Alan Chwick – The War on Guns

Poking the Eye of Sauron

I’ve been using FlockHopper, it is taking public data on where current FLOCK cameras are located and re-routing you to avoid being illegally surveilled on. [More]

Not to rain on anybody’s parade, but wouldn’t you also need to disable or shield your cell phone and have an older car without signal capabilities to truly conceal your route? And noting how many cameras there are, how on earth could you plan trips to avoid them all and get from here to there? I’m also wondering if a prosecutor might consider having/activating the app as circumstantial evidence to build a premeditation case.

Then there’s always the power to subpoena FlockHopper records. I don’t expect a developer who collects data for purchases to pull a Lawrence DeStefano and go to jail rather than turn over what he’s got.

If I’m all wet, let me know. I was wrong once back in ’58 and I still hear about it on occasion.

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

Now Anti-ALPR license plate covers are an idea I could get behind. So it figures the surveillance state has gotten in front of it.

[Via Alan Chwick]

A Frostback’s Case for Disarming YOU

In any case, in what follows, I argue (I strongly believe, soundly) that not only (i) owning, carrying, and/or using guns, but also (ii) The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, and (iii) their necessary consequence, gun violence, are all rationally unjustified and immoral on broadly Kantian ethical grounds, and that therefore, (iv) Gun Abolitionism is rationally justified, morally right, and what we ought to do, by means of (iva) repealing The 2 nd Amendment, and then (ivb) universally banning owning, carrying, and/or using guns. [More]

Thank you! I was afraid not enough gun owners would take this seriously.

Funny, he should represent himself as an ideogical follower of Kant:

Kant called for the gradual abolition of standing armies (professional armies maintained in peacetime) and for their replacement by citizen militias.

What a hoser, eh?

Oh, and look at this:

Just send money. I have to laugh at juxtaposing these “serious” academic citations against the memory of the letter from the dean telling me to shape up or ship out.

[Via Alan Chwick]

On ‘Terrible Implements’

U.S. Second Amendment: Means ALL Weapons & ZERO Infringements [More]

Or as Tench Coxe put it:

Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American…

I’ve been following Alan Chwick’s work for a long time. Have you?

His insights, including when combined with those of Paul Gallant, Sherry Gallant, and his recently deceased writing partner Joanne D. Eisen, have been invaluable learning tools for me.

UPDATE

This comment is worthy of consideration.

I know that when I pointed out something that concerned me, Alan told me “Feel free to call it out. Open dialog is always good.”

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