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Well, this makes sense-if we make it nearly impossible for felons to regain their right to vote, they’ll surely want to regain their right to fire weapons instead.
Archive for the ‘Firearms’ Category
November 16th, 2011
Category: Constitutional politics, Crime Control, Feeling Safer Yet?, Firearms, Law Notes, Vote Casting and Counting
August 11th, 2011
I have been trading worried emails with London friends all week, and trying to think of something to post here about the violence. I knew not to say, as many have, that it had to do with the coalition government’s cuts in services, because those cuts haven’t started yet. I was going to say it [...]
January 11th, 2011
The “Second Amendment remedy” discourse of the last few years is a near-monopoly of the far right, “crosshairs map” and all. And Arizona does have extremely permissive firearms laws, and it’s full of people who really, really, want to be able to play with guns and take them everywhere. I would love to hang the [...]
January 9th, 2011
Category: Firearms
If the assault weapons ban had still been in effect, Jared Loughner would have killed fewer people.
January 8th, 2011
I can’t believe some of the s..t that’s turning up in the comment threads on many web sites. The following may be a misuse of the RBC to try to cope with really profound bitterness I’m experiencing, and if so I apologize, and my fellow RBCers are authorized to take it down if they see [...]
January 8th, 2011
Category: Crime Control, Firearms
Whatever motivated today’s Arizona atrocity, let’s make sure that we show the same love and effective, competent help to these wounded people five, ten, or twenty years from now that we will surely show today. And let’s do the same for tens of thousands of others who are surviving victims of serious violence.
October 9th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Firearms
A recent study placing the costs of murder at $17.25 million is attracting a great deal of attention. I hope it will help make the case for crime prevention initiatives at a time of diminishing state budgets. As with many cost-benefit studies, the number itself cannot convey the human impact of what it is estimating [...]
July 9th, 2010
Category: Crime Control, Firearms
Chicago Police Officer Thor Soderberg, very much missed.
