Here are the gun owners, what they have to say, and how they behave:
On Saturday, you had to wait out a two-mile traffic jam to get into a Gonzalez, Louisiana, gun show. In Baton Rouge, more than 200 anti-gun-control activists turned up at the state capital annex at high noon, as part of the national Guns Across America protest. Their message: Weapons are not the problem. If anything, video games and Hollywood movies are to blame for the nation's upsurge in violence. Ben Ernst from Pontchatoula, Louisiana, who held a "Save our Children" sign, explained, "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. That's why we call police. Our schools need to have more police."
Here are the MLK devotees, what they have to say, and how they behave:
Meanwhile, on Monday, five people were shot on New Orleans's MLK bolouvard following a pardade honrring martin Luther Kings Birthday. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans police chief Ronal W. Serpas had this to say: "It's the state of affairs in our nation that young men do not heed the words of Martin Luther King Jr."
OldSouth rests his case.
(BTW--the misspellings are the work of the writer for The Atlantic. Author credits as follows:
Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers University's Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at www.jsdart.com.)
