No Reason for Crazies to Have Guns
I used to like Reason magazine. It was a watchdog for government overreach like eminent domain abuse (think forcing out homeowners to build a shopping center) and government silliness (like cities disallowing cucumber plants in the front yard). Even the comments were clever. Then they started harping on pot, hookers and Bitcoin a few years ago. OK, you can make a case against the drug war, but hookers and Bitcoin are (I hope) rather fringe issues that aren't going to ensnare ordinary Americans going about their lawful business in a web of fines and legal proceedings. Lately, though, they've followed other media lemmings into the Sea of Perpetual Outrage. Progressive outlets see Nazis everywhere; conservative outlets see murdered babies everywhere; Reason wants anarchy for all. Maybe this makes sense when you constantly report about police officers who shoot family dogs. (Of course, Reason didn't cover this one or this one .) Living in Indianapolis, where quite a ...