July 28, 2011

Random Thought for Thursday 7/28/11

[... it's the last (in awhile) for this month's occasional series ...]

ONLY IN CHICAGO ... are spray paint cans, little liquor bottles and guns banned (well, guns were banned until lately) in order to guide human behavior -- and ... ONLY IN CHICAGO is the news media full of stories of gang taggers, drunks misbehaving and shooting after shooting after shooting. Kind of makes that libertarian thing look more and more attractive all the time (if only we all could be trusted to uphold a social contract of sorts).

BANNED -- SPRAY PAINT CANS!:
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/04/us/justice-stevens-allows-chicago-to-ban-spray-paint.html

BANNED -- LITTLE LIQUOR BOTTLES!:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-08-05/news/0208050152_1_liquor-bottles-stores-and-taverns

BANNED -- GUNS (well, now UNBANNED)!:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/29/national/main6629306.shtml

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