Showing posts with label protected transaction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label protected transaction. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Mexico’s Law Suit Against US Gun Dealers

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U.S. gun dealers are protected against lawsuits stemming from crimes committed by their customers. by the  Protection of Lawful Commerce in ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

American guns fuel Haiti's gangs

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The U.S. is an importer of illegal drugs, and an exporter of illegal firearms (i.e. firearms whose sale is legal, even protected in the U.S....
Friday, February 2, 2024

Picking the wrong pony: wolves and people in Europe

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 The Guardian has the story, within the larger story of controversy about wolves, and endangered species. A wolf killed the EU president’s p...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Guns and drugs on the U.S. Mexico border

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 Here are two stories about some of the illegal traffic on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. First, the war on drugs is fought with A...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

US halts export of most civilian firearms and ammunition for 90 days.

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One of many things that makes the U.S. unusual is the Constitutionally protected status of gun ownership and gun sales here.  Guns being gun...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Guns and gun control

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  In the U.S., gun sales are both a protected transaction and a repugnant one. The right to bear arms is protected by the 2nd Amendment to t...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

The (American) market for assault rifles

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There was a time when Americans thought that rifles were for hunting game, and assault weapons were banned.  That has changed. The Washingto...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Arms for children but not women in Missouri

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 The Washington Post has the story: Missouri Republicans block proposed ban on kids carrying guns in public By Timothy Bella "The Repub...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Domestic abusers have the right to bear arms--5th Circuit Court of Appeals

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 In the U.S., the right to bear arms is a protected transaction. That can lead to some controversial decisions.  Here's the story from B...
Thursday, December 29, 2022

Towards greater gun safety in San Jose

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 The mayor of San Jose, CA, has some thoughts on making guns and gun ownership less dangerous, in a  NY Times opinion column: 400 Million Gu...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

San Francisco's Lowell High School admissions will return to merit-based system

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 The SF Chronicle has the latest twist in this involved story over San Francisco's elite Lowell High School. Lowell High School admissio...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

Guns (concealed carry) and marijuana (recreational): two US maps

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  In both maps, brown is the color of permissiveness.  E.g. on the northern border, only Maine and Montana don't require permits/prescri...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Doctors and guns

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  Americans are divided about  guns, and so are American doctors. While the American Medical Association regards guns as a public health cri...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Bernard Cohen (1934-2020), who convinced the Supreme Court that bans on inter-racial marriage were unconstitutional

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  Flags flew at half staff in Virginia last month, marking the death of Bernard Cohen, and also marking how much has changed in Virginia and...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Wearing military honors is a protected transaction

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  The New Yorker has an interesting story that sheds light on how we think of honorable or exceptional military service, and how claims abou...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

Arranged marriage, in India, on television

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The Guardian and the Indian Express have the story about a tv show about arranged marriage, a venerable institution that is becoming contro...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Laws and law enforcement for actions whose illegality is controversial (the case of 'honor killing')

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Repugnant transactions and actions are sometimes banned with the full force of the law: consider  e.g. narcotics trafficking in the U.S., w...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Bikes and guns while sheltering in place in Santa Clara County (bikes are essential, guns are not)

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From the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health, a new shelter in place order that defines, among other things, "essential bus...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Proposal to decriminalize polygamy in Utah

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Marriage is special, a protected transaction in the U.S. and elsewhere, and that has led to odd situations as social mores change.  Same se...
Saturday, December 7, 2019

Sex, lies, videotape and...blackmail?

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The NY Times has a very interesting story about how it, and two very prominent lawyers, became involved with a man who claimed to have acce...