The Volokh Conspiracy did a series of articles about the confiscation of firearms in the aftermath of Katrina. The local (state?) government’s actions in this case enrage me.

First of all, going door to door to collect guns will not accomplish the object of the seizure: to keep jackasses from shooting at rescue/relief workers. The proper response to people who shoot at Red Cross convoys is to kill them.

If the Smallholder clan was less German and more Cajun, and happened to live in the Big Easy, you can be assured that we would have evacuated (or at least the wife and kids - depending on how low my putative Lousiana farm land was, I might stay to save the livestock). The lives of my family come first. Always.

The people who stayed were stupid*.

But let’s assume that the Smallholder clan had ridden out the storm. As the incompetence and “Lord of the Flies”ishness of the evacuee shelters became apparent, I would not take my family there. If we had (and we would) drinking water and food, we would stay put rather than expose the kids to the disease and brutish nature of our fellow survivors.

And then one day the police show up at my door and demand that I turn over my 307? When there are looter and pillagers and rapists and lion and tigers and bears (oh my!) running amuck and amock?

No.

Not just no.

Heeeeeellllllll no!

I wouldn’t confront the officer (you always lose), but I would lie and say we didn’t have a firearm in the house and thank the Good Lord that there isn’t any national firearm registry.

Almost makes a guy want to join the NRA.