April is the cruelest month, breeding IRS agents out of the dead land. According to the March 30 “Chicago Events Update,” issued by Free-Market.Net, the Chicago Libertarian Seminar is sponsoring a discussion on “libertarian and economic readings of modern poetry” on April 30.
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“I’ve lived in two countries with strict gun laws, Japan and Great Britain, and if I could press a button and make America’s guns vanish, I would do so in a blink (and I’d repeal the Second Amendment while I was at it),” writes Jonathan Rauch in the National Journal, reprinted in the E-mail newsletter “Center-Right” (March 22). “It turns out that a country with few guns is a better place to live than a country with, say, a fifth of a billion guns. But the fact is that America is awash with guns, and this fact is not going to change in my lifetime, and criminals carry guns already. A rational country would make guns harder for criminals to get (that’s gun control) but easier for lawful citizens to carry (that’s ‘shall issue’). By contrast, the current policy in states such as California–easy to get, hard to carry–is perversity incarnate….So why in the world are liberals clinging to opposition to concealed-carry? No doubt because the gun debate has been infected by the culture wars, and people have taken up sides.”
