A Cure for Mass Shootings Doesn't Exist
There are no plausible options that offer more than the faintest prospect of preventing the next massacre.
There are no plausible options that offer more than the faintest prospect of preventing the next massacre.
Even a narrower approach, focused on purported risk, deprives many innocent people of their constitutional rights.
A year after fiery political protests erupted on campus, we visited to find out when students think it's OK to respond to words with violence.
Thirteen individuals and three companies accused of conspiracy against the U.S., wire fraud, and identity theft.
"The offense is akin to joking about a bomb in the airport," Ledyard High School's principal said. "One simply doesn't do it."
Policies favored by both experts and the public would not have prevented the Florida shooting.
Here are the SCOTUS cases to watch in February.
Congress can't "stop the killing...by changing the law."
"The change in the child's relationship with the father based on the child's fear of his displeasure if she were not a 'true Muslim,' and her belief that he threatened to abscond with her to Morocco, also contributed to the change in circumstances warranting modification" of the custody arrangement.
Shooting revives deliberately misleading talking points about a bad regulation both the NRA and the ACLU opposed.
California's gun registration program is a mess.
Some pundits want school security to be as pointlessly intrusive as airport security.
The Florida school shooting is horrific, but making sure such tragedies never happen is no simple matter.
So holds the Ninth Circuit, in a case in which the Scott & Cyan Banister First Amendment Clinic, which I run, filed an amicus brief.
And that's not copyright infringement, if they only copy short phrases, especially ones that were themselves largely copied from others.
The Florida school shooting is horrific, but making sure such tragedies never happen is no simple matter.
The trial of two Gun Trace Task Force members sheds light on a deeply dysfunctional department.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
The ancient authoritarian imperative to restrict speech shows up in a new guise.
Lawmakers are considering long-overdue civil asset forfeiture reform, and law enforcement leaders aren't happy.
Cop tech can facilitate better policing, but it urgently needs more oversight.
"Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation."
It's been over a year since a petition for rehearing en banc was filed and the D.C. Court of Appeals has yet to act.
Trump says he's inclined to do so, but letter expresses concerns about "sensitive passages."
Meanwhile, drunk driving and vehicular assault by officers are not firing offenses in Hudson County.
In March, I wrote about a forged court order that someone was using to try to get Google to de-index online criticism of a New Britain, Conn. community activist (and volunteer city commissioner); now, someone has asked Google to de-index my post, plus a TechDirt post on the same subject.
Privacy law is eons behind surveillance technology
And Donald Trump just might be the president to give ICE free rein.
Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Grateful Dead lyricist, helped create the notion of "cyberspace" as realm of unprecedented liberty.
The Nunes memo says the FBI deceived the court. Grassley's memo suggests the FBI was tricked itself.
The FBI's disappointing surveillance of Carter Page illustrates the difficulty of implicating the president in illegal collusion.
An Argentinian bishop in Rome may not be the best authority on Chinese politics.
This is a trial court decision, and an appeal seems likely.
Men's Ultimate Frisbee received $15,747.78. "Brothers of Diversity received $984."
A lawsuit filed by the Indiana ACLU says yes.
Officials want to track every financial transaction you make, and they see cryptocurrencies and cash alike as barriers to achieving that goal.
Excellent advice from Prof. Glenn Harlan Reynolds (InstaPundit), in USA Today.
"You have the other side, even on positive news, really positive news… they were like death, and un-American."
His Ghost Gunner and 3D printing are destroying the concept of gun control.
Female groups are allowed to remain "gender focused," while male groups are penalized.
More Republican skepticism of law enforcement agencies is a welcome development.
A federal court correctly rejects a dubious takings claim by Philadelphia cab companies.
He was one of the world's greatest theorists of nonviolent revolution. But don't call him a pacifist.
First Amendment principles that offensive speech is protected "are by no means new. Yet they are strangely absent from the papers submitted by [City of Syracuse defendants] in defense of their actions toward plaintiff James Deferio, a Christian evangelical who regularly proselytizes at the Central New York Pride Parade and Festival ...."
The Nunes memo deserved to be released, and so does the forthcoming Schiff one. But come on, D.C., get serious about abuse of FISA and other powers!
The religion this church administers is Americanism, a species of nationalism.
Governments have gone to great effort to keep the sources and methods of their death penalty regimes secret.
Now that it's out, nobody's minds seem to have changed.