Comment on California idiocy: "State Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, has introduced a bill to require all semi-automatic handguns to make microscopic indentations on all shell casings for identification. Supporters of the bill contend that the gun feature will allow the police to catch more criminals. Opponents believe the markings could easily be adulterated by sanding or filing the firing pins, thereby making the law academic. My take is that it's just another attempt by gun-control advocates to hector gun makers and owners and to make ownership of a weapon more expensive. If the bill is passed, I predict it will have no statistically significant impact on the crime clearance rate.


Louisiana victims shoot back. Thugs flee: "A group of men fired bullets into a cluster of children at a birthday party on Lash Street on Saturday night, injuring a Shreveport woman in a shooting that police believe was retaliation for an earlier gunfight in the neighborhood. The woman, who was in her mid to late 20s, was taken to LSU Hospital in Shreveport with non-life threatening injuries. Police didn't immediately identify the woman. Police were dispatched to the intersection of Lash and Linwood streets just before 9 p.m. after getting reports of a gunfight that sent nearly 100 children scattering from the neighborhood block party. By the time police arrived at the scene, the shooters had fled on foot and all of the children at the party had cleared from the streets. Witnesses told police that the group of men stood at the corner of Lash and Linwood streets and opened fire on people attending the party. While ducking a hail of bullets, some people at the party pulled out guns and started firing back, police said. Police have identified some suspects in the shooting but wouldn't release any information."