Regarding Gov. Jeff Landry’s just-completed special session on crime, I’m reminded of conversations I had with my daddy when, as a young teenager growing up in south Louisiana, I would get frustrated at one thing or another.
He would ask, “What’s the matter, boy?”
“Somebody down the road did something stupid,” was my usual reply.
“Son,” he’d say, “growing up in Louisiana and getting mad at stupidity is like getting mad at crabgrass.”
James Carville on Thursday, August 4, 2022. (Photo by Brett Duke, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate)
Eventually I learned to be entertained by fools, lest I needlessly suffer heartburn or indigestion.
In the wake of lawmakers’ overwhelming passage of a Landry-backed bill to allow anyone 18 or older to carry concealed handguns in the French Quarter and elsewhere — without a permit and without any kind of training at all — I’m pretty sure Daddy would say that such laws are stupider than crabgrass.
It also reminds us all how much we will miss James Gill’s wickedly funny and poignant columns. He would have had a field day with this nonsense.
JAMES CARVILLE
New Orleans
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