| MSU Grad Student Forgets New Orleans |
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| Written by Daniel White | |
| Wednesday, 09 August 2006 | |
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A Michigan State University grad student wrote a letter to the editor to the MSU student newspaper opposing another student's LTE regarding gun control, ridiculing the other student's "profound ignorance". Duane Quates said he grew up around guns and is a Navy veteran, but believes that gun control "is actually beneficial to both our economy and the operation of a free society." He doesn't bother to explain how. After attacking the other student's pro-gun stance as ignorant, Quates demonstrates his own naïveté: I can proudly say that I have no fear of the government taking away my firearms. Apparently, Quates has never heard the saying, Remember New Orleans... As frequent readers of this site know, during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, law enforcement officials in New Orleans went door to door confiscating firearms from law abiding citizens until their illegal actions were halted by the NRA. Those people who had their firearms taken later expressed complete shock and surprise that such actions would be and could be taken. Legislators in dozens of states have since introduced legislation in an effort to prevent such an occurrence from happening again. The legislation only specifies that firearms cannot be confiscated during emergency conditions, though. Nothing would stop these anti-gun zealots from attempting to change the law to allow confiscations in the future. Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it, but the price tends to go up each time the lesson is learned. And people who attack others for "profound ignorance" shouldn't display their own lack of knowledge with their arguments. Like Wayne LaPierre said: When they try to tell you that you gun owners are just paranoid... Remember New Orleans. |