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Two states enact good and meaningful laws. The DOJ? Not
In a way they’re small laws, local laws. But in a way they are, as one headline reads, huge steps forward toward righteous protections for individuals. In the face of a federal government locked in a crazed demolition derby to … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, War on women
Tagged American Civil Liberties Union, civil asset forfeiture, gun control, Jeff Sessions, states rights
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Why I loathe “libertarians,” in one brief paragraph
Not my brief paragraph. In the Volokh blog, I just ran into this despicable crapola from a “libertarian” lawyer named [David Kopel] writing about The Hearing Protection Act and ‘silencers’. You did realize the NRA is now pushing an act … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged gun control, gun silencers, Koch Bros final solution to democracy, libertarianism, NRA, the Hearing Protection Act
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Why has everybody forgotten psychosis as the cause of violence?
It’s perplexed me for years: someone who can clearly be described as psychotic is violent, yet in the hierarchy of propounded explanations for the violence, psychosis falls to a footnote in shrunken print. If it appears at all. Instead, the … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life, The god problem
Tagged gun control, mass violence
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