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Mostly Genius – December 15, 2008
Pirate problem needs ’strategy’
“So we’ve got to look very carefully at what we can do to tackle the problem in the way the problem is manifested, and also what lies behind the problem.”
There is no doubt that there are some big problems in Somalia, but before we figure out just what sort of aid programs the international community is going to set up can’t we just start by sinking pirates?
Talks On Armed Security Teams To Deter Pirates
However, most countries do not allow the arming of merchant vessels which sail under their flags and insurance companies are opposed.
There are several ways around this, but the easiest is to pass a law allowing the arming of merchant ships. I am sure that either a new insurance company will spring up, or the old ones will change their policy (the first company to do so will probably get a lot of business.) Alternately, if the world is unwilling to deploy naval resources to protect this shipping lane any number of private companies would be happy to do so.
I do not see how handing hundreds of millions in ransom is any sort of a solution. How long before the ransom money begins being dispersed to fund other terrorist activities?
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Mostly Genius – December 9, 2008
Gifts for guns
So people turn in roughly a 1000 guns and get roughly $1000 in gift cards for each one. Why is this supposed to be a good thing?
Most of the guns collected belonged to people who never used them, deputies say.
“We’re not naive enough to think that criminals will come in and give their guns,” Tellez said. But he said that because many crimes were committed with firearms stolen in home burglaries, getting guns off the street would help decrease violence.
Maybe if the city wasn’t fencing stolen property for greater than market value there wouldn’t be so much demand for stolen firearms. Creating an incentive for criminals to steal guns, use them in crimes, and then dispose of the evidence at a profit is just stupid. Instead of putting another police officer (or two) on the street they are wasting money on programs like this.
Along with the guns, deputies collected 80 pounds of ammunition and two grenades.
Grenades? Doesn’t somebody want to track down the source of those? Isn’t a hand grenade amnesty going a little bit too far?
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Mostly Genius – December 3, 2008
Cops: Driver had gun on dashboard
I don’t think this guy is the sharpest knife it the drawer, but I don’t think I’d bother sending him to jail. I am just glad that the media is warning of the dangers of the sub-millimeter handgun.
Kendrick, of Asheboro, N.C., had a loaded .9-millimeter handgun on the dashboard of his 1998 Dodge pick-up, police said.
(Emphasis mine)
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Mostly Genius – December 1, 2008
Standing their ground: More citizens enforcing the law themselves
I can’t even believe that there is a question about this being a good thing. Thankfully we have Helmke to obfuscate with extreme stupidity:
“The real question is do we respect the criminal justice system or do we go back to a vigilante, every-man-for- himself situation?” asked Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
A vigilante is somebody who bypasses the justice system. Active resistance, pursuit, or apprehension of criminals doesn’t constitute being a vigilante unless you aren’t planning on turning them over to the police. Vengeance and retribution are not components of self-defense. Capitulation and cowardice are not civic virtues.
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