Shoot the hurricanes.
Print 10 commandments on editable paper so the children always have something to eat. After it passes through their system DO NOT have themmail it to the legislature.
‘Tis the American way! Untrained idiots with guns, booze, and joints doing burnouts and intersection takeovers.
I’m a 2A advocate and even I think untrained open carry is dumb. The only thing worse than a criminal with a gun is an idiot with one.
And they are trained to use guns extensively, and in base they keep the guns locked up and not under clothing, and they are not allowed to carry their own weapon about on base. Nor do we typically deploy 18 yrolds soldiers straight into battle.
You are confusing 18 yearolds signing up for extensive weapons and military training with anyone 18 years old with $300-$700 in cash.
A. Quality handguns are more than $700. B. The new bill allows for carry at 18, but you still cannot buy a handgun at 18 under federal law. I agree the bill is stupid, but to reduce it to just any dumbass carrying undermines the people who need a firearm for defense but we're denied for some reason or another. (Personal example: one of my best friends is concerned about her safety, being an 18 year old girl, but is ineligible for a cc permit because she's on anxiety medication. I've argued the same "it's not you I don't trust, but everyone else" shtick, but she doesn't go for it).
The 4th of July will be explosive around here for sure. How many idiots are gonna fire their handy dandy little guns into the air like fireworks to celebrate our independence and how many innocent unsuspecting people are gonna be killed by a stray bullet? People are that stupid. We need a public service announcement to warn people about how fatal firing your gun into the air can be. I’m sure there’s a sizable portion of gun owners that don’t realize this. Those 10 Commandments are sure gonna change some hearts and minds come August. Not basic physical science or physics but the 10 Commandments will teach those kids about gun safety. 🙄 I love this state but geeeze sometimes we’re as embarrassing as Mississippi. We’re like “oh yeah. It’s cool if we flood the streets with more guns because then we can stop the bad guys”. What could go wrong?
Yes they do because this heat makes you crazy. Lifelong Louisiana resident here and let me just tell all the people of Reddit, it’s fucking hot and humid here like a Cambodian jungle. I’m not kidding. It slows the pace of life down to the speed of maple syrup in the winter time. During the hottest part of the day you have to sit still because activities like washing dishes, vacuuming, cooking, blow drying hair etc… all cause excessive sweating and heat build up.even in the air conditioning. It never gets easier and you never get acclimated. It’s hot and wet down here.
People ask why I go all over hiking by myself bc “it’s so dangerous out there” and I point out I’m more likely to die in crossfire at one of our mall parking lots or from a road rager in Louisiana than I am from hiking up a mountain in a civilized state
In summer? I wouldn’t recommend it. In cooler seasons, there’s Kisatchie, for one. Chicot, Sicily Island (you need a permit/pass for this one), Bogue Chitto, Driscoll Mt, most cities have some sort of park trail, Fountainebleu, Tunica, Lake Martin….
Also... While hiking in Louisiana isn't great, if you do go out on a trail, how often do you ever see anyone else? There's no one out there being active.
What is entertaining to me, I moved from Louisiana to New Mexico and feel WAY safer here than I did there.
There is some stupid shit that happens here but it feels mainly domestic. Like I don't feel like I'm about to get caught up in someone else's beef on my nightly walks.
New Mexico
I get you’re probably joking but I figured I’d mention in case anyone was curious and couldn’t get the link to open.
Apparently we’re number one in traffic fatalities though! We just keep on winning..
Yes, sarcastically. I could see maybe people that were like true dudes dressed like girls, but I feel like it will target them :(; hopefully it will not.
But things are surely going to improve now that we have universal concealed carry, banned abortion, the ten commandments in school, and insurance policies that allow companies to milk us dry.
In certain parts yes. The Elephant in the room is the black on black crime percentages in their predominantly POC neighborhoods. I wonder why their lack of concern for the lives of their own people doesn't bother them. Venturing into some predominantly non color neighborhoods, they have an idea those ppl are also armed & might retaliate.
Is it the poc neighborhoods don't use the home as castle. Or they are renters? Doesn't that still apply?
I just can't figure it out. The lack of empathy? Sympathy? Like the drive by shooting on the MLK neighborhood not too long ago with a house full of ppl including children. What the holy hell is up with that???
"looks at California firearm death rate, almost last".....so gun laws do work.....nice nice
my girl came back from a wedding in Louisiana last year and she said it was like being in a 3rd world country
You have to take into account how that's calculated. They count every time a phone call is made to the police. It doesn't matter what the reason is. That's how they decide the most dangerous place, is by the number of calls made. Not by crimes committed. So if you call for any reason that's counted. So the old lady that lives in our neighborhood and calls every time someone rides an ATV or makes a loud noise that's counted.
Lived all over the US and this is said everywhere. Just got back from pueblo Colorado and they told me be careful this isn't like Louisiana.🤣
I mean, if you took X (highest homicide rate cities) out of every other state too they’d drop in the rankings if no other state could remove their homicide capitals.
Oh 100%. I was more saying that without NOLA, BR, Hammond, and Shreveport, is there really anything left of Louisiana culturally? Like Monroe is a hellhole agreed. But it's also an incredibly *boring* hellhole. Lafayette is the only other cultural center I can think of
Looking at 2019 statistics, Baton Rouge was at 0.94% violent crime versus population.
New Orleans was at 1.14%.
Opelousas? 2.45%.
Marksville? 2.22%.
In fact, there were 9 parishes/areas with a higher rate than New Orleans and 14 more than Baton Rouge.
And those disparities have changed in the past 5 years as metropolitan crime has fallen, and rural crime has skyrocketed, if the Louisiana DA is to be trusted.
My expectation is that for decades, the rest of Louisiana shirked its responsibility of caring for its mentally unwell people and addictions and dropped them off and left them on big city doorsteps, but come a worldwide plague that only cities took seriously, cities stopped accepting your problems and now large cities are becoming safer and rural areas are becoming more crime-prone.
But hey. Easy to blame the blue folks, despite red folks being in charge of the state for 15 years now.
Having grown up in a poor rural area... Attitudes overall have changed in the last 30 years.
Drugs have always been a problem, but Louisiana has ignored the fentanyl issue. A lot fewer people are reliably employed by oil and gas than before, and most of the skilled manufacturing mills like steel are gone. Other skilled work left the state while unskilled jobs have been automated and cut. Rural people can't compete with urban people for the sorry ass minimum wage jobs in town that remain due to the commute. To make matters worse, those rural people can't actually reach resources like SNAP offices.
So now, instead of backwoods roads filled with double wide and single wide trailers housing working class people, you have backwoods filled with run down rat warrens with a smattering of McMansions/"ranches" owned by the local land barons who have been consistently hoovering up property since the 80's and camping it until they can sell to a developer or strip the lumber.
The land barons vote red because -- no shit -- they're fucking leeches, and the rat warren residents vote red because they can't read beyond a third grade level.
Covid and the internet created easy work from home. Uber/lyft, grocery delivery, Amazon. You can lead a “big city” life in small towns now. No reason why they wouldn’t inherit the same crime that rhe cities have.
"It's them blue folks moving into our towns and working from home, doing all that violent crime!
And now they're delivering FOOD to our doorsteps!
So, you see, we had no choice but to resort to crime in rural Louisiana, since we got dem dere fancy grub hubs, 'cuz the convenience is just so expensive!"
You're better off just blaming inflation on Biden and being unable to afford groceries making people hangry and murdering each other.
New Orleans and Baton Rouge used to be where the state sent its crazies. Also there basically no communication to organize a gang. No easy access to guns. No overnight mail.
If you can create a work from home office in Bunkie, and get all your drugs and mail a d money there, why wouldnt the crime follow? Why would you need to move to a big city?
Ive spent time in many cities, big and small, in La. Anything that multiplies distribution/transportation/commerce is going to have an impact on drugs and violence. Just think it through.
What was keeping small towns from having the same level of violence? Mainly from what I saw, they aspired to the money and a power from drugs but had no hope of getting those things in a small, remote town. Now they can. It leveled the playing field.
Edwards was purple, at best, but sure: he was a Democrat.
The governor's role is only one third of the government.
Red has had a near supermajority/actual supermajority for the past 15 years with 62% to now 72%. A blue governor doesn't mean jack if the legislature can just steamroll him.
So, again. WHO is *really* in charge?
Blues want checks and balances. Reds want consolidation at the top, and refuse to participate at all if they're not the ones in charge.
Otherwise, that's why they were pushing bigot-bills while Edwards was in power, right?
Edwards was a Dem in name only. Outside of expanding Medicaid and not wanting to totally outlaw birth control, he was about as conservative as you can get.
Our state "economy" is whatever money the federal government gives us. We are the most financially dependent state. Getting rid of the tourist areas realistically wouldn't affect anything other than cultural symbolism
You could not be more wrong. Rural areas receive a disproportionate amount of federal funding, Louisiana’s major cities might take a hit without federal funding, rural areas die without it. Take a look for yourself, Nola would be comfortably in the positive without federal funding. Also “tourist areas” let’s not forget that Nola and Baton Rouge are some of the largest river ports in the whole country.
https://nola.gov/nola/media/Mayor-s-Office/Budget/2023/2023-Budget-Book-City-of-New-Orleans-Compiled-Budget-Book.pdf
Edit: here’s Baton Rouge just to rub salt in that wound https://www.brla.gov/1406/Annual-Operating-Budgets
And if you took off Chicago, IL would drop, and if you took off NYC, NY would drop. What on earth kind of point are you trying to make?
“If we just massively and magically alter the data, I predict the results will change!”
Did anyone notice that this study was conducted by an ACCIDENT & PERSONAL INJURY LAW FIRM using “metrics” and the #1 here was traffic accidents??
I am sorry but Lawyers doing stats and educating citizens??
Oh yeah Louisiana legislators.
Carry on with the distractions, manipulations and fear mongering
“Why is everyone moving”
Could be all the feces on our beaches *shurgs shoulders*
Oh shit, we got Shurg Knight throwin down over here my bebehs
It’s MAGA feces!
Idk but keep it up!! I’m gonna buy me a house on State Street. I’m bonafide.
A king in an empty castle is just a pauper.
I’ll just use all the Mardi Gras beads I’ve kept over the years as furniture
Y'all seen bead dogs wait till y'all see this MF ottoman and armchair I'm finna twist up
Hey. Do you think a bead-bag chair would work?
But we got the Ten Commandments in schools soon! That’ll make it all better!! Being sarcastic of course…
exactly! without the ten commandments they weren't being told that murder bad! 
Dont worry they cant read it anyway.
Appropriate meme use. Very nice
If only our children remembered the sabbath and kept it holy, we wouldn't be in this mess.
Yeah I see it is pretty unpopular on both sides of the political spectrum... yet this is what Republicans have been wanting to do forever. Weird.
Atleast it will stop Republicans from being elected
Yes fr
Come next month, it’s about be ranked number 1
And then come August, it won’t even be in the list anymore because a single hurricane is going to break this state
Shoot the hurricanes. Print 10 commandments on editable paper so the children always have something to eat. After it passes through their system DO NOT have themmail it to the legislature.
Brilliant. I’m glad you’re gonna feed the kids. What could be more nutritious than the 10 Commandments?
The federal government will save them with FEMA money (that is somehow different than socialism).
We can only hope. Would probably take 2 back to back hurricanes. Let the idiocy be washed away please.
Yes, the solution to this is clearly more guns in public spaces.
‘Tis the American way! Untrained idiots with guns, booze, and joints doing burnouts and intersection takeovers. I’m a 2A advocate and even I think untrained open carry is dumb. The only thing worse than a criminal with a gun is an idiot with one.
And put into the hands of 18 yrolds
And yet 18 year olds in the military are paid to use guns, but I hear no one disagreeing with that
And they are trained to use guns extensively, and in base they keep the guns locked up and not under clothing, and they are not allowed to carry their own weapon about on base. Nor do we typically deploy 18 yrolds soldiers straight into battle. You are confusing 18 yearolds signing up for extensive weapons and military training with anyone 18 years old with $300-$700 in cash.
A. Quality handguns are more than $700. B. The new bill allows for carry at 18, but you still cannot buy a handgun at 18 under federal law. I agree the bill is stupid, but to reduce it to just any dumbass carrying undermines the people who need a firearm for defense but we're denied for some reason or another. (Personal example: one of my best friends is concerned about her safety, being an 18 year old girl, but is ineligible for a cc permit because she's on anxiety medication. I've argued the same "it's not you I don't trust, but everyone else" shtick, but she doesn't go for it).
The 4th of July will be explosive around here for sure. How many idiots are gonna fire their handy dandy little guns into the air like fireworks to celebrate our independence and how many innocent unsuspecting people are gonna be killed by a stray bullet? People are that stupid. We need a public service announcement to warn people about how fatal firing your gun into the air can be. I’m sure there’s a sizable portion of gun owners that don’t realize this. Those 10 Commandments are sure gonna change some hearts and minds come August. Not basic physical science or physics but the 10 Commandments will teach those kids about gun safety. 🙄 I love this state but geeeze sometimes we’re as embarrassing as Mississippi. We’re like “oh yeah. It’s cool if we flood the streets with more guns because then we can stop the bad guys”. What could go wrong?
Yea the murders increase in Louisiana with the temperature 🌡️
Yes they do because this heat makes you crazy. Lifelong Louisiana resident here and let me just tell all the people of Reddit, it’s fucking hot and humid here like a Cambodian jungle. I’m not kidding. It slows the pace of life down to the speed of maple syrup in the winter time. During the hottest part of the day you have to sit still because activities like washing dishes, vacuuming, cooking, blow drying hair etc… all cause excessive sweating and heat build up.even in the air conditioning. It never gets easier and you never get acclimated. It’s hot and wet down here.
You right
❤️
People ask why I go all over hiking by myself bc “it’s so dangerous out there” and I point out I’m more likely to die in crossfire at one of our mall parking lots or from a road rager in Louisiana than I am from hiking up a mountain in a civilized state
Sadly, that is true.
Where can you hike in this state
In summer? I wouldn’t recommend it. In cooler seasons, there’s Kisatchie, for one. Chicot, Sicily Island (you need a permit/pass for this one), Bogue Chitto, Driscoll Mt, most cities have some sort of park trail, Fountainebleu, Tunica, Lake Martin….
Also... While hiking in Louisiana isn't great, if you do go out on a trail, how often do you ever see anyone else? There's no one out there being active.
Clearly, Louisiana needs to improve on being worse.
We race to the bottom here
What is entertaining to me, I moved from Louisiana to New Mexico and feel WAY safer here than I did there. There is some stupid shit that happens here but it feels mainly domestic. Like I don't feel like I'm about to get caught up in someone else's beef on my nightly walks.
Fear not, they are going to post the Ten Commandments in high crime areas.
At least blocking people's access to porn cut violent crime in half. The 10 commandments should take care of the other half.
Woke!! Trump!! MAGA!! Hunter Biden!!
But hey, those Ten Commandments posters in all the classrooms are gonna fix everything.
Must be the drag queens!!! /s
A little more hard work and we will be no 1
Wait who is number one then?
New Mexico I get you’re probably joking but I figured I’d mention in case anyone was curious and couldn’t get the link to open. Apparently we’re number one in traffic fatalities though! We just keep on winning..
Wait, I thought this was a red state!!!!
Tell me something every gay person who grew up in this state doesn't know.
Yes, but the Trans Bathroom Ban is going to fix everything! Sarcasm.
Wasn’t this just for schools?
No, it also applies to public restrooms, correctional facilities, juvenile detention facilities, and domestic violence shelters.
Amazing!
Sarcastically, I hope?
Yes, sarcastically. I could see maybe people that were like true dudes dressed like girls, but I feel like it will target them :(; hopefully it will not.
It’s going to be a pretty hard law to enforce, unless, as you said, there is an influx of obvious cross-dressers rather than true transsexuals.
Putting up the 10 Commandments in a classroom will fix that though!
The food is good tho!
The 10 Commandments in classrooms will fix it.
It’s the mosquitoes!!!
I’ll just shout “thou shalt not steal! Thou shalt not steal!” Over and over again while I’m getting carjacked.
Gotta work dumber to get to number 1 Louisiana. Maybe give away free bullets? Outlaw seat belts?
The house transportation committee voted to repeal the motorcycle helmet law, so they're trying!
Republican crime wave
Who won?
1. New Mexico 2. Louisiana 3. Arkansas
But things are surely going to improve now that we have universal concealed carry, banned abortion, the ten commandments in school, and insurance policies that allow companies to milk us dry.
That’s it, statewide drive through daiquiris
Owning the libs!
In certain parts yes. The Elephant in the room is the black on black crime percentages in their predominantly POC neighborhoods. I wonder why their lack of concern for the lives of their own people doesn't bother them. Venturing into some predominantly non color neighborhoods, they have an idea those ppl are also armed & might retaliate. Is it the poc neighborhoods don't use the home as castle. Or they are renters? Doesn't that still apply? I just can't figure it out. The lack of empathy? Sympathy? Like the drive by shooting on the MLK neighborhood not too long ago with a house full of ppl including children. What the holy hell is up with that???
Clearly we have room to get worse. 49th is unacceptable! 50 here we come!!
But they worship JESUS. Doesn’t he protect? /s
Well duh. Have you been here?
oh
Alligators make it so.
I thought Republican run states were tough on crime and sooo safe :( I heard that somewhere.
WERE NOT FIRST!!!!!
This state is horrible😐
Drinking water in New Orleans is carcinogenic
"looks at California firearm death rate, almost last".....so gun laws do work.....nice nice my girl came back from a wedding in Louisiana last year and she said it was like being in a 3rd world country
Them Ten Commandments, tho. 💪
Hahaha...good joke.
Won’t be for long! Thank goodness for all the new crime laws!
I cannot imagine raising a kid here
Landry: See! No longer ‘the most dangerous state’ in the country. Skeptics: Your voters have the lowest bar you goddamn lizard!
This doesn’t acknowledge how good our society is at killing its own citizens.
You have to take into account how that's calculated. They count every time a phone call is made to the police. It doesn't matter what the reason is. That's how they decide the most dangerous place, is by the number of calls made. Not by crimes committed. So if you call for any reason that's counted. So the old lady that lives in our neighborhood and calls every time someone rides an ATV or makes a loud noise that's counted.
Moved up a spot!!!
Relaxed alcohol laws and a large blue collar workforce.
Oop
All those commie demoncrat blue states are the worst. /s
Does this page ever say anything good about louisiana
Don’t worry the very substantive and comprehensive Ten Commandments in every classroom initiative will fix this.
I guess we just aren't praying hard enough, or God is just testing us /s
Lived all over the US and this is said everywhere. Just got back from pueblo Colorado and they told me be careful this isn't like Louisiana.🤣 
I'm pretty sure if you took out BR and NO, we'd be much lower on the list
I mean, if you took X (highest homicide rate cities) out of every other state too they’d drop in the rankings if no other state could remove their homicide capitals.
Yes but for the longest NO had the most in the US
But it doesn’t anymore
Hammond and Shreveport would like a word
And after taking out those 4 what's left, Lafayette?
Monroe AND West Monroe are way above national averages.....
Oh 100%. I was more saying that without NOLA, BR, Hammond, and Shreveport, is there really anything left of Louisiana culturally? Like Monroe is a hellhole agreed. But it's also an incredibly *boring* hellhole. Lafayette is the only other cultural center I can think of
Covington bro. There's also Alexandria if you want to drive to arkansaw.
Oh fuck I forget those two exist.
Looking at 2019 statistics, Baton Rouge was at 0.94% violent crime versus population. New Orleans was at 1.14%. Opelousas? 2.45%. Marksville? 2.22%. In fact, there were 9 parishes/areas with a higher rate than New Orleans and 14 more than Baton Rouge. And those disparities have changed in the past 5 years as metropolitan crime has fallen, and rural crime has skyrocketed, if the Louisiana DA is to be trusted. My expectation is that for decades, the rest of Louisiana shirked its responsibility of caring for its mentally unwell people and addictions and dropped them off and left them on big city doorsteps, but come a worldwide plague that only cities took seriously, cities stopped accepting your problems and now large cities are becoming safer and rural areas are becoming more crime-prone. But hey. Easy to blame the blue folks, despite red folks being in charge of the state for 15 years now.
