Texas Castle Law
There’s a long piece in the Dallas Morning News covering all sorts of angles and examining whether people are getting shot in Dallas because of the law change. I’m not going to go through the whole thing because I refuse to read past the extremely entertaining first paragraph:
The shootings came fast, a bang-bang-bang cluster of cases starting in early autumn that quickly had police, prosecutors and the media wondering about the sudden impact of Texas’ new castle law.
Police. Prosecutors. The Media?
No shortage of self-importance in journalism, I suppose.
Liberty on January 21st 2008 in Boomsticks!
AlanDP responded on 21 Jan 2008 at 3:51 pm #
Also a clever and barely subliminal reference to vigilantism.
Liberty responded on 21 Jan 2008 at 5:11 pm #
Oh yeah. Journalists love, “taking the law into their own hands,” just as much as “shootouts in the streets,” and “teflon-coated magic phantom bullets covered in KY jelly that slip through body armor like warm butter.” Or maybe that last one was a teeny bit of a stretch.