Flutterby™! :

Frank passed along a link to this scary article. I don't want to start the gun control wars. It happens that I'm anti gun control, but I don't own a projectile weapon right now (Well, aside from my Nerf™ Ballzooka and chain fed thingie). On the other hand the rhetoric of knee jerk politicians against guns and free speech and other freedoms makes me very scared. In the wake of the shootings in LA unscrupulous politicians are trying to leverage the incident for political gain and increased spending on issues that would do nothing towards stopping the sorts of incidents that they're so callously using, and we have notes like this:

[Lee Baca, LA county Sherriff] "said he thinks it should be a civil offense to offend the "psyche of society" by making hateful comments about people from another race or religion."