Absence of a gun is not usually a problem:
Rockville, Md. (1968)
01/25/1969: The son, 15, murdered his mother and three
siblings with “a hatchet, knife, croquet mallet and kerchief garrot.”
Category: family
Suicide: no
Cause: unknown
Weapon: blunt, knife, hatchet, strangle[1]
Cyprus: Drones struck the British Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, pulling the U.K. and the European Union into the conflict. Cypriot press reported the strikes likely came from Hezbollah.
And Starmer had refused to give U.S. permission to use bases in the U.K. Fat lot of good it did them.
NATO air defenses shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading toward Turkish airspace, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday. It was unclear whether the missile was targeting Turkey, a NATO member state bordering Iran.
An attack on Turkyie (or however they want it spelled now) seems unlikely. Perhaps the Iranians in their confusion are just pressing red buttons at random. But such an attack requires NATO members to come to their defense.
It is fashionable to imagine that ICE is engaged in random arrests of people who it thinks are illegals. 3/3/26 KTVB:
BOISE, Idaho — Nearly a month after a father was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) near a Boise daycare, the agency is responding publicly for the first time, saying the arrest was targeted and tied to a prior conviction.
In a statement to KTVB, ICE said the man has a 2024 conviction in Boise for “theft by alteration.”
The agency described the arrest as “targeted” and said officers were never at a preschool, adding that the man was detained about 200 yards away.
The man’s family has asked that his name not be released at this time for privacy reasons.
Attorney J.J. Despain said theft by alteration typically involves switching price tags in a store to pay a lower price, rather than removing merchandise without paying.
Despain said even relatively minor offenses can draw renewed attention from immigration authorities.
“It could be, I haven’t seen this happen so much in Idaho, but in other places in the country, they really are just looking up old cases because they want to boost their numbers,” Despain said.
Or enforce the law. If you are here unlawfully, you get immediate deportation. Even if you do not break any other laws, you are here illegally and are subject to immediate deportation.
3/4/26 Reuters:
GALLE, Sri Lanka/WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday, dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.Sri Lanka's deputy foreign minister said at least 80 people were killed in the attack on the frigate IRIS Dena, which was heading back to Iranfrom an eastern Indian port.
I am sorry for the sailors aboard. I have no idea if they were conscripts or not. Unfortunately, Iran has been at war with us since 1979 and we are finally dealing with it.
According to Sec. Hegseth, this is the first submarine sinking since 1945.
Ortega v. Grisham, 148 F. 4th 1134 (10 Cir. 2025):
New Mexico enacted a law in 2024 that imposes a categorical seven-day "cooling-off" period for nearly all consumer purchases of a firearm. No matter how urgent the need, or how much physical danger a prospective buyer might be in, buyers must wait seven days before New Mexico deems them safe to carry arms. Even buyers with previous firearms background checks or security clearances are not eligible for waivers from the prohibition. In short, the law requires no individualized reason to conclude that a prospective consumer is a danger to himself or the community, nor can anyone be excused from the waiting period because of personal danger.
Asserting their rights under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, Samuel Ortega and Rebecca Scott sued the State of New Mexico to enjoin the Waiting Period Act, N.M. Stat. § 30-7-7.3. The district court declined to preliminarily enjoin the law. It found that a seven-day wait did not infringe on Second Amendment rights since the right to acquire a firearm does not impede the right to keep or bear a firearm, and, in any event, the Second Amendment tolerates cooling-off periods.
We disagree, and REVERSE and REMAND. Cooling-off periods infringe on the Second Amendment by preventing the lawful acquisition of firearms. Cooling-off periods do not fit into any historically grounded exceptions to the right to keep and bear arms, and burden conduct within the Second Amendment's scope. In this preliminary posture, we conclude that New Mexico's Waiting Period Act is likely an unconstitutional burden on the Second Amendment rights of its citizens. We also conclude the other preliminary injunction factors are met and that Plaintiffs are entitled to an injunction.
Yes, waiting period laws are modern. My knowledge confirmed in this decision is that California imposed the first waiting period law in 1923 to give police time to do a background check. If New Mexico wanted a waiting period to do that, then completion of the FBI's background check should be enough time. But really, what drives this is a belief that guns are icky and any barrier we put in the way, makes us righteous and pure. The alternative is admitting that there are people who are evil and need to be confined.
