Reason.tv’s Ted Balaker sat down with Eugene Volokh, professor of law at the UCLA School of Law and founder of The Volokh Conspiracy, to discuss gun rights, free expression, and the Nanny State. Find out what Volokh thinks the biggest threats to free expression are, and whether today’s muzzlers come mostly from the left or right. Volokh also explains what the landmark Supreme Court case, DC vs. Heller, has done to gun control and whether he agrees with the “more guns, less crime” thesis. Other topics include: media bias and gun rights, Alabama’s prohibition on selling sex toys, and whether judges can be nannies. Interview by Ted Balaker. Shot by Alex Manning and Hawk Jensen. Edited by Paul Detrick. Approximately nine-and-a-half minutes.
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Do our legal rights ultimately come from a god — specifically, the Christian god? No. Guidance on apostrophe use: theoatmeal.com 😉 Link to 1tmoch’s video “Relativism and Homos”: www.youtube.com Intro music: “My Rights, Your Rights” by Mad Professor
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Castrate Knut, say animal rights activists
Animal rights activists are demanding Berlin’s ursine celebrity, Knut the polar bear, to be castrated. Such a fate seems like the unkindest cut of all for a polar bear who has not only just…
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