Uptown family concerned by lack of 911 response after break-in, several calls to authorities (NOLA)

[davepc]

http://www.wwltv.com/news/Uptown-Family-Concerned-By-Lack-of-911-Response-After-Break-in-252108691.html

NEW ORLEANS, La. -- An Uptown family woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of someone breaking in and luckily their dog's barking scared off the intruder. What they didn't expect was no one answering their 911 calls for help.

"It's a Taurus 32," said Terri Bice holding a gun she never thought she'd own.

Now the Riverbend resident does own a gun, and there's a reason why.

"I think someone who would break the door down with that force had a serious intention," said Bice pointing out the damage to her front door.

On March 16, Bice's family was fast asleep when they were woken up around 2 a.m., to someone trying to break in to their home.

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She documented her calls for help: two to 911; two to the NOPD's non-emergency line; and one to NOPD's Second District. The final call was answered and Bice confirms an officer showed up two hours after the attempted home invasion.

[Loudly]

1. Is this why you think a reference to arms was inserted into the Bill of Rights?

Think again Holmes. (I mean Oliver Wendell Holmes.)

[SQUEE]

2. There are many reasons to own a weapon, I'll Marshall up a few.

Not everything boils down to a right, some things are just coveted tradition, hobby or safety. I see no Constitutional right to a fire extinguisher or a seat belt, but considering there is NO right to state provided security, it follows that one needs to do this for themselves, be it bars, hardened doors or a strong loyal dog... All things I have and rely on to remove the need to use a weapon in defending my life, property or those of my loved ones.

[hack89]

3. There are many reasons

self defense is certainly one of them.

[S_B_Jackson]

6. The police have no duty to respond or to protect any individual that is not in custody of some form

And yes, this is an example of why the pre-existing right of the people to keep and bear arms was circumscribed from governmental over-reach by the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.

[Lizzie Poppet]

7. Of course not. The right to personal self-defense was simply assumed.

I doubt that any of the Framers would have thought twice about any need to explicitly define and protect that right. They elected to guarantee the right of the people to possess and employ the tools employed in that activity. They included a supporting rationale (use in the militia), but the language most certainly does not serve to assert that this is the only rationale. That the people would use the arms they were guaranteed the right to possess in personal self-defense would have been taken as a given.

[sarisataka]

8. It is a gross overreaction by the home owners

which will likely deprive the person breaking in of their genuine rights

[Eleanors38]

4. "Well, maybe guns are okay in the rural areas of...

New Orleans."

[Jgarrick]

5. As illustrated in this story, when your life is on the line and every second counts,

the police are only two hours away.