THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† Hunting Hokies (“The Other Shoe Drops,” first item): AZ State Senator Karen S. Johnson (R-Mesa) has sponsored a bill allowing adults aged 21 years and older who have a concealed weapons permit to pack heat at public colleges and universities, because she is convinced that the deadly shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University could have been ended with fewer lives lost had an armed student or professor dropped the gunman in his tracks. In AZ, people are allowed to carry a gun as long as it is clearly visible, but even with a permit concealed weapons are usually prohibited at malls, hospitals, restaurants and other public establishments. The New York Times reports:
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a Washington nonprofit organization, said 15 states were considering legislation that would authorize or make it easier for people to carry guns on school or college campuses under certain conditions. Those states include Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Virginia, according to the center, but it considers the Arizona proposal particularly egregious because it would not only allow students and faculty to carry such weapons, but staff members as well.
The critics of such laws predict that they would cause more problems, including making it hard for the police to sort a dangerous gunman from a crowd of others with guns. They also argue that the guns would make it easier for people barely out of adolescence, or perhaps emotionally troubled, to respond lethally to typical campus frustrations like poor grades or failed romances.
Perhaps if The Stiletto types r-e-a-l--s-l-o-w-l-y gun control advocates will finally understand that although Virginia Tech and NIU were both “gun free zones” neither Seung-Hui Cho nor Steven Kazmierczak were deterred from bringing firearms to the school to kill as many unarmed people as they could, and that in both cases – in all such cases – the police get to the scene too late to have to worry about distinguishing the crazed gunman from the armed hero or heroine who did their job for them.
† Well-Chosen Words (third item): U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno levied sanctions of more than $29,000 on HTFC CEO Aaron Wider and his attorney Joseph R. Ziccardi after Wilder repeatedly dropped the “F bomb” during a deposition “to intimidate opposing counsel by maintaining a persistently hostile demeanor.” Ziccardi argued that “Wider suffers from a mental condition that explains his conduct and should be considered a ‘mitigating factor’ in imposing any sanctions,” reports The Legal Intelligencer. The judge noted that Wider's doctor was never called to testify, and that Ziccardi did not comply with a court order to provide copies of Wilder’s medical records to opposing counsel.
† Oh, Brother!: Long Island bookkeeper Anthony Galasso, who stole more than $4 million from his brother's law firm, Galasso, Langione & Botter, pleaded guilty to 22 charges, reports New York Law Journal. In court Galasso admitted taking money from client escrow accounts and spending it for trips on a private jet, a luxury car and tickets to games and shows. Galasso will be sentenced on April 28th.
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