Fatal shootings of police up from 2005-2015 average, below the 2007 and 2011 peaks; Is it drunken driving if your ‘vehicle’ is a motorized wheelchair?; Annapolis stun gun ban challenged on Second Amendment grounds; Highly recommended: ‘Guns of the Dawn,’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky; The grammar of Donald Trump tweeting ‘Thanks, Donald!’; Rogue One and the Politics of Star Wars; The real reason President Obama won’t recess-appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court;
 
The Volokh Conspiracy
 
 
Fatal shootings of police up from 2005-2015 average, below the 2007 and 2011 peaks
The number this year is 64; the 2005-2015 average is 53; the high points during that period were 70 and 73.
Is it drunken driving if your ‘vehicle’ is a motorized wheelchair?
No, says the Oregon Court of Appeals.
Annapolis stun gun ban challenged on Second Amendment grounds
The latest of several changes filed throughout the country; Anne Arundel County, where Annapolis is located, had repealed its ban three years ago, but the Annapolis one is still on the books.
 
Highly recommended: ‘Guns of the Dawn,’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Think Elizabeth Bennett goes to war.
 
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The grammar of Donald Trump tweeting ‘Thanks, Donald!’
It's "vocative self-address," it turns out.
 
Rogue One and the Politics of Star Wars
My Learn Liberty review of the new Star Wars movie and its take on political issues.
 
The real reason President Obama won’t recess-appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court
Hint: It wouldn't work. A quick constitutional law lesson.
 
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