14. May, 2002 - guns - planes - IDs
- Crosshairs and pigeonholes points out that character shows when you've got a gun pointed at you. Compare the reactions of Israel and Iraq when threatened.
- Speaking of guns, this Star Tribune Editorial criticizes John Ashcroft for upholding the second amendment, among other things. They seem to have forgotten entirely about US v. Emerson (or here), which stated that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right. More from last October in this piece from National Review, and from my picks for June 19, 2000 [strib]
- The Radical Amendment from the Wall St. Journal. Notice the wording he quotes from the Violence Policy Center. Notice the similarity with the Star Tribune editorial. [instapundit]
- The Op-Ed's Hidden Agenda discusses the tendency of press releases from various groups to appear in newspapers as opinion or editorial pieces with minimal rewriting. Think that applies to the Strib Editorial I pointed at? I do. [instapundit]
- The individual right to bear arms from the Washington Times. [endwar]
- Hidden cameras to monitor aircraft passengers because, apparently, those of us who aren't flying are staying on the ground because we're afraid of the danger. Well, I just don't want to put up with the hassle. And now they're giving me another reason not to fly. It's not as if I do much that's camera-worthy while cooped up in a flying bus, but I just don't like being watched all the time. [daypop]
- PapaScott is feeling less safe in Germany because of recent events. I dunno. I felt a lot less safe in European countries where the only people with obvious guns were the cops. But maybe that was due to the fact that it was 1980, and those countries were all on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
- Wanna steal an identity? There's a simple solution: ID thieves mine for gold on jail sites. Become a criminal (in more ways than one)! [boing boing]
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Last updated on Tue, 14 May 2002 07:35:07.
