Knife Crime. PowerLine notes the consequences of Great Britain’s 1997 ban on private ownership of handguns. If has apparently succeeded in its stated goal of taking guns off the street.
But the result has not been what was intended. Crime rates in the U.K. have risen steadily, and violent crime has increased alarmingly in recent years. London is currently in the grip of a crime wave, as one brutal, sensational murder follows another. The perpetrators are nearly always young, and the crimes, often unspeakably vicious, are generally of the type conventionally labeled “senseless.” The weapon of choice these days is the knife, and British papers are full of discussion of what to do about “knife crime.”
Speaking of Crime. The U.S. government discovered an interesting fact after it began fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa. Hundreds have criminal arrest records in the U.S. Thanks to the recent Supreme Court decision, I guess the rest of them are about to have criminal arrest records in the U.S. We can expect a new court-inspired revolving door as terrorists are repeatedly arrested, tried, and released. Then we will have “serial terrorists,” allowing talking heads and academics to wring their hands over recidivism rates.
Pathetic. PZ Myers, an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota, is asking people to attend Mass for the purpose of obtaining consecrated communion wafers, which Myers promises to desecrate on YouTube. He also asks his readers to send letters to the university president supporting him because some religious nuts object to his stunt. But he asks that you please, “take the time to proofread and send him something that at least looks like a high school graduate wrote it.” So PZ views his detractors as ignorant and superstitious and his supporters as sloppy and illiterate. It must be lonely being PZ.
Safety First. Suppose you put your 3-year-old son in the back seat of the pickup, don’t restrain him in a car set, and give him access to a loaded .45 handgun. Then, while driving down the road, the kid shoots you in the back. What do you do? Naturally you sue Glock, the gun manufacturer, for being negligent. It can’t be your fault, especially if you’re a cop and you are well trained in automobile and firearm safety.
Is Buying a Gun a Suicidal Act? Steve Chapman answers: “Presumptuous paternalists argue that Americans should be deprived of guns because gun owners are their own worst enemies. A lot of Americans would reply: We can’t trust ourselves, but we can trust you?”
July 13th, 2008
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