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Several Shot Along Parade Route in New Orleans

nytimes.com — Police say several people have been shot along a Mardi Gras parade route, and two suspects are in custody.

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  • Logal, on 02/25/2009, -1/+22I think this quote from the article sums up New Orleans... ''I'm off to Afghanistan this summer. Damn, this is more dangerous than Afghanistan,'' Parry said.
  • inactive, on 02/25/2009, -2/+23It is nice to hear that New Orleans is back to normal after the Hurricane.
  • AmyVernon, on 02/24/2009, -0/+20That's a damn shame.
  • jboitnott, on 02/24/2009, -2/+21For a city so pock-marked by tragedy this is yet another tough blow to take.
  • TalenGTP, on 02/25/2009, -0/+18This is exactly why I didn't go out to the parades yesterday. This is nothing new for us. We've been having multiple murders daily, and it all started the very week FEMA stopped paying the hotel bills for Katrina evacuees (which was months after the storm). The city was nearly crime free from the time Katrina hit until FEMA cut off the housing. You can also link crime spikes to the areas where the evacuees stayed (Atlanta, Houston, parts of Tennessee and Oklahoma). Katrina washed the trash away, but like the rolling tide, it came back.
    You cannot legislate, incarcerate, or police your way out of this mess. The problem starts in the home where there is no effort to "raise" a child. There is also no fear of criminal prosecution on the criminals part thanks to years of an inept DA and DA's office. It's common knowledge that if you want to commit a crime, you do it in Orleans Parish and not the surrounding parishes (especially Jefferson) because chances are, if you're caught, you'll be released the same day and will likely face no jail time. Look at the rap sheets of these criminals. One of the guys that shot 7 people earlier in the day had an ankle monitoring device on!
  • xanadu2113, on 02/25/2009, -1/+18You wouldn't know it from the coverage in the media, but mardi gras parades really are for families. The floats are full of plastic toys and stuffed animals to hand out to children. Drunken debauchery really only involves tourists on Bourbon Street
  • Cancerkitty, on 02/24/2009, -4/+19I guess they are passing out bullets out instead of beads.
  • RuffRidr, on 02/25/2009, -3/+18What is Mayor Nagin doing to address the crime problem? Anything? He is so inept that it is unfathomable that he still has the job.
  • thoughtlover, on 02/25/2009, -0/+15Welcome to New Orleans:
    http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=New+O ...
    It is always an interesting place to visit, but the last time I went down there, a guy got shot within 100 feet of the bar I was drinking at (in a mugging). The time before that, a friend of mine had his wallet picked in the bustle.
  • inactive, on 02/24/2009, -7/+21Is OJ out of jail already?
  • bloominoctober, on 02/25/2009, -5/+19This is tragic, but I have one question ..... who in the hell brings a toddler to Fat Tuesday?!?
  • pr0k, on 02/25/2009, -6/+19Bunch of savages in this town.
  • alapoet, on 02/25/2009, -1/+12Are you having a stroke? What are you trying to say?
  • Pstmann, on 02/25/2009, -0/+9Poor parenting, lack of education and opportunities, a culture that glorifies violence and the easy way out, media that distorts the reality of violence, a shoot first ask questions later populace, drugs, lack self esteem.
    Take Your Pick!!
  • inactive, on 02/24/2009, -1/+9Story is getting constantly updated. 5 shot and one was an infant that was grazed by a bullet.
  • agentinfinite, on 02/25/2009, -0/+8An 18 and and 19 year old shooter. What could make you do something like that at such a young age. Or ever for that matter. Disgusting.
  • KerrSG1, on 02/25/2009, -3/+11Can't wait to see him try to blame this on Bush.
  • jsmith39, on 02/25/2009, -1/+9See! This is why we can't have nice things.
  • TheUngod, on 02/25/2009, -2/+9What *****. Way to disrupt everyone boob viewing.
  • pathouston22, on 02/25/2009, -1/+8"Katrina washed the trash away, but like the rolling tide, it came back."

