The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
Fred Thompson is surging ahead in South Carolina.  From the campaign:
Fred’s South Carolina surge is working!
Two new polls by Zogby and Rasmussen, conducted just this week, show support for Fred growing. Thousands of internal calls by the campaign show Fred’s strength increasing.
It’s Day 10 of Fred’s South Carolina bus tour, and Fred is on fire!
I certainly hope Fred can pull ahead. Â Winning South Carolina will be critical for his campaign.
… to do something about nail gun violence?
UPDATE: Who will stop the carnage?
If they wanted to reduce gun deaths why not eliminate Drug Prohibition? The elephant in the closet.
It worked for alcohol prohibition.
I note it is never mentioned by pro gun folks either.
I’m pretty sure if you did a poll of gun bloggers you’d find most of them would admit that the War on Drugs is an abject failure and maybe we should rethink it. The problem is, there’s virtually no political support for this position. I think the reason for this is that parents envision drug decriminalization as making it easier to sell drugs to their kids, or making it more likely their kids will do drugs.
If decriminalization does happen, it won’t happen fast, and there probably won’t ever be political support for legalizing, say, heroin. But we do indeed pay a high price in terms of cost and liberty trying unsuccessfully to keep drugs out of this country, and our inner cities pay most of the cost of the violent black market that results from prohibition.
I actually do tend to use the drug war’s abject failures with people who argue that despite that, we can be successful at keeping guns out of the country.
Looks like there’s at least some support for removing carry restrictions. I’d really like to see the public park and national forest restrictions go away too. Those are the bills that keep me from ever going back woods camping in Tennessee.
A lot of states seem to get nervous about lifting restrictions like this, but Pennsylvania does not restrict carry in establishments licensed to server alcohol. Hell, we don’t even have a drinking while carrying restriction in Pennsylvania.  I don’t think it’s been a problem here, since most people who carry regularly are responsible enough not to run around carrying a firearm drunk. You’d probably lose your license for that anyway.
Scroll down to “What does L.A. mean to Lindsay” and read. She’s from Texas, is liberal/progressive, and moved to LA to live in a blue state:
Funny thing is, I think I sort of, well, in some ways, prefer living in a Red State.
Because if I have to hear one more piece of coastal Blue State snobbery, I think I will scream. I try to explain to folks here that in Texas cities we don’t shoot each other anymore than people do in LA, that we are actually sort of nice to each other every once in a while, and we also like going to sunny places with good beaches and good food.
Come to Pennsylvania Lindsay. We’re a blue state without all the attitude. But yeah, the weather kind of sucks.
Toll roads apparently divert traffic and increase accidents.
The researchers analyzed decades of data from the Ohio Turnpike and nearby alternate routes in Ohio, comparing both to national data to determine the effects the toll rates had on nearby free roads. Ohio raised toll rates in the 1990s and subsequently lowered them, allowing an easier calculation of the effect of different rate levels. The study showed that as the Turnpike toll increased, truck traffic increased on alternate, free routes as truckers balanced the monetary savings with the cost of the extra time needed to take an indirect route.
I doubt Rendell will care. The sections of Pennsylvania that I-80 goes through are the parts that didn’t vote for him. If their costs go up, so what? As long as everyone else can keep paying more for Philadelphia dysfunctional mass transit system, I’m sure that’s fine by him.
Ladies and Gentlemen; gun laws do not keep felons from committing crimes with guns, jail keeps felons from committing crimes with guns.
Tom King laments Albany DA David Soares who joined other district attorneys in filing a brief favoring Washington D.C.
Traction Control has a collection that is to be envied, as well as an FFL/Dealer inventory that must be seen to be believed.
Fred Thompson has accused the Bush Administration of “overlawyering” in the Department of Justice Brief. I like this man so much, I fear there is no way he can possibly win. There’s no surer way to jinx a candidate than for me to like him.
… the people in Maryland who have unrestricted carry licenses.  Congratulations are in order to the other Sebastian for winning his fight. Even in Philadelphia, he would have had an unrestricted license from the beginning. If you’re thinking about urban renewal, it’s a good idea to try it in a state with shall-issue licensing.