And of course he will get away with it.

This time at an Alabama mall on Thanksgiving night. The legally-armed young man was gunned down by cop while fleeing his attackers.

By far the greatest factor that would affect my decision to carry a concealed weapon is how a cop would react when he found out. Some states require that police be immediately informed of the concealed weapon. How would the cop react in the moment? Would some primitive part of his brain coax him into taking this opportunity to commit murder, knowing he would get away scot-free?

There clearly must be an immediate reevaluation of the relationship between police and our Constitutional right to carry a self-defense weapon. More people than ever are exercising their right to carry a means of defense, and it is clear that many officers have no idea how to deal with it.

The Federalist: World War 1 was the beginning of America’s foolish foreign intervention habit

Also The Federalist: Amazon HQ will cost New Yorkers $61,000 per employee

TAC: Trump defends the indefensible in Yemen

Reason: UK anti-terrorism efforts are terrifying to anyone who favors free speech

FEE: Resisting the human impulse to make saints and witches Ed: I’ve always wondered what it is about us that compels us to either worship or burn others.

The Hill: Another decade lost to the global war on drugs

Techdirt: Court to law enforcement: You can’t seize a house for 15 hours before obtaining a warrant

Mises: Latin America has fewer guns, but more crime

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: A woman’s right to a free market

Antiwar.com: The case against Wikileaks is a crisis for the First Amendment. Ed: The First Amendment’s primary purpose is to protect speech criticizing the powerful. Non-controversial speech doesn’t require protection. It is the “controversial” criticism of every aspect of our rulers that requires robust protection, including Wikileaks. I’ve debated internally whether the First Amendment protections extends to instances of personal insults with the intent to provoke: example: walking up to someone’s wife and making lewd and vicious remarks about her. If you get knocked out, were your free speech rights violated? The First Amendment was consecrated at a time when duels were still fought over insults and slights, so I wonder how far the Founders believed the First Amendment truly extended. Disclaimer: I am not advocating for the return of the duel, and I am not advocating for physical violence.

Tulsa World: Responding to security concerns, Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority removes addresses of growers, processors from online database

A step toward liberty: OMMA approves more than 12,000 medical marijuana licenses

Kansas City Star: Medical marijuana or your gun? In Missouri, you’ll have to make a choice

FEE: How driverless cars will help Americans escape police oppression

The Guardian: “It can rewire people’s brains”: how traumatized veterans turned to underground MDMA therapy

Reason: Are the FDA’s E-cigarette restrictions legal?

Unz: Thanking vets for their “service”. Why?

Futurism: A super-spicy plant could help end the opioid crisis

Daily Mail: Why 536 AD was the worst year to be alive

GLENN GREENWALD: Prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing documents poses grave threat to press freedom

TAC: Rand Paul: Saudi Arabia is number one at spreading terror

The Week: The paranoid delusions behind America’s foreign policy

Also TAC: When the “good guy with a gun” is black Ed: There’s a good case to be made for taking guns away from cops. They have plenty of non-lethal options.  And for those who didn’t hear much about the twist in the Trader Joe’s shooting, the employee was shot to death by a cop who fired wildly into the crowded grocery store in an attempt to kill the suspect.

And this from Techdirt: Appeals court: No immunity for shooting a man who had his hands up and twice said he surrendered

Mises: A White House press pass has nothing to do with the First Amendment

Reuters: Pentagon fails its first-ever audit

Reason: The postal service lost $3.9 billion last year

Quillette: The free speech crisis on campus is worse than you think

FEE: What the overpopulation pessimists got wrong (and still get wrong today) Ed: The overpopulation fear is so terrifying because it seems so plausible to those who don’t understand economies of scale, division of labor, and the revolutionary power of innovation. The latest Avengers film even attempted to humanize the villain Thanos by giving him supposedly benevolent intentions behind his desire to kill half the universe. Because the universe is too crowded. Of course. Hitler, of course, used the fear of an overpopulated Germany to gain support for the dehumanization. The true threat is the politicized fear of population growth.

Nooooooo: RIP William Goldman, creator of beloved film, The Princess Bride

National Interest: Veterans are not honored by forever war

DAVID FRENCH: Another police shooting raises hard questions about police restraint Ed: Bystanders allegedly began immediately yelling that the armed guard was, in fact, the person who saved the day, right when police arrived on the scene. The police killed Jemel anyway, despite his uniform with “security” branded right on the front, and also despite the fact that other cops were already on the scene, handling the situation like adults. What explains this other than systematically poor hiring practices, where the applicants selected are the ones most eager to kill someone? It reminds me of DiCaprio’s line in The Departed: “They signed up to use their weapons.” Being a cop in the U.S. today means having wide scope for murdering someone under the guise of, