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In a modern-day duel, a restaurant owner and a Colorado security guard simultaneously drew their stun guns and simultaneously zapped each other during a weekend spat over an illegally parked van. The incident is raising questions over whether private citizens should be allowed to buy stun guns to protect themselves. The fight began on Saturday night when Harvey Epstein confronted two private security guards for clamping a metal boot on a company van parked outside his Mexican restaurant in Boulder, Colo. The situation escalated when Mr. Epstein putted out a pair of bolt cutters in an apparent attempt to remove...

One of the benefits of living today is having access to so much information. And one of the advantages of this information is learning that, in many respects, the people we elect to govern aren’t any better than most of us. Indeed, I could be coaxed into contending that a lot of them are worse. Some of those characters, even with their taxpayer-funded publicity machines turning out sanitized versions of their records, have shown themselves to be dumber than, pettier than, wickeder than and crookeder than the average American. Not to mention nastier than, which brings us to the Honorable...