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'No consequences' Lt. Gov slams refused gun charges in Lundi Gras arrests

Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:42 am
Posted by John88
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:42 am
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NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana's Lt. Governor slammed the prosecutors’ decision to refuse charges against almost two dozen individuals who were arrested in New Orleans on Lundi Gras.

Court documents revealed that the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office refused charges in 19 cases, including 15 cases against individuals accused of illegally carrying weapons. In an interview with on Eyewitness Morning News on Wednesday, Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser panned the decision to refuse charges as removing consequences for criminals.

“There’s no consequences. They go out and buy another gun,” Nungesser said. “Shame on the people that let them go. When they kill someone, because they will, because they had no consequences for carrying a gun in the first place.”

One of those cases was against LSU football star Malik Nabers who was accused of illegally carrying a weapon on Bourbon Street. At Nabers’ first court appearance on Mardi Gras, an attorney with the New Orleans District Attorney’s Office refused charges on the condition that the gun was not returned to Nabers.

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Posted by LNCHBOX
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:47 am to
I'd need ore context for those whose charged were dropped. Priors/what they were doing when caught, etc.
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
10969 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:48 am to
Good. It shouldn't be against the law to practice your second amendment rights.
Posted by CoachChappy
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:48 am to
It must be election season. Billy hasn’t said shite in years. This isn’t a new issue.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:52 am to
Good. This is a 2A win.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:56 am to
If they're not disqualified for ownership, no harm-no foul.
Posted by jcaz
Laffy
Member since Aug 2014
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:02 am to
How did they know these people had guns? Same thing happened in Laffy.
Posted by STEVED00
Member since May 2007
22579 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:16 am to
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How did they know these people had guns? Same thing happened in Laffy.


This probably has something to do why the ADA agreed to drop charges if the person relinquished the gun. The ADA probably knew they had no business searching the person for a gun any way. Sounds like this was the strategy all along.
Posted by thejuiceisloose
Member since Nov 2018
4936 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:20 am to
Odd to hear the Lt. Gov. in charge of tourism that is running again for his current seat to send a message like this that would more often come from a Gov contender
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:24 am to
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Take the gun away. Let them go home. They’ll go buy another gun until they kill someone. They won’t spend any time in jail,”



Did they commit a crime with said gun? Were they being belligerent? Or did the simply not have a piece of paper? If they had it open carried, would it have been an issue (I get the parade factor, but it's New Orleans. I don't blame anyone for being strapped.

The problem isn't people having guns.


It's that there is a disgustingly violent (recklessly and needlessly) subculture that is so wanton and destructive in their killing they care nothing of the effects on innocent bystanders.

They are the problem, not the guns. It's the morons. And then they are released from jail, with no rehabilitation, after a very short time.

And then go right back to violence.

But yeah, blame people who's only real crime was exercising their right to the second amendment.

Posted by White Roach
Member since Apr 2009
9628 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:26 am to
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Take the gun away. Let them go home. They’ll go buy another gun until they kill someone. They won’t spend any time in jail,” Nungesser said.


If the legally owned the gun, but were somehow carrying it illegally, this is bullshite.

If the gun was stolen, this is bullshite.

Meanwhile, if you're a member of the severely understaffed NOPD and you make an illegal firearm arrest, it's got to be demoralizing to see the charge dismissed the next day.

But it's bullshite to confiscate someone's gun when you've got the leverage of OPP vs freedom. The solid citizens just had an involuntary tax assessed on them in the form of the price of their pistol. The fricking hoodrats will just break more truck windows until they find a replacement.

PS - Billy Nungesser is a fat, thieving retard. His heart attack or stroke can't come soon enough.
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
One State Solution
Member since May 2012
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:34 am to
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But yeah, blame people who's only real crime was exercising their right to the second amendment.

wtf are you babbling about? you really don't think it's a big deal that they are refusing to prosecute people for carrying illegal firearms during mardi gras?

one of these people will murder someone and blood will be on the hands of the prosecutors.
Posted by BR92
Member since Apr 2021
898 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:36 am to
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Billy Nungesser is a fat, thieving retard


Posted by tonydtigr
Beautiful Downtown Glenn Springs,Tx
Member since Nov 2011
5423 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:40 am to
Constitutional carry should have happened in Louisiana, as it has in almost every neighboring state, except for politicians like Nungesser, Frank Foil, and the Louisiana Association of Sheriffs. Absolutely pathetic state, run by pathetic good old boy politicians.
Posted by STEVED00
Member since May 2007
22579 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:41 am to
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wtf are you babbling about? you really don't think it's a big deal that they are refusing to prosecute people for carrying illegal firearms during mardi gras?


I think there is a good chance that they were illegally searching them to begin with? Is there any information on what Nabors was doing when he got his gun taken away?

Take this for what it’s worth, a guy in my neighborhood was telling other neighbors that he was working a security detail for NOPD where he was in plain clothes on the parade route/heavy traffic areas with some sort of device that locates concealed guns. His job was to walk around the route and when his device picked one up then he was to alert NOPD and they would take action. That sounded off to me at the time but now it’s sounding like there could be some truth to it.
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Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
102196 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:46 am to
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This probably has something to do why the ADA agreed to drop charges if the person relinquished the gun. The ADA probably knew they had no business searching the person for a gun any way. Sounds like this was the strategy all along.


Yeah, as much as I am against thugs having guns, I am also against illegal searches by the police.

Posted by Damone
FoCo
Member since Aug 2016
32966 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:46 am to
Why doesn’t Nungesser support unfettered Second Amendment rights?
Posted by BR92
Member since Apr 2021
898 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:46 am to
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Is there any information on what Nabors was doing when he got his gun taken away?



I saw a youtube video that claimed an officer said he could see the L pattern of the firearm through Nabors clothing. It sounds to me like a convenient way to steal a citizen's firearm and leave them defenseless.

Louisiana should have constitutional carry -
Posted by White Roach
Member since Apr 2009
9628 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:47 am to
So Joe Blow is walking down the parade route with a metal detector/gunpowder sniffer so sensitive it can distinguish a gun carrier from everyone else in the crowd? And then Joe calls NOPD to apprehend the suspect? I'm calling bullshite.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
127367 posts
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:51 am to
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you really don't think it's a big deal that they are refusing to prosecute people for carrying illegal firearms during mardi gras?



But I'm asking questions.

Why are they "illegal?"



Are the guns stolen? Prosecute that.
Were they being brandished? Prosecute that
Were they threatening anyone, or behaving recklessly with the firearm? Prosecute that.
Were they a convicted felon in possession of a firearm? Prosecute that.

But If their only crime was that they had a firearm on their person at a parade...
Yeah, I'd be carrying too in New Orleans. Laws didn't stop those people from being shot and killed and never will.


Punish behavior, not possession.
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