More from the UK:

The terrifying 4-inch key fob gun used to shoot clubber ‘in row over girls’

At first glance it looks like any other keyring used for automatically unlocking car doors.

But this innocent-looking key fob hides a deadly purpose.

Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand it is actually a double-barrelled gun capable of wounding and even killing a man.

The terrifying new escalation of Britain’s gun culture was revealed in a landmark court case in which a clubber who shot a man with the weapon was jailed for nine years.

These fob guns were made in Bulgaria as small emergency flare guns for life jackets but have been converted to fire .25 caliber bullets.

My pool picture ban over paedophile fears

An amateur photographer was told she could not take snaps of an empty paddling pool because she might be a paedophile.

Taking pictures of an empty swimming pool means you might be a pedophile just like taking pictures of kids tearing up your neighborhood means you might be assaulting them.

Sad sad sad.

Not coincidentally, the Gotham City of the two most recent Batman films is based on Chicago, not New York City. This makes some sense, because Chicago residents are severely restricted in their methods of self defense. Masked vigilantes might be the only answer.

Photographing thugs ‘is assault’, police tell householder snapping proof of anti-social behaviour

It’s the Daily Mail, but given the direction of things in Britain these days I’m buying it:

David Green, 64, and his neighbours had been plagued by the youths from a nearby comprehensive school for months, and was advised by their headmaster to identify them so action could be taken.

But when Mr Green left his £1million London flat to take photographs of the gang, who were aged around 17, he said one threatened to kill him while another called the police on his mobile.

And he claimed that a Police Community Support Officer sent to the scene promptly issued a warning that taking pictures of youths without permission was illegal, and could lead to a charge of assault.

When he started taking pictures, one of them called the cops. That’s something right there, law-breakers asking the law for help. But the law sided with them.

Nothing to laugh about. This sort of thing is the natural next step after the right to defend oneself is outlawed. Note that I wrote that the right is outlawed, not removed. Big difference.

One thing worth laughing about is the Daily Mail’s alt text for the image they included in the story:

Picture of yobs taken by David Green

Why is it that Green is apparently being treated like the yob?

Seems to be a pretty unreasonable situation, but the reaction is good.

Anti-Gun Outdoor Writer to Run for NRA Board

Sebastian on Pat Wray:

Needless to say, he’d be a long shot.

Franklinton, Ohio:

An 18-year-old man armed with a BB gun was fatally shot while trying to rob the residents of a Franklinton home yesterday afternoon, police said.

Police arrested his two alleged accomplices, one of whom was his brother, and charged them with murder for taking part in a crime that resulted in his death.

The new Ohio castle doctrine law doesn’t take effect until September. The dead intruder apparently held the BB gun to the head of the homeowner’s girlfriend.

Don’t commit crimes. If you do, don’t do it with BB guns.

xkcd is awesome.

Please stop breaking into my car:

UPDATE: The image I had linked to was pulled (obviously all the traffic I sent swamped their servers) so I found it elsewhere and posted here. Thanks to the reader for the tip that it was down.

How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds

The “Flesh-and-Blood Defense”:

As officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on the government’s side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast, century-old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have no constitutional authority to bring people to trial. The defendants also believed that a legal distinction could be drawn between their name as written on their indictment and their true identity as a “flesh and blood man.”

Don’t forget the incidents of gun deaths in Baltimore.