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July 12, 2004
Blogs, power laws, and assault weapons
Okay, this is a slight off-topic post. Yes, it's political, but it also has interesting implications for those who like to study how blogs are affecting journalism, politics, and culture, and there's even something for info designers. Tom Mauser has enlisted blogs to help recruit signers for his petition against assault weapons. It's a personal thing for Tom; his 15-year-old son Daniel Mauser was one of 13 people killed at Columbine High School. For a knee-jerk, left-wing (I say that like that's a bad thing :) perspective, see Ariana Huffington's column in Salon last month: Attention, al-Qaida sleeper cells, domestic terrorists, school shooters, David Koresh wannabes and bloodthirsty lunatics everywhere: Be sure to mark Sept. 13 in your day planners because -- thanks to President Bush and his GOP pals in Congress -- your murderous missions are about to get a whole lot easier. Here's the little something extra for the info design fans...a cool map showing geographic support by bloggers for Tom's petition: I didn't figure that there would be enough IDblog readers who'd sign to get me over the tail of the power law curve, but feel free to sign on kottke's page if you want to sign with the head of the curve :).
Comments
I just would like to take the time to say that I agree with not allowing the ban to be extended. In you brief article you mention that the terrorist and other could legally buy a rapid fire killing machines. You should look into the law before writing such articles. The ban does not make it illegal to own rapid fire firearms or to purchase them. It just makes it more expensive. Either case you still have to get a federal firearms license to own or buy a fully or rapid fire weapon. Those laws don't change if the ban goes away or stays. The asault weapon ban refers to cosmetics of a firearm and high capacity magazines, not a fast it can shoot. -- Posted by on September 8, 2004 02:23 AM
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