New Orleans, Guns, Marijuana, & Crime - a way out?

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Tuesday April 17, 2012 · 7:59 AM PDT

2012/04/17 · 07:59

New Orleans is my favorite destination in America. Bad food in the Big Easy is good food anywhere else. It's like New Years eve in Times Square at least six nights a week in the Quarter. New Orleans and the surrounding parishes have a real problem with violent crime. Just last month the New Orleans Police shot and killed Wendell Allen a 20-year-old unarmed man during a marijuana raid inside a Gentilly home. Why? Police had a search warrant and found five whole ounces of pot!

Wendell was a former high school football hero and oh, BTW he's black. Unlike Trayvon Martin he wasn't killed by some over the top community watch activist, no he died because our elected policy makers continue to spend our precious tax dollars arresting, booking, prosecuting, jailing, sentencing, incarcerating and paroling dangerous criminals like Wendell Allen. Oh wait, he's dead, Bill Bennett the former drug czar was right after all - marijuana can be deadly - especially when you are targeted by the police for possession.

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Should we continue our war on Drugs?

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Should we continue our war on Drugs?

Yes, the government has a moral responsibility to keep drugs illegal.

3 votes

Yes, so many people are employed by the war on drugs we can't afford to cut back on any jobs.

3 votes

No, it's too expensive and counter-productive.

33 votes

No, it has no place in a so called free society with individual rights.

62 votes

Don't know, it's very complicated.

3 votes

Stand your Ground - what the law says.

RFELDMAN

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Saturday March 24, 2012 · 1:21 PM PDT

2012/03/24 · 13:21

The actual language from the Florida staute Title XLVI, Chapter 776 on the use of Justifiable Force can be found here. The applicable section (3) states:

"A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony."

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Do you believe that you have a right to carry a firearm for self-protection?

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Do you believe that you have a right to carry a firearm for self-protection?

Yes, no licence should be required.

20 votes

Yes, a background check should be run, but no training should be required.

4 votes

Yes, but some training should also be required

38 votes

Yes, but only if you can prove some special need.

8 votes

No, no citizen should be able to carry a gun.

11 votes

Radical Center - a way out from the war on ourselves

RFELDMAN

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Thursday March 22, 2012 · 8:10 AM PDT

2012/03/22 · 08:10

This is my first post in a long time, but I thought this community would find my new organization, the "Independent Firearm Owners Association" (IFoA), of great interest. I’ll get into the reasons for the new group shortly. By way of re-introduction, I'm Richard Feldman, the author of Ricochet Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist, I’m also the former Executive Director of the American Shooting Sports Council (firearm industry trade association) and a Regional political/legislative director for the National Rifle Association. I worked in the Reagan administration, am a former police officer and an attorney.

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Would a group that combines firearm civil rights with the reform of marijuana laws be of interest to you?

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Would a group that combines firearm civil rights with the reform of marijuana laws be of interest to you?

Yes, this would be an innovative new approach.

26 votes

Maybe, I need to know more.

5 votes

No, Couldn't care less.

2 votes

Don't care about the gun issue, but if it helps legalize marijuana faster, I'm interested.

4 votes

Don't care about the marijuana issue, but if it helps reform unfair firearm laws in my state I'm interested.

2 votes

An intelligent Pro-Gun group - "for the rest of us"

RFELDMAN

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Monday February 15, 2010 · 4:30 PM PST

2010/02/15 · 16:30

This is my first post, but I thought this community would find my new organization, the "Independent Firearm Owners Association" (IFOA), of interest. I’ll get into the reasons for the new group shortly. By way of introduction, I'm Richard Feldman, the author of Ricochet Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist, http://www.mlscommunication.com/ . I’m also the former Executive Director of the American Shooting Sports Council (firearm industry trade association) and a Regional political/legislative director for the National Rifle Association. I worked in the Reagan administration, am a former police officer and an attorney. I’ve watched the gun debate for the past 35 years. It hasn’t changed much. The same groups are having the same fights over the same issues talking right past one another.

http://www.IndependentFirearmOwners.org<a</p> Read More

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Would a group like this be of interest you?

No, not really

I'd need to know more

Yes, I think I'd feel comfortable with a group like this, although I don't own guns now

Yes, I'd feel comfortable with an upscale kind of group as a gunowner

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Would a group like this be of interest you?

No, not really

23 votes

I'd need to know more

30 votes

Yes, I think I'd feel comfortable with a group like this, although I don't own guns now

11 votes

Yes, I'd feel comfortable with an upscale kind of group as a gunowner

36 votes

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