Gov. Bobby Jindal Named As Bourbon St. New Orleans Shoot-Out Suspect

“When the shots stopped, you just heard everybody crying and bawling,” said Ryan Phillips from Missouri, visiting New Orleans’ iconic Bourbon Street. “There were grown men crying.”

That was the scene Sunday in the French Quarter after two men with loaded guns, turned and opened fired at a crowd of patrons 

The main suspect behind the 2:45 a.m. shootout has been identified: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, according to at least one news source.

Jindal, the “Million Dollar Oil Man”, a known patron of cheap hookers, not only has blood on his hands from BP’s Deepwater Horizon catastrophe (a crime against humanity that left people literally bleeding from all orifices along with other debilitating and terminal illnesses), and the historic 35-acre Bayou Corne Sinkhole disaster ready to explode any day. Now, he also has blood on his hands from his new law that resulted in Sunday morning’s shootout, where blood of ten innocent people, one in critical condition, stains the sidewalk.

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As the Times Picayune reports: “The extent of the injuries sustained by the most severely injured patient remains unknown, but it took heroic efforts by a Ochsner Medical Center nurse, three young doctors and an experienced military combat medic to keep her alive until New Orleans EMS could transport her.”

All those good Samaritans just happened to be nearby when the shoot-out began, while Jindal was safe and sound.

“I know she was bleeding internally, because she had blood coming out of her mouth,” said the nurse who helped amid the chaos, who only wanted to be identified by his first name, David.

As David began briefing doctors and medic on the woman’s condition, she stopped breathing and her heart ceased to beat.

“We immediately began giving her CPR and one of the doctors … attempted to give her mouth-to-mouth,” David said. “But there was blood in her mouth, so it didn’t work.”

The makeshift medical team were frustrated that a nearby NOPD officer seemed indifferent to the victim’s condition and their pleas for him to locate a portable defibrillator, according to David.

“He was just standing there, as if the victim was dead,” David said. “But he could have easily been in shock, too. He’s human, as all of us are.”

After the Bourbon Street shootout this weekend, “police did not update the public on the number of wounded in the mass shooting for nearly 26 hours after his report,” the Times Picayune reported.

“No explanation was offered by the department or a City of New Orleans spokesman.”

They undoubtedly know, however, that the explanation lays squarely with the state’s governor. Less than two months ago, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) celebrated a law allowing people to bring loaded guns into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. Jindal said that was in keeping with American values. 

“We’re not just signing a few bills — we’re also celebrating the Sportsman’s Paradise and American values.”

When did drinking alocohol in public with a loaded gun become an American value?

“Isn’t that lovely,” writes TeamSarah4ChoiceFollow for Daily Kos. ”Guns killed more people per capita in Louisiana than in any other state and in less than two months after Bobby Jindal signed a gun law allowing people to carry loaded weapons in bars: ‘gun fight’ breaks out on Bourbon Street – 9 shot, one in critical condition.”

According to the Times:

• In March, a man shot himself in the foot in the Bourbon Heat nightclub after a security guard spotted a gun in his pocket and lost control of it in the ensuing scuffle.
• On the Saturday before Mardi Gras 2013, gunfire erupted in the packed 400 block of Bourbon Street after three men started arguing, leaving two women and two men wounded in the ensuing mayhem.
• Amid Halloween 2011 revelry on Bourbon Street, a 25-year-old man was killed and seven others injured, including a tourist from France, when men opened fire on one another, hitting others in a chaotic crossfire.

Louisiana Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne thinks mass shootings on Bourbon Street will not adversely affect tourism money:

Responding to the most recent mass shooting on Bourbon Street, Dardene said any violence, especially involving tourists, is concerning, adding, “I don’t believe this one incident will keep people from coming to the city of New Orleans.”

Dardenne said New Orleans’ worst crime areas were usually outside the French Quarter, but, “This is obviously a glaring exception.”

Exception? Not according to the facts.

Is the solution really another Stop and Frisk law, as recommended in the shootout aftermath, as Normon Robinson has suggested?

Meanwhile, Jindal expressed sympathy for his latest 10 shooting victims, but sidestepped Mayor Mitch Landrieu‘s request to permanently assign an additional 100 Louisiana State Police troopers to beef up law enforcement in New Orleans.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of the senseless violence in New Orleans this past weekend and we pray for their speedy recovery,” Jindal said in his statement.

“New Orleans is one of the greatest cities in the world. We want to ensure New Orleans is the best place to live, visit, and raise a family.”

Jindal’s 350 energy refugees from Bayou Corne, tens of thousands of others suffering from the oil and Corexit concoction he’s defended amid BP’s Gulf catastrophe, others wounded and or killed from his drinking and  gun-toting law would certainly disagree with him.

The solution to more drinking with loaded guns? Intensify the police state with more troopers, according to the lastest official statements.

Some say Jindal belonged in jail before the most recent blood on his hands. Instead, he aspires to be president of the United States. Considering track records of the last couple of presidents, he’d carry forth their legacies well.

Sources: Times Picayune, Daily Kos

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