[TWohlford]

Such lists are good in theory... but not in practice.

1. Criminals are notorious for simply skipping out w/o notifying anyone of their new addy.

2. Our sex offender list has prisoners currently in prison on it... meaning that my zip code looks like Perv Central since there is a maximum security prison nearby.

3. Here we have tons of cases where a high school boy, age 18, gets his long-time girlfriend pregnant. The parents press charges, and presto! he's a sex offender, and is on the list. Ditto for those peeing in public at the local NASCAR races.

If they could fix those things then I'm game. However, right now it's another good intention thing that doesn't work.

[Nitro]

The sidearm, the automatic pistol worn in that open holster on the policeman's hip, is there to protect the ones who think to attack him. "But surely," you would argue patiently, "..you've got that a bit backwards"

First, police officers do not call it a sidearm, military officers do.

I live in NYC and cops around here call it as a last resort.

Actually I live in Brooklyn and we have the best cops 68 Pct. and the best firemen, Rescue 2!

I love America, but I feel safe in Brooklyn, New York!!

[datura]

Good article, well written. But don't count our old Soviet foes out yet. They now have proxies - starting wtih al Qaida, but also including China and North Korea. (Venzuela, Brazil, Spain, etc.) We've got a lot of convincing or a lot of killing to do before it's safe in this world, and we should start by cleaning our own home now.

The American left is the enabling entity for nearly all anti-Americanism in the world. If we crush them here, we crush them everywhere.

[Mad Dawg]

Sorry: severe need to pick nits here.

... the automatic pistol worn in that open holster on the policeman's hip, ...

• It is NOT an automatic pistol. (I wish!) It's a semi -automatic, darn it. One round and no more per pull of the trigger.
• Open holster? Not in any competent department. My holster is level three security. Yeah, it's "open" in the sense that you can see it's got a pistol in it, but that's the only sense

Okay. nits picked. I feel better now.