Infant, 5 others shot on Mardi Gras parade route

Why?

Seriously, what is wrong with people.

What kind of demented sick-o opens fire on a parade?

Guys this is New Orleans, they have shootings at Mardi Gras every other year it seems. Most go unreported except locally.

You're right Citizen. What makes it a little bit unusual is that it happened near the Garden District - although in that part of the city just 2 blocks north of St. Charles are pretty damn seedy. My question is, why would anyone have an infant at a truck parade? You gotta have a screw loose taking an infant out to Fat Tuesday truck parade.

I love the caring nature of the losers that attend Marty Gras. A man gasping for air bleeding from the mouth laying in the street with people stepping over him trying to get a set of beads worth a penny. Great story about humanity and why so many tax payer dollars are going to rebuild that cesspool of human dissidence and debauchery.

if a child is deal why in the hell are they showing happy people why not show where it happened i mean hell that is so sad

People were shot and all some of you can talk about is what a loser of a town and how it just should be wiped off the map by another HURRICANE?!!!!

I suppose if it happened in any of the BRAINLESS poster`s towns, they would be more outraged, huh?

Boy, some people just can`t be happy unless they`re slamming someone.

Never been to New Orleans, don`t care to go, but I certainly wouldn`t wish it GONE for God`s sake!

The article should read "Two low-life, violent and worthless male suspects, ages 18 and 20, were in custody and three weapons believed used in the shooting had been recovered, Young said."

I am sure it was the guns fault, it was societies fault, it was video games fault, it was televisions fault, its was Holly-weirds fault...............just that it was not these two darlings fault. Just another reason for more people to carry concealed weapons to properly respond to criminals.

To the master

You deleted my posts and called them Katrina trolling. Everything I said ties this topic to katrina or katrina to this topic. Do you have a problem with my including God in the picture. You are using a form of sensorship that you in the press scream your heads off about. MY OPINION IS VALID. I respectfully request that you repost my opinions in view of the freedom of speach laws that you are so quik to quote yourself.

This was a horrible action perpetrated by horrible individuals in which innocent people suffered. Has the fact that such horrible actions are performed by individuals every day all over the country? Somehow, it just because it's New Orleans, the entire city is attacked and referred to as Godless, ghetto dwelling losers.

I've been to New Orleans...alot. And yes, there are terrible people there...there are also some very terrific people there too. Just like any other city, in any other state....hell, in any other country.

And as for all those heartless people on the parade route waiting for beads in the aftermath...you might want to remember that a great many of those people could just as well have been tourist.

My experiences with Mardi Gras crowds is that it has been littered by all those brilliant individuals from other states, being the ones that act the worst. They leave the city and insult the people, talk about how trashy everyone here is, never seeming to realize what part they played in that. It was never the tourist's own actions that contribute to the experience.

These excellent examples of morale righteousness behave like high school kids with the key to the parents liquor cabinet while the parents are away. They get drunk, get stupid and act like idiots.

And for all you religious zealots that wish for a hurricane to wipe us out....may God forgive you for your self righteous attitude. Such judgment of your fellow human beings is not yours to pass. You may want to remember that.

A hurricane is a part of nature....not your God's wrath. Unless, of course, you believe Florida to be even less God fearing than New Orleans.

I take exception to the remark about ghettoes and ghetto dwellers being uncivilized and uneducated. There are plenty of people in the ghettoes everywhere that are intellectually brilliant compared to the person who made that comment. I grew up in a ghetto, not in New Orleans, but in a ghetto. I am also a gun owner with the right to carry concealed. I am not a drug addict. I am not a bigot. I am not stupid and I am definitely not a loser. For someone to say this about peoples who have lived or do live in a ghetto, to lump the all together into one big category, is so very, very misguided. Someone who does that has no heart and has no brain and has no conscience. Just because someone is poor does not give anyone else the right to judge them as a loser.

I don't live in the ghetto today, but it is very close to turning into one. There are a lot of good and caring people here as well as in the neighborhood from which I came. They struggle, they work (contrary to popular belief they are not all on welfare and food stamps), they pray, they laugh they cry, they have respect for life, they raise their children, they live and they die. So people need to get off that high horse called ignorance.

Sure there is crime and drug dealers and people who abuse the system -- in even the best of neighborhoods, cities and towns. There always has been and there always will be. What happened in New Orleans is tragic and horrible and was perpetrated by ignorance and stupidity and the lowest form of human life. It is not a result of "gun culture", but a result of a lack of morals, values, ethics and integrity. It is a result of human nature. Even if there were no guns, people who want to kill and maim will find a way.

Until we live in a Utopian world, this sort of thing will continue. Since the dawn of time, there have been murderers and criminals. There always will be until we live in that Utopian society, which is of course only a fairy tale.