LA Professor publicly joins push to end cash bail in LA | | x Jul 31, 2023 | | | | When people get arrested, there are limits to how long they can be held without charges. There's a whole process, and part of that is the idea of cash bail. Without it, jails basically turn into revolving doors. There's little way to deter repeat offenses prior to sentencing, which takes ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | US gun ownership could be 60%, twice other estimates | | x Jul 31, 2023 | | | | We see a lot of estimates of gun ownership in this country. A popular one is how we have something like 400 million privately-held firearms in the United States compared to a population of just 330 million. That's obviously more guns than people. Yet other estimates claim fewer than a third ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | Matthew McConaughey still has a lot to learn on gun debate | | x Jul 31, 2023 | | | | Actor Matthew McConaughey was, for a while, pretty apolitical, at least by Hollywood standards. Sure, he'd toyed with the idea of running for governor of Texas, but that fizzled. Then Uvalde happened. McConaughey, a Uvalde native, decided he needed to get involved. In and of itself, that's not an awful ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | Professor suggests qualified immunity as gun control | | x Jul 31, 2023 | | | | I'm not really wild about a legal concept called qualified immunity. To some degree, it makes sense. It protects people like police officers from being sued while doing their job. Where it gets problematic is that I've seen public officials--including police officers--get away with some pretty sketchy behavior. And that brings ... [Keep Reading] | | | | | | | | |
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