Tuesday, July 30, 2002

The parade of disarmament marches on. Vin Suprynowicz at The Las Vegas Review-Journal - The parade of disarmament marches on - After a handful of killings, Europe, as usual, focuses on the weapons instead of the criminals who used them. It's even happenning, in a small way, in Vin's home town, Las Vegas, even though Nevada is an open carry state. [firearmnews] The problem in all these cases -- and especially when a lone gunman can take out eight city council members -- is not so much that the felons were armed (since all men have a God-given right to bear arms), of course, as the fact that their intended victims were dis-armed. To respond by asking whether "more must be done to control weapons" is like responding to reports that many 18th century patients were dying after being bled by their doctors, by declaring, "We must redouble our efforts to purge these poor souls of their evil humours by bleeding them not of mere pints of blood, but of quarts! quarts!" Civilian death rates climb when the taxpaying class is effectively disarmed, while the two criminal classes that surround us -- free-lance bandits and government agents -- continue to pack heat. We saw it in Hitler's Germany, we saw it in Stalin's USSR, we saw it in Pol Pot's Cambodia, and now Western Europe seems determined to give it another try. [End the War on Freedom] 10:55:48 AM     Comments

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This Modern World. The history of the dot-com economy and the history of the war on terror -- recounted in a single cartoon! [Salon.com] 8:48:12 AM     Comments