The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
… I don’t see the Governor spending a lot of time on this issue. I don’t see the legislature spending a lot of time on this issue either …
Read the whole thing. I think Spitzer’s dodgey answers on this issue is a good sign that closing the “musket loophole” probably isn’t going anywhere. No doubt Spitzer is no friend of gun owners, but it seems from what he’s saying he’s hoping this issue just goes away. We can only hope.
Bitter mentioned that she hearts farkers. This comes courtesy of Fark as well, and is very seasonal.
 
To Jeff Soyer at Alphecca. This is five years for him. I think I’ve actually been reading him nearly that long. It was actually all the attention Jeff got from Glenn Reynolds that made me realize there was a gun blogosphere, which is how I found and eventually met Bitter. So thanks Jeff! I hope I’ll be linking to you in another 5 for your 10 year blogoversary.
I wish there was more stuff going up today. I’m quite busy trying to convert my employer over to a nice, fast GigE network. We are already in awe over the increased speed of loading simulation data. We’re also discovering which cable drops in the building are marginal. Not much I can do about those without spending a lot of money for people to snake cable, so my strategy is to throttle those back to 100Base-T and hope none of the people who really need 1000Base-T have bad drops *cross fingers*.
I also have to do purchasing today.  If there’s one aspect of my job I hate, it’s purchasing. You’d think I’d like to shop for technological toys with someone else’s money, but that wears off pretty quickly. After a while you just get tired of dealing with the vendors. Even the ones who are easy to deal with. Everyone always wants this or that.
I usually won’t argue with people over what they need to do their jobs. Too many IT managers seem to take sadistic pleasure in denying folks basic things they need to do their jobs. I don’t do that. Whatever I can order for that person is pittance compared to what we’re spending on their salary. If a trackball mouse increases productivity of a six figure salary earner 1% it pays for itself.
Bitter highlights a good piece on the gun issue in the 2008 elections, which concludes with a bit showing why Joe Biden is still a turd. Could the people of Delaware do everyone else a huge favor and stop sending this guy back to the Senate? The rest of the country would thank you.
I’ve come to expect garbage from the Philadelphia Inquirer who’s never looked at replacing the wood furniture on a domestically assembled firearm made from some foreign parts, and having to figure out whether doing so will up the foreign part count to a sufficient quantity as to run afoul of Title 18 Section 922 Subsection (r) of the United States Code, causing your domestically assembled firearm to suddenly morph into an evil imported assault weapon.
Anyone who thinks gun laws are only about fighting crime, and can’t innocently trap honest gun owners, doesn’t have nearly enough experience with them.
The other Sebastian takes an anti-gun person shooting. It takes quite a leap to go from activist on the other side to the shooting range, and I have to hand it to Sebastian, that was quite a feat. His entire post is a must read, but here’s a quick excerpt:
The more interesting part of the evening was the drive home. Becky’s first time firing a gun had been a success, and she clearly had had a good time. I joked that much like Luke Skywalker playing with the laser droid thing…she’d taken her first step into a larger world. Becky remarked that since she’d left the gun control lobbying world, she’d realized that we gunnies aren’t a bunch of crazed maniacs trying to arm criminals for kicks; she further remarked that she thought the rhetoric was too heated all the way around, and that yes, much of what the Brady Bunch and the VPC promulgated was hysterics designed to provoke a reaction, not really anything that was meant to be factually accurate or sound grist for the public policy mill.
Sebastian’s new shooter-fu is clearly much better than mine.
… what Mitt thinks an Extreme Weapon is. They’ll tell you.
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer promises to at least look at the possibility. Remember folks, they just want reasonable gun laws.
I’m not sure I’d hold out Singapore as an example of how to run a healthy society. To be fair to Clayton, the only point he made was that anti-gay conservative values aren’t limited to the Christian right, which is a correct assessment. But I think it’s worthwhile to point out that Singapore is hardly a free society, and despite these claims from MPs:
“We were right to uphold the family unit when Western countries went for experimental lifestyles in the 1960s — the hippies, free love,” he said.
“But I’m glad we did that because today if you look at Western Europe, the marriage as an institution is dead, families have broken down, the majority of children are born out of wedlock and live in families where the father and the mother are not husband and wife living together bringing them up.”
Singapore has a number or serious social problems. Of course, what Mr. Lee failed to mention was that despite their promotion of wholesome family values, Singapore has experienced a drop in marriage rates, fertility rates, has experienced a soaring divorce rate, and is thus heading for the demographic sewer along with all the other western countries who social policies he claims have failed them. Maybe that’s true, but it doesn’t look like Singapore’s conservative social policies are faring any better.