SURVENT

When he shoud have done something he didn't and now he seems to be jumping the gun. Once an idiot, always and idiot.

Per an article on CNN yesterday:

Mayor Ray Nagin asked the governor Monday to send National Guard troops and state police to patrol his city after a violent weekend in which five teenagers were shot to death.

The teens were shot to death in an area near the central business district. While it is completely tragic that five teenagers were killed, I do not see why it is necessary for the National Guard to handel what appears to be gang or drug-related violence.

No motive had been confirmed, but "just the sheer carnage of it, the location of it and the time that it occurred" make drugs or revenge likely candidates, Bryson said.

A semiautomatic weapon was used and "multiple, multiple rounds" were fired, authorities have said.

This sure sounds like your typical gang or drug-related crime in a large city. It does not help that the city is still recovering from the hurricane last year and people are doing what they need to survive. It seems ignorant to me that the mayor would not put pressure on the governor for support during the hurricane that killed thousands of people, yet he is ready and willing to run to the governor for help when street violence that killed five people ensued. I suppose he needs help though given that the police in New Orleans are probably still too busy stealing from the local Wal-Mart to deal with street crimes. Who knows, maybe these five kids stole a pair of shoes one of Mayor Nagin's officers was eyeing and this was the resulting revenge. Unlikely, but then again we are talking about New Orleans.