johncomic

I got these quotes from a story on Yahoo News:

New Orleans' emergency operations chief Terry Ebbert said, "We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans."...

One military policeman was shot in the leg as he and a man scuffled for the MP's rifle...

An ambulance service airlifting the sick and injured out of the Superdome suspended flights as too dangerous after it was reported that a bullet was fired at a military helicopter...

When some hospitals try to airlift patients, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesan said, "there are people just taking potshots at police and at helicopters, telling them, `You better come get my family.'"...

Donald Dudley, a 55-year-old New Orleans seafood merchant, complained that when he and other hungry refugees broke into the kitchen of the convention center and tried to prepare food, the National Guard chased them away. "They pulled guns and told us we had to leave that kitchen or they would blow our damn brains out."...

Pause to blink and breathe.

Okay, two points for Mr. Ebbert to consider:

1) His opinion of the logistics of tsunami aid is pretty much guesswork -- assuming that it went much smoother than this is going now.
2) My opinion of the logistics of tsunami aid is also guesswork but -- judging by reports, I never heard anything about the tsunami victims trying to shoot their rescuers, okay? I mean, WTF?

I mean, you need help, so when the helpers show up you shoot them? You're a National Guardsman sent in to help starving disaster-stricken people, so when you see them trying to eat you threaten to kill them??

Other countries have long thought that this whole dynamic of America & guns is kinda strange... reports like this definitely do not help.

(And, lest anyone think I'm making light of this situation, allow me to [defensively] volunteer that I have been on the brink of breaking down and weeping for days now over the whole tragic disaster. I don't take anyone's suffering lightly. Clear?)