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Monday, April 26, 2004


Gun Control and Foreign Policy
Surfing through the blogosphere, I found "Anonymous" (a prolific author) made an interesting point about conceal-carry laws.

Minnesota's new law has been in effect for almost a year now, and, critics to the contrary, the sky did not fall. In that vein, Anonymous offered a lament that many people who strongly opposed the measure also (in the main) opposed going to war in Iraq, and think that foreign policy should focus on address the so-called root causes of terrorism.

So that's the setup. Here's the quip: (scroll down)
Question: what kind of major cognitive dysfunction is required in order to believe that proven homicidal dictators and mass-murdering terrorists will become reasonable people if given half a chance, while simultaneously believing that your friends, relatives, and neighbors, whom you've known all your life, will become bloodthirsty killers if given half a chance?

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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