"Well, there ya go. Victims are always right, after all. Suffering a tragedy bestows infallibility upon the victim – a kind of karmic reward for having lost something.
"Which is why it makes so much sense to base law and policy on the hysterical ravings of angry, freaked-out victims. They and they alone possess the clarity of thought and the kind of wise, sober, carefully crafted ideas that make for good policy."
From Say Uncle via Drug War Rant, credited to Independent Worm at Hit and Run.
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."
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The California Vehicle Code requires a permit from the Highway Patrol to operate an armored car on a highway. This is probably the permit he was referring to.
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