    Not all of it. Some of it is still here in Houston. Please take it all back.
  • Pstmann, on 02/25/2009, -0/+7That would be a parade of people with knife wounds.
  • Biscuitz, on 02/25/2009, -2/+8The same people that bring babies into bars.
  • sirjimithy, on 02/25/2009, -1/+7Actually, in Louisiana you don't need a permit to own or carry a firearm. So there's no excuse for not owning one.
  • Shakermaker, on 02/25/2009, -0/+6Yeah because random crime is so unnatural for New Orleans.
  • insertAliasHere, on 02/25/2009, -0/+6Same for San Antonio, to a lesser extent. The crime rate had a huge surge when we took the overflow from Houston.
  • Bloodwine, on 02/25/2009, -0/+5Tourism (Mardi Gras, drunk college kids, tourists, etc.) employs a lot of people in NOLA. Take away Mardi Gras, and more people will starve.
  • sockpuppets, on 02/25/2009, -1/+6mistertrogdor must be drinking again.
  • Bloodwine, on 02/25/2009, -3/+8I doubt they were expecting a parade of bullets!

    I bet babysitters are hard to find on Fat Tuesday. Still, I do agree with you about the poor judgement call by the infant's parent.
  • inactive, on 02/25/2009, -2/+6Its New Orleans - common sense does not exist.
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 02/25/2009, -2/+6I'll stick with New Orleans Square in Disneyland...
  • pilgrim3970, on 02/25/2009, -0/+4"There is also no fear of criminal prosecution on the criminals part "

    That is because the worst they will face is being fed, clothed, and housed at tax payer's expense and a loss of freedom. Just imagine what will happen when it becomes like that on the outside too, talk about no fear!
  • pilgrim3970, on 02/25/2009, -0/+4Yeah, because it's not like it is the mayor's job to address these issues or anything.
  • partysan, on 02/25/2009, -1/+4John Douglas Thompson in "Othello", at the Duke. Very relevant thumbnail.
  • KerrSG1, on 02/25/2009, -3/+6Before clicking on the picture.. I'm going to make a mental prediction...

    *clicks picture*

    Yup, I was right.
  • KerrSG1, on 02/25/2009, -2/+5Yup, should have let the rats drown in New Orleans. Would have solved a great many problems.
  • deema1, on 02/25/2009, -0/+3I'm not at all a gun freak, but data shows that areas with high gun ownership have less crime, because criminals are less likely to target someone who might have a gun to protect themselves.

    These punks are going to get guns one way or other, legally or illegally, so why give them an edge? People who say guns are the problem are just making criminals' lives easier and ours more dangerous.
  • Blisshead, on 02/25/2009, -0/+3You suck at economics...

    1) destroy big part of tourism
    2)
    3) NOLA rebuilt!
  • AlbinoRaven, on 02/25/2009, -1/+4Everyone riot!! Oh wait that would never happen, people shooting each other doesn't lead to that. Cops beating a dirt ball after resisting arrest does. Any difference? Not really, citizens can uphold the law and enforce it if required.
  • chiefquanah, on 02/25/2009, -0/+3But think about it... how did these guys get the guns?

    Did they go to a gun show? No too many law abiding citizens and cops there
    Did they go to a gun shop? No, shops require a 5 day waiting period and background check.

    I they went to their buddy drug / gun dealer around the corner in the next alley that is also a fellow criminal and bought from him... Why? Please see above and repeat reading as necessary.

    Guns and gun laws aren't the problem. There are over 20K gun laws on the books already has that stopped the criminal yet... NO!!

    What will stop the criminal? well if you have 50% of the law-abiding citizens carrying concealed weapons then that criminal will think twice because he has a 50% chance of getting shot himself if he attempts a crime.

