California Microstamping Can Have Frightening Nationwide Repercussions.

By John Longenecker

Crime is not fought by chasing it – crime may be caught by chasing it, but such after-the-fact agony for victims of crime cannot work as well as promised when it so profoundly vexes the rights of the very people the law was sworn to serve.

This week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law the Microstamping bill on the reason that it will help police trace criminal shooters. This is not possible, of course. It is too easy to substitute, plant or to (ahem) police up one's brass at a scene such that the trail is worse than cold, it can become tragically misleading. It could too easily become a trap for any number of innocent gun owners should the technology even operate correctly, and there are many doubts about that at this hour. How are non-compliant guns safe today, but unsafe in 2010? This is a gun ban.

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By Larry Elder

This time, Cleveland.

A 14-year-old suspended high school student entered Cleveland's Success
Tech Academy, a gun in each hand, and opened fire, wounding four. Later,
we learn that the shooter's past included violent confrontations, mental
problems and at least one previous suspension. A month earlier he told a