Penny Dean and Your Rights

What passes for thinking about the prevention of gun violence is not thinking at all. Thinking (as problem-solving) is a search for means that can be reasonably expected to achieve a given end. By reasonably I mean that supporting arguments can be provided to demonstrate to the satisfaction of reasonable people the connection between the means and ends. What we get from gun-control advocates is nothing like that; instead they operate on the magical belief that uttering certain words—codifying just the right incantation—will accomplish the end.

<img src="http://police-praetorian.netdna-ssl.com/article-images/endart.jpg" align="right" width="200">Michelle Tetreault's daughter didn't know what "repent" meant when she spotted a man with a sign around his neck warning "Repent! The end is near!" But she's plenty sorry now that her mom is facing a $124 traffic ticket for using her cellphone to snap a picture of the man.

<img src="http://libertyupward.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/man-with-gun.jpg" width="200" align="right">Backers of laws that let pretty much all law-abiding people carry concealed guns in public places often argue that these laws will sometimes enable people to stop mass shootings. Opponents occasionally ask: If that’s so, what examples can one give of civilians armed with guns stopping such shootings?

Law enforcement in Broward County, Florida, violated a federal statute by accessing her driving records without good reason, an assistant public defender says in a lawsuit.

GOA’s Erich Pratt demonstrates that while background checks are not preventing Mass Shooters from getting guns, concealed carry holders are stopping them dead in their tracks.

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On the evening of August 24, 2015, Levi Joraanstad and Colin Waldera decided to set up an approximately 14” inch diameter telescope to, well, look at the sky. Not that one needs a reason to set up a telescope in the United States. The North Dakota State University students were on private property that they rent and were not conducting any unlawful activities. However, Joraanstad was wearing a dark colored sweater with white lettering and that made a Fargo, North Dakota cop suspicious.

<h3>Court officials stabbed in central China in latest knife attack</h3>

A man stabbed and wounded four court officials in central China on Wednesday, a newspaper said, in the latest of a series of attacks that have unnerved the country.

The man carried out the attack at a court in Shiyan in Hubei province after concealing a knife in a newspaper and was promptly arrested, the Chutian Metropolitan Daily said.

One of those stabbed was in critical condition, it added. Police were investigating.

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Until today, there existed such Fingerprint Biometric Readers that required your touch to authenticate yourself as an authorized person.

However, the latest research shows that the future of fingerprint scanners lies in a "no-touch" activity by an individual for gaining access.

Recently, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has funded a number of startup and companies to develop touchless Fingerprint readers.

The first major judicial ruling slamming the NSA's bulk collection of phone records has been overturned. In 2013, US District Judge Richard Leon ruled the program was likely unconstitutional, but held off on shutting it down until an appeals court could weigh in.

That's finally happened, and <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2301500/klayman-opinion.pdf">the appeals ruling (PDF)</a> shows the three-judge panel didn't see things the same way as Leon.

George Perrot has spent 29 years in prison for a rape he always said he did not commit. Until recently, it looked like he would die there.

Now, a single strand of hair stands between him and freedom. And that slender manacle may just have been snapped by federal authorities.

Even if you believe he’s guilty — as Hampden County prosecutors say they still do — there is plenty in Perrot’s case to trouble even the hardest of hard-liners, to shake our trust in those who are supposed to protect us.