I haven't heard this report from anywhere else in the blogosphere apart from David Codrea's The War on Guns- residents of New Orleans taking shelter in the Superdome from Hurricane Katrina were stopped before going in and searched. Their firearms- amongst many more items- were confiscated.
When asked why a fingernail file was confiscated, one of the privates replied "Fingernail files have a point on them. We just think it will be safer."
I immediately thought of the survival fiction piece Lights Out, which details efforts to disarm civilians following a national crisis. Kind of scary to see that fiction is not so far removed from fact.
Slightly more surreal is that the incident has been highlighted by none other than Pravda, in an ever so slightly hysterical piece-
"a few might take their right to keep and bear arms seriously, when everyone knows that only government employees deserve self-protection, not their citizen 'bosses.' The constitution doesn't apply when the government thinks it can make you safer by judging you, disarming you, and denuding you of your rights."
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I'm a little torn here. On one hand ... wellll, yah. If a person doesn't have the sense to have evacuated, perhaps they shouldn't be trusted with firearms.
On the other hand, pretty offensive that the US public shouldn't be trusted to weild fingernail clippers!
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