Pretty pathetic that four of the nine justices voted against the second amendment.If a man in Washington D.C. shoots and kills someone he catches raping his child... what happens?

I expected many responses on the gun issue alone.

Gee, Brian, I thought you would be upset over the judicial activism of the 5 justices who voted to overturn a duly enacted law, not excoriating those who exercised judicial restraint.

Gun rights advocates will find a place where they can celebrate without having to couple these two topics.

No doubt, those who wish to celebrate proportionality of punishment at the expense of children are having a party of their own.

The decision to strike down the Louisiana law is an overreach by the Court. In some cases the brutal, continued rape of a child under 12 has had horrific effects on his/her life. And for the family, the pain may equal, or perhaps surpass, the psychological turmoil of murder. Death may be the only justice such an offender should receive. While this would likely be a rare and unusual case, the state should have been left with the option to carry out such a sentence.
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Five members of the court ended a 20th century agenda which had sought to relace the notion of self protection with a 911 call.

Four members had their cake and ate it...also. They were able to expound in their minority "summer of love" opinion, their irrational ideas why American citizens should be denied a right to keep a deployable firearm in the home...immediately after preserving the life of all child rapists in the country.

One can be totally distracted by unfocused commentary, digressing from the topic. I am going to be guilty of just that, wishing there were a blog as to why so many police officers shoot suspects.

As a denizen of two continents, over the years, I observed that in Europe as well as in Canada, police usually get their man without having to kill him. I once saw a newsreel of a would be assassin being close enough to the pope
(the intended victim) to see the white of his eyes, but the Carabiniere did not have to kill the suspect.

I find it very disturbing, even un-American that all too often the police
officer usurps the role of being judge and executioner, without the jury inbetween. And that even non-violent criminals get trussed up with chains from neck to toe. Have we, as a society become mean, or am
I too cosmopolitan?

Neither.

I periodicaly see a newsreel that documents airliners flying into two tall buildings, not to mention the two other unfilmed aircraft that crashed that day.

I have no doubt that had there been an armed police officer on those aircraft, many of the folks who perished that day might otherwise have had vacations in europe this summer.