Retired La. General Laments ‘Denial’ About Guns

Reacting to the July 23 shooting in a Lafayette, La., movie theater that left two women and their killer dead, the retired general who oversaw the state’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina a decade ago lamented what he termed a national “state of denial” regarding the Second Amendment. “We’ve confused the right to bear arms with the right to carry arms all the time anywhere and anyplace you want,” retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore said in an interview published by the Lafayette Daily Advertiser. “The best place for weapons when you’re not in the field is to be locked up in the garrison,” Honore said. He also believes the role of protecting recruitment centers belongs to law-enforcement professionals, not civilians.