nagin, tough on crime, cleaned up NOLA"

[slackmaster]

11. There's always that.

:nuke: