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Nanny State

If You Have Nothing to Hide

Charles Oliver | 12.23.2014 6:00 AM

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Beloit, Wisconsin, Police Chief Norm Jacobs is asking residents to volunteer to let his officers search their homes for guns. He says they should think gun violence as an infectious disease and home inspections as a vaccine.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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