As You Can See, I'm Back

I see the place is still standing. Aside from a pirate-coddling troll, everything appears in order. To an anonymous commenter: I do agree that the wording on the poll should have had the words "the law" in quotation marks, because you're right--no one carrying concealed without a permit would be violating the "supreme law of the land' or the "laws of Nature's God."

Now I'm knockin' off for the night. I'm awful tired and want to snuggle with some loved ones. I hate being away, even for a couple days.

Journalistes Autorisé

The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.

"Authorized journalists" are the same the world over, it would seem...

I can't wait to see them try and enforce this one.

NJ to Consider Unalienable Rights Ban

New Jersey is looking to become the second state to outlaw a powerful gun that critics say can be used by terrorists to shoot down an airliner.

Anybody think we can win this one "democratically"?

[Via 45superman]

We're the Former Only Ones Who Didn't Know We Were Doing Anything Wrong Enough

Five hundred one guns, tied to one man - 36-year-old Mark Nelson, a former Columbus cop who masterminded a conspiracy that flooded the streets with weapons.

Nelson insists he didn't knowingly do anything wrong. But prosecutors say he enlisted his family and others (including a drug dealer) to illegally acquire 501 guns, then directly - or indirectly - sold many of them.

Lest you think I've gone soft, I think any free adult ought to be able to sell guns to any other free adult. But I do think this former "Only One" pleading that he's a misunderstood man who just had no idea is a crock, and wouldn't be the least surprised to find he put others away during his career for firearms "offenses." If people have demonstrated they can't be trusted with one, they need to be in custodial care--or exiled.

[Via HZ]

This Day in History: March 6

A committee of the New York Provincial Congress instructs Major William Malcolm to dismantle the Sandy Hook lighthouse in the then-disputed territory of Sandy Hook, now in New Jersey, on this day in 1776, telling him to "use your best discretion to render the light-house entirely useless."