Are Guns Being Seized From Flooded Homes Again in Louisiana?

I’ve been reading reports of pets being rescued by authorities in Louisiana, which is good, but are guns being taken out of evacuated homes by the authorities too?

In 2005, during the Hurricane Katrina recovery, authorities were going into flooded homes in New Orleans and taking legally owned firearms out of those houses, and then were slow in returning them to their owners once the owners returned home to begin cleaning up.

The NRA and Second Amendment Foundation sued New Orleans and then settled when the city agreed to return the firearms to their legal owners.

Question:  with all the flooding happening in Louisiana over the last week or so, are guns being taken from homes again?   If this is becoming a standard procedure, it should probably be standard procedure for homeowners to take their firearms with them as they evacuate their homes. 

Yet they don’t seem to want armed citizens in emergency shelters.

I think they need to have a written procedure on what to do with firearms if an emergency situation requires a speedy evacuation.   They need to hash all of this out and come up with an acceptable plan.

Hope Solo Needs to Set an Example for Other Aspiring Female Soccer Players: Crying Over a Winning Strategy Employed by the Swedish Soccer Team Isn’t It

Hope Solo branded the winning strategy employed by Sweden’s women’s soccer team as “cowardly” instead of congratulating the winners in their victory over the undefeated United States team.

Yeah, losing hurts, and I feel for our national team, but sportsmanship in the face of defeat is the mark of a true champion.  The U.S. team will rise again down the road, I’m sure, but setting a proper example for other young soccer players and teams is just as important.

I hope that Hope Solo and the U.S. women’s team pulls it together and displays some respect for the Swedish team, whose winning strategy the U.S. team probably should have executed themselves, or at least adapted to better than they did.

I hope Sweden takes the gold medal.

Front Line Air Force Fighters Should Have Ample Supplies of Replacement Parts: They Shouldn’t Have to Go to the Boneyards to Find Parts

America’s fleet of military fighters are the oldest in U.S. military history, and it’s lead to some interesting and troubling situations across all the military services that fly combat aircraft.  

The Marine Corps recently grounded their fleet of fighters after two F-18s from the same squadron crashed in one week.  One pilot was killed. 

They’re also resurrecting 23 retired older model F-18s as they’re short on fighters until the F-35 enters production.   This will increase the risk to the pilots and their missions.

It’s too late to do anything about it now, but the fighters and bombers that the military is using in America’s wars need to have thirty year supplies of every single part that could break or wear out.  I hope that Congress gives the military the funding they need for the new fighters and bombers to have the parts that they need to stay in the air for decades, not years.

Hope Congress and the military work together on this problem, so we don’t get into this situation again.