Free Republic

A pizza cutter-toting lunatic posed as an FBI agent in a botched bid to spring Luigi Mangione out of his notorious Brooklyn jail, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Minnesota native Mark Anderson approached the intake area at the Metropolitan Detention Center and made the head-scratching claim that he had an order “signed by a judge” to free the accused cold-blooded killer, who is being held without bail, according to court records and law enforcement sources. When asked to show his credentials, Anderson allegedly took out a Minnesota driver’s license, and said that he had weapons in his bag.

Written in an age in which minutemen rose to dress and fight at a moment’s notice, the Second Amendment was no doubt motivated by a young nation’s concern for its own safety and stability. But now, when the United States is protected by the most powerful security forces on the globe, the Second Amendment is neither relevant nor useful. Rather, it has become an impediment to vital public policy, and it should be repealed and replaced with nuanced federal legislation. Despite the controversy surrounding the Second Amendment, arguments about its relevancy have not surfaced in the Supreme Court since 1939,...