Hey Andrew, Could You Tone Down the Whining?

I didn't believe it at first. I've always thought that he who shouts the loudest usually is trying to make up for his lack of a point.

Well, you're the one with the mass media forum allowing your voice to reach the most people, Andrew Heller, so I'd say that makes you the loudest. And yeah, your lack of a coherent point kind's makes your case for you, but probably not as you intended.

Legal Remedies

The parents of a woman killed during a shooting rampage in a Utah mall are asking a federal judge to impose a 99-month sentence on the gun-seller that provided the weapon.

As long as they're going for legal remedies, I hope they don't forget to sue Trolley Square for ensuring a target-rich environment.

We're the Only Ones Getting to the Meat of the Argument Enough

A Vancouver police officer was put on paid leave after he drew his gun while off duty during an argument that started inside a meat market, authorities said.

It sounds like he gets into it with the butcher, steps outside to settle things, realizes he might get his butt whooped, so pulls his "Only One" trump card, doesn't it?

So naturally he's "placed on administrative leave." Any guesses what would have happened had the meat man pulled a weapon on the cop?

The Vise Tightens

Cops clamp down on gun crime

Thank goodness. I was wondering when the UK was finally going to do something...

How About a Waiting Period Before Printing Gun Articles?

Michael Z. Williamson takes a wayward attorney to task.

We're the Only Ones (Allegedly) Lady-Killer Enough

After nearly three months, a city cop was indicted Thursday in the murder of his fiancée - a fellow officer...

This is one of those "Only Ones" "lift a finger" paradoxes.

[Via Mack]

Point/Counterpoint

Professor Alexander Tristan Riley thinks we shouldn't have academic debates that present "extremist" points of view, as opposed to those that conform with mainstream "polling data".

Professor Mike Adams assumes that Prof. Riley is either a "liar...simple-minded...[or]...cowardly."

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[Via Mack]

Makin' a List and Checkin' it Twice...

A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.

Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, 12 days after the Korean War began. It envisioned putting suspect Americans in military prisons...

Just in case anyone thinks this is only the stuff of lunatic fringe paranoid conspiracy theories...

[Via Vinnie]

This Day in History: December 23

George Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783, in the senate chamber of the Maryland State House in Annapolis, where the Continental Congress was then meeting.