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Why it’s never ‘the right time’ to discuss gun control - The Washington Post

▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/07/27/why-its-never-the-right-time-to-discuss-gun-violence

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Last Friday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was in no mood to talk gun control in the wake of the Lafayette theater shooting. “There will be an absolute appropriate time for us to talk about policies and politics,” he said. But it wasn’t then.

He didn’t want to talk about it a month earlier, either, in the aftermath of the Charleston church shootings. “Now’s not the time,” he said, criticizing President Obama for “trying to score cheap political points” for bringing up gun control in a speech.

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Gov. Bobby Jindal Quashes Lawsuit Against 97 Oil And Gas Companies For Years Of Destroying Wetlands | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/09/3446410/louisiana-jindal-oil-gas-bill

Three former Louisiana governors, State Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, more than 100 legal experts, and a number of environmental groups and state politicians urged Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal not to sign a bill that would kill a New Orleans area flood authority’s lawsuit against 97 oil and gas companies. On Friday, Gov. Jindall signed that bill. Don Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, called the signing “a huge victory for the oil and gas industry.”

Not only were there significant concerns over the companies’ responsibility for paying for years of damaging dredging and destruction of hundreds of thousands of acres of coastal wetlands, but also that the bill could undermine other lawsuits against oil and gas interests in Louisiana — including claims against BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.