Police Confiscate Guns in NO

[Nbadan]

Soldiers and police confiscated guns from homeowners as they went house to house, trying to clear the shattered city of holdouts...

Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5266538,00.html)

Oh man, Charlton Heston must be having a heart attack about now. Anyone Remember when the gun-nuts used to scare people by telling them that Democrats were the ones who were gonna come take their guns away from them? Well, guess what?

[jochhejaam]

Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5266538,00.html)

Oh man, Charlton Heston must be having a heart attack about now. Anyone Remember when the gun-nuts used to scare people by telling them that Democrats were the ones who were gonna come take their guns away from them? Well, guess what?

What...?

They did have a reason for taking them.

Police and soldiers seized numerous guns for fear of confrontations with jittery residents who have armed themselves against looters.

``Walking up and down these streets, you don't want to think about the stuff that you're going to have to do, if somebody's pops out around a corner,'' said one of the Guardsmen, Chris Montgomery.

[Vashner]

They might as well pull them out if they are going to do that on there own private property.

[jochhejaam]

They might as well pull them out if they are going to do that on there own private property.

Correct, it wouldn't be a good idea to leave a few armed or unarmed stragglers behind.