June 26, 2008
The Constitution Still Applies...For Now
As pretty much everybody knows by now, the Supreme Court has upheld the right of the individual to bear arms.
I'm very pleased to say the least. I firmly believe that an armed citizenry is important for individual self defence and as such is a profoundly basic human right. It is also on balance a very important public good. In an area with a concealed carry law every thief, murderer or rapist knows that his victims may have the power to end his/her life....there is no better deterrent than that. Finally it also deters governments to a certain extent from going all Mugabe on the population....the greatest atrocities in history have been perpetrated by governments upon populations they previously disarmed.
Lots of good discussion of this can be found most everywhere but these two posts by Ilya Somin over at The Volokh Conspiracy are important in that they get beyond the general sigh of relief and giddiness current in the rightosphere regards this....and point out that there are a few caveats thrown in by Scalia...and a reminder that a 5-4 decision is very susceptible to whomever the upcoming President is.
On a related note, the all loving, all knowing, God-head-sun-king is throwing his previous positions under the bus to better position himself for reaffirming them upon us all.
UPDATE: Murdoc has a huge roundup of Heller Links.
I'm very pleased to say the least. I firmly believe that an armed citizenry is important for individual self defence and as such is a profoundly basic human right. It is also on balance a very important public good. In an area with a concealed carry law every thief, murderer or rapist knows that his victims may have the power to end his/her life....there is no better deterrent than that. Finally it also deters governments to a certain extent from going all Mugabe on the population....the greatest atrocities in history have been perpetrated by governments upon populations they previously disarmed.
Lots of good discussion of this can be found most everywhere but these two posts by Ilya Somin over at The Volokh Conspiracy are important in that they get beyond the general sigh of relief and giddiness current in the rightosphere regards this....and point out that there are a few caveats thrown in by Scalia...and a reminder that a 5-4 decision is very susceptible to whomever the upcoming President is.
On a related note, the all loving, all knowing, God-head-sun-king is throwing his previous positions under the bus to better position himself for reaffirming them upon us all.
UPDATE: Murdoc has a huge roundup of Heller Links.
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June 17, 2008
Cannibal Otaku Miyazaki Hanged
One of the creepiest of Japans serial killers, Tsutomu Miyazaki, has finally been hung.
Good riddance.
There are those that will point out that this will bring none of the girls back as if this is some profound revelation. They will point out the obvious fact that the death penalty did not deter this creature from doing his deeds and congratulate themselves for their incisive deductive skills. Many of these same people will say that when someone like this is removed from our world that those of us who support this are as bad as the killer himself.
At that point they prove themselves to be rather nonserious or utterly devoid of perspective.
This unspeakably evil bastard raped, killed, raped again...and ate...little girls as young as four.
There are some actions so heinous that if a society places any value upon life, then it must insist that the perpetrators forfeit any claim to life. The very health of a society requires that such monsters face the ultimate punishment.
Good riddance.
There are those that will point out that this will bring none of the girls back as if this is some profound revelation. They will point out the obvious fact that the death penalty did not deter this creature from doing his deeds and congratulate themselves for their incisive deductive skills. Many of these same people will say that when someone like this is removed from our world that those of us who support this are as bad as the killer himself.
At that point they prove themselves to be rather nonserious or utterly devoid of perspective.
This unspeakably evil bastard raped, killed, raped again...and ate...little girls as young as four.
There are some actions so heinous that if a society places any value upon life, then it must insist that the perpetrators forfeit any claim to life. The very health of a society requires that such monsters face the ultimate punishment.
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