What Henry Lee Taught Us...

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 23rd, 2005.  Hit it hard.

It made a mess, as you likely know.  I know personally, having toured the area with a LA state patrolman friend some six months later.  Put simply, 90% of it was just erased...  

However, there was another "mess" it caused, or rather exposed.  And I, The Chuckmeister, am here to tell you all about it...

On the morning of August 24th, the very next morning, while the storm was still raging through Louisiana, New Orleans Parish Sheriff Henry Lee marshaled his forces.  He dispatched his deputies to the homes of every single registered gun owner, in row boats, to confiscate their weapons.  Every single one. 

No, I'm not kidding.  I truly wish I were.

The reason Henry knew who had guns is that New Orleans managed to bullsh*t its citizens into allowing it to create a registry of firearm owners some years earlier.  That was in response to its decades-long, nation-leading murder rate.  Which, I would add, was due in no small part to lax police enforcement under 80+ years of Democrat leadership.  

Creating a firearm registry is something our Founding Fathers would have never envisioned, nor ever countenanced.  New Orleans Parish had to pass a law in order to permit this activity, as current Federal regulations explicitly prohibit it in the absence.  

So just think of it: at the time when the residents of New Orleans needed their firearms for self-protection more than at any other on record, its Sheriff took them all away.  Why?  And why did the citizens let him get away with that?  And better yet, why did they accede?  

Why do I bring this up?  The Democrats are attempting to ram through legislation, right now, today, as this is written, which would create a Federal Registry of firearm owners.  Something that currently does not exist, for the very reason New Orleans residents have come to know.  There are legions of misguided gun-grabbers scurrying around D.C. with the singular goal of confiscating firearms.  And they desperately want to pass Universal Background Check legislation so they can go out and get them.  

Just like Henry Lee. 

Knowing what you now know, are you comfortable having your elected bozos know what guns you have?  Or even if you have one at all?  Do you want your firearm registered so they can come and snatch it up when the wicket gets sticky?  How about those belonging to your kids?  And their kids?

And here's one of those "existential questions" you read about.  If the Sheriff's deputy came to your house to confiscate your weapons, would you give them up?  Would you?  Do you wonder what percentage of your citizen brothers and sisters would do the same?

In short, are you willing to let a bureaucrat get between you and the defense of your family?

Freedom isn't free.  We have to keep fighting for it each generation.  And even if this generation chooses not to do its share, we will...