    Look where most mass killings have happend the last sever years... schools, post offices, etc. These are "GUN FREE" zones. Did the criminal care, no he took the gun into that "zone" anyway.
    Gun control is a way for powerful elitists to gain more power over the people and take government away from the people. When you do that you then have tyranny.
  • Rivfader, on 02/25/2009, -0/+1Haha well I was actually thinking it was two white hoosiers when reading the articles. Most people suspect african americans I always suspect hicks. I have lived in the midwest for too long.
  • Rivfader, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2I hope to God they were not gamers...
  • Bloodwine, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2Those graphs make me feel better about working in Memphis.

    Half the murders of NOLA, but twice the overall crime (mostly rape and robbery).
  • pilgrim3970, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2Those may have been contributing factors but the crime was their own. In the end those are nothing more than excuses.
  • jmuh, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2"If there were MORE armed citizens, then criminals wouldn't be so inclined, dumbass."

    In some cases, like maybe a bank robbery, I can see that being true. But if someone just opens fire at a parade, what does it matter that *I* am carrying? Where is the shooter shooting from? Is he standing among a large crowd? Does my gun enable me to go back in time and prevent him from shooting the current victims? I *might* be able to take him down before he shoots anyone else or before he escapes, but me having a gun would not have prevented these injuries.

    This is not the right story for your argument.
  • TalenGTP, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2You know, cocaine is illegal in this country right? So why is there so much of it around? The idea that banning guns will take the guns out of criminal's hands is ridiculous. Cocaine is banned, but if I wanted to, I can get my hands on some by the end of the day. I've seen a police dog sniff out a tightly wrapped package of coke that was buried at the front of an 18-wheeler trailer underneath a couple of hundred pounds of frozen fish. Yet tons of the stuff still pours into the country. What makes you think illegal guns won't come in the same way and end up in criminal hands.

    I'm not a gun freak, nor do I own one. But I would feel safest living in an area where the citizens were armed and knew how to use the weapons. You think criminals are going to be in that area committing crimes? Look up how Woodstock, GA drastically reduced their out of control crime a few years back.
  • jeremyosborne81, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2Yeah, pretty much. You've got to remember, about 75% of New Orleans is ghetto. People in those areas have no reason to live, thus they act on impulse and have no fore thought.
  • ericburton, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2This sort of thing happens every day in NOLA. This unfortunately involved innocent bystanders, but either way it's not uncommon. New Orleans has always been the most dangerous city in the country, even before Katrina. There was a time when the crime rate was the highest in the WORLD. These kids in the ghetto's get so trapped and pulled in to this sort of life. I know what you're thinking, that it's their own decision, but in a way it's not. The school's that these kids have to go to barely get any funding, they don't have any good education system for kids that aren't lucky enough to go to a private school in the city. They learn early that their only way out is through selling drugs and a gangster life, or somehow miraculously getting a college scholarship if they can last that long in school. Otherwise they will end up stuck in the ghetto forever, poor, or a drug addict to hide from the quality of life they live in. They are some of the most neglected kids in the country, how can you blame them? Blame the state government for being so corrupt and moving around funding all the time and/or stealing money that could be going to help them. Or blame the federal government for not doing anything about our state's corruption. Or how about blaming the parents that neglect their kids so much that they're left to raise themselves and do what they can to survive, which usually turns to a life of crime - who wouldn't choose that when your only other option is not finishing school and working for ***** pay at a ***** job when you can live a rich and dangerous life of crime that pays 10 times over??

    It's so f*cked up. I could talk forever about the problems in my city. But I still love this place, you wont find a culture like New Orleans anywhere else in the country.
  • pilgrim3970, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2tool?
  • MikeDirntRulez, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2I think a huge problem is Louisiana's 60-day rule.

    http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/ ...


    "....Article 701 of the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure [states] that no one can be held longer than 60 days on a felony arrest without an indictment."

    With the time it takes to even get indicted, many criminals with huge crime backgrounds and solid evidence to prove their guilt end up getting released due to this loophole.
  • shark72, on 02/25/2009, -1/+3This is why we can't have nice things.
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