The bad guys have the legal edge. I don’t know what the solution is but citizens should be able to defend themselves. But would any State allow citizens to have a loaded weapon in their car without a CCW?

The bad guys don’t care about laws. They are impervious to the law, as long as they don’t get caught or put away for too long they will continue to kill and car jack. Only fear of death by civilians is a deterrent.

A bill was passed into law that deadly force could be used against a car jacker whether or not the car belonged to the killer of the criminal. They specifically placed no distance qualifiers on the action. As it was explained in one news conference, if a passerby saw a carjacking taking place, it didn’t have to be his car, even if he had to run three blocks to shoot and kill the carjacker no criminal charges would be filed against the shooter.

Carjacking at that time the number one violent crime, fell to almost nothing in number of occurrences. It didn’t even require a lot of shootings of carjackers to quell the outbreak due to the heavy pr campaign explaining the new law. Fear of immediate consequence put an almost complete end to carjacking in La.

I don’t know if the law is still in effect. Due to the violations of the armed citizens of New Orleans, by law enforcement, at a time when they really needed to be armed I have to think that it is not. But I don’t know.