By Ken Hanson

I recently finished reading The Great New Orleans Gun Grab: Descent Into Anarchy by Gordon Hutchinson and Todd Masson.

To give you an idea of how interesting this book is, I finished all 190 pages PLUS the Appendix materials in just under three hours. Both Hutchinson and Masson are professional writers, and they do an excellent job conveying a story that is fascinating, frightening, horrifying, and often, beyond belief. I found myself muttering, numerous times, "Certainly this did not happen in the United States."

Well, it did happen. And every gun owner owes it to himself to at least know the story of Katrina and the complete failure of law enforcement vis-a-vis the law-abiding gun owner. "Descent into Anarchy" is a mild description of what happened.

The book begins by outlining the development of Katrina as a storm, which was spellbinding in itself. The number of factors that came together to form the "perfect storm" are laid out in clear, concise format by the authors, allowing the reader to understand what happened, and how clear it was that something like Katrina was bound to happen in New Orleans. It is the aftermath of Katrina, however, that should never have happened.

By Chad D. Baus

To hear the media darlings at the anti-gun Joyce Foundation-funded International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) tell it, guns - the tools some criminals use - are responsible for violence and accidental deaths in America, rather than the criminal or the ignorant. And every police office thinks so.

Or do they?