Snowflakes in Hell

… self-defense whacko.  Bitter helps AHSA decorate their offices a bit.

Looks like a Pittsburgh man was arrested for openly carrying, based on a Pittsburgh ordinance that’s pretty clearly unlawful.  Open carry is forbidden without a license in a City of the First Class (i.e. Philadelphia), but that’s actually part of Pennsylvania Law, not a city ordinance.  Pittsburgh apparently decided it needed such a law too, and just passed it, in violation of the proscription of the state legislature.  I guess they don’t like the fact that under state law, Pittsburgh isn’t a first class city.

Tam points out that half of our Heller dissenters were put on the bench by Republicans.  By any measure, shifting the federal courts more toward the center has actually been one of the Republican party’s most stellar achievement, and even here, the best we can really say is “Well, Republicans tend to get it right about half the time.”  Really, the federal judiciary should be owned by conservatives right now, but it isn’t.  Yet moving the court rightward has been an accomplishment.

Republicans: even doing our best work, we’re still pretty damned incompetent.

They say a picture is worth 1000 words.  Well, Breda has a picture that I think basically defines women’s empowerment.  That’s one women who’s not going to be satisfied wearing the hijab for long.  This is the kind of cross-cultural pollination that will end up freeing individuals from the burdens of their cultures.

The principles of The Enlightenment, that are manifested in this nation’s founding documents, are among the most subversive and radical ideas that have ever been put to paper by man.  They are more powerful than entire armies.  Plant the seed, and they will grow, and there will be nothing that traditional societal power structures can do to stand in their way.

Morton Grove has joined Wilmette in suspending its gun ban.

Morton Grove Mayor Richard Krier said the village would comply with the law.

The Heller dominoes are falling.  One thing I hadn’t considered in all of this is that many of these Chicago suburbs have far less financial resources than Mayor Daley has at his disposal.  These towns may have been happy to maintain handgun bans as a symbolic gesture, as “an expression of the kind of community we want to be.”  But when it comes to actually spending tax dollars to fight a case in federal court, potentially all the way to the United States Supreme Court, I think they might just decide to fold rather than fight.

UPDATE: More here.