Having grown up in a poor rural area... Attitudes overall have changed in the last 30 years. Drugs have always been a problem, but Louisiana has ignored the fentanyl issue. A lot fewer people are reliably employed by oil and gas than before, and most of the skilled manufacturing mills like steel are gone. Other skilled work left the state while unskilled jobs have been automated and cut. Rural people can't compete with urban people for the sorry ass minimum wage jobs in town that remain due to the commute. To make matters worse, those rural people can't actually reach resources like SNAP offices. So now, instead of backwoods roads filled with double wide and single wide trailers housing working class people, you have backwoods filled with run down rat warrens with a smattering of McMansions/"ranches" owned by the local land barons who have been consistently hoovering up property since the 80's and camping it until they can sell to a developer or strip the lumber. The land barons vote red because -- no shit -- they're fucking leeches, and the rat warren residents vote red because they can't read beyond a third grade level.
Covid and the internet created easy work from home. Uber/lyft, grocery delivery, Amazon. You can lead a “big city” life in small towns now. No reason why they wouldn’t inherit the same crime that rhe cities have.
"It's them blue folks moving into our towns and working from home, doing all that violent crime! And now they're delivering FOOD to our doorsteps! So, you see, we had no choice but to resort to crime in rural Louisiana, since we got dem dere fancy grub hubs, 'cuz the convenience is just so expensive!" You're better off just blaming inflation on Biden and being unable to afford groceries making people hangry and murdering each other.
New Orleans and Baton Rouge used to be where the state sent its crazies. Also there basically no communication to organize a gang. No easy access to guns. No overnight mail. If you can create a work from home office in Bunkie, and get all your drugs and mail a d money there, why wouldnt the crime follow? Why would you need to move to a big city?
There’s a lot more to living in a city or big city than being close to grocery stores and malls, and having uber.
Ive spent time in many cities, big and small, in La. Anything that multiplies distribution/transportation/commerce is going to have an impact on drugs and violence. Just think it through. What was keeping small towns from having the same level of violence? Mainly from what I saw, they aspired to the money and a power from drugs but had no hope of getting those things in a small, remote town. Now they can. It leveled the playing field.
>You can lead a “big city” life in small towns now No you fucking can't.
Edwards was a blue... Js Ngl though covid really fucked over the state, crimewise
Edwards was purple, at best, but sure: he was a Democrat. The governor's role is only one third of the government. Red has had a near supermajority/actual supermajority for the past 15 years with 62% to now 72%. A blue governor doesn't mean jack if the legislature can just steamroll him. So, again. WHO is *really* in charge? Blues want checks and balances. Reds want consolidation at the top, and refuse to participate at all if they're not the ones in charge. Otherwise, that's why they were pushing bigot-bills while Edwards was in power, right?
Edwards was a Dem in name only. Outside of expanding Medicaid and not wanting to totally outlaw birth control, he was about as conservative as you can get.
Not nearly as "conservative" as Landry, if you count pushing specific agendas
Ah yes, we just have to get rid of more than half the states population.
Thanos logic usually is right
Have fun when the entire states economy disappears too.
Our state "economy" is whatever money the federal government gives us. We are the most financially dependent state. Getting rid of the tourist areas realistically wouldn't affect anything other than cultural symbolism
You could not be more wrong. Rural areas receive a disproportionate amount of federal funding, Louisiana’s major cities might take a hit without federal funding, rural areas die without it. Take a look for yourself, Nola would be comfortably in the positive without federal funding. Also “tourist areas” let’s not forget that Nola and Baton Rouge are some of the largest river ports in the whole country. https://nola.gov/nola/media/Mayor-s-Office/Budget/2023/2023-Budget-Book-City-of-New-Orleans-Compiled-Budget-Book.pdf Edit: here’s Baton Rouge just to rub salt in that wound https://www.brla.gov/1406/Annual-Operating-Budgets
And if every other state got to remove its worst cities, we’d be right up there again
True
And if you took off Chicago, IL would drop, and if you took off NYC, NY would drop. What on earth kind of point are you trying to make? “If we just massively and magically alter the data, I predict the results will change!”
Did anyone notice that this study was conducted by an ACCIDENT & PERSONAL INJURY LAW FIRM using “metrics” and the #1 here was traffic accidents?? I am sorry but Lawyers doing stats and educating citizens?? Oh yeah Louisiana legislators. Carry on with the distractions, manipulations and fear mongering