Law & Justice: July 2011 Archives
I can't help but think that many of those Norwegian kids would have lived if there had been a few responsible gun-carrying adults on the island. Unfortunately Norway doesn't allow the carrying of concealed weapons.
To own a gun in Norway, one must document a use for the gun. By far, the most common grounds for civilian ownership are hunting and sports shooting, in that order. Other needs can include special guard duties or self defence, but the first is rare unless the person shows identification confirming that he or she is a trained guard or member of a law-enforcement agency and the second is practically never accepted as a reason for gun ownership. ...There is no apparent public desire to introduce a concealed carry permit at this point in time, and there is no such license available to civilians.
I bet that Anders Behring Breivik was the only person with a gun on the island, and wasn't too interested in obeying any laws.
(HT: The Truth About Guns.)
Monkey "borrows" photographer's camera and takes pictures.
After three days of hanging out with some crested black macaques in Indonesia, photographer David Slater walked away from his camera tripod for a minute and one of the monkeys started playing around with the equipment. Eventually he hit the button, and the monkeys all enjoyed the noise so much that he kept hitting it. Slater said the monkey had taken "hundreds" of pictures by the time he got his camera back. Probably most were no good (neither are most of mine), but there were also some utterly hilarious self-portraits like this one. ...A monkey takes an image ...
....but gets no credit?
... but a human takes the credit. How does that work?
Don't worry, there's a lengthy legal analysis in a later post at Lowering the Bar.
(HT: The Legal Satyricon.)
What is "the rule of law"? Megan McArdle has a concise definition:
The rule of law is not where you have trials; the rule of law is where the government cannot use prosecution to eliminate alternative centers of power, because there's no way for the government to get a conviction.
