Conservatives for Nagin
Cobb offers an interesting defense of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. I can’t say I disagree with more than a couple of his points, but then again, the last time I was in New Orleans was a month or two before Nagin took office.
Meanwhile, Dave Kopel takes on N’Orleans’s lawless police superintendent, P. Edwin Compass, III, who appears to have taken R.S. 14:329.6 and run with it. Let’s see if your legal compass is better than Compass’s. One of these is not like the others. Can you tell which?
- “The right of each citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged, but this provision shall not prevent the passage of laws to prohibit the carrying of weapons concealed on the person.”
- “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
- “Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons.”
UPDATE: This, on the other hand, may be a bit harder to defend.
UPDATE: The National Rifle Association has finally figured out that taking away everyone’s guns is not cool. Welcome aboard, guys, glad you could make it.
September 10th, 2005 at 5:43 pm
Defending Nagin from the right
For what it’s worth: a counterpoint to my cheap shot at Ray Nagin comes from Cobb (þ: Xrlq).
September 11th, 2005 at 6:01 pm
His points do not include the actual ideological points of contention. I’m no Sowel, but conservatives do still believe different things than what liberals believe, right? Such as that nationally centralized entities neccessarily labor under certain inherent limits due to immutable physical laws? (Objects take longer to traverse long distances than short distances, etc)
September 17th, 2005 at 11:29 am
Nagin decides to disarm the people of New Orleans to make it better for the muggers and looters what irresponible nit-wit