This is exactly what the framers had in mind when they spoke of a "well-regulated militia." It is also not at all like carrying around the security blanket you clutched when you were a toddler, screaming and wetting yourself at the very notion of anyone trying to take it away or even asking you to leave it at home. We repeat, it is nothing like this, for reasons that will come to us. more ›

The MSNBC has a piece up today about how minors hunting sans supervision is legal in 21 states, with the jumping-off point being the case of young Tyler Kales, recently sentenced to thirty days in juvie for mistaking Skagit County hiker Pamela Almli for a bear and shooting her in the head, killing her instantly. So many things wrong with this story: the fact that the then-fourteen-year old was armed with only the supervision of his sixteen-year-old brother; that the two were out huntin' in the fog; and that hunting near hiking areas is a-okay and doesn't require any signage to that effect. more ›

Two weeks after a gunman at Folklife injured three people, Mayor Greg Nickels announced his plan to ban guns from all city-owned property. Yesterday, Wash. State Attorney General Rob McKenna (defending his office against challenger John Ladenburg in November's election) released an official legal opinion concluding that Nickels does not have the authority to order the prohibition. more ›

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. more ›

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Seattlest hopes that the mayor is paying a lot of attention at the gun control summit he's attending right now in New York. Greg, you're not on vacation. Nickels and a dozen other mayors are meeting with Bloomberg in NYC to share notes and listen to a few gun control experts. It sounds like Seattle's big contribution will be the idea of a regional database of gun dealers. Databases, as you intrinsically know as a Seattle resident, can solve anything. more ›