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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 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 on 2/23/23 at 10:47 am to John88
I'd need ore context for those whose charged were dropped. Priors/what they were doing when caught, etc.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:48 am to John88
Good. It shouldn't be against the law to practice your second amendment rights.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:48 am to John88
It must be election season. Billy hasn’t said shite in years. This isn’t a new issue.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:52 am to John88
Good. This is a 2A win.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:56 am to John88
If they're not disqualified for ownership, no harm-no foul.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:02 am to John88
How did they know these people had guns? Same thing happened in Laffy.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:16 am to jcaz
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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 on 2/23/23 at 11:20 am to John88
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 on 2/23/23 at 11:24 am to John88
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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 on 2/23/23 at 11:26 am to John88
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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 on 2/23/23 at 11:34 am to fr33manator
quote: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?
But yeah, blame people who's only real crime was exercising their right to the second amendment.
one of these people will murder someone and blood will be on the hands of the prosecutors.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:36 am to White Roach
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Billy Nungesser is a fat, thieving retard
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:40 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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 on 2/23/23 at 11:41 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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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 on 2/23/23 at 11:46 am to STEVED00
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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 on 2/23/23 at 11:46 am to John88
Why doesn’t Nungesser support unfettered Second Amendment rights?
Posted on 2/23/23 at 11:46 am to STEVED00
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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 on 2/23/23 at 11:47 am to STEVED00
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 on 2/23/23 at 11:51 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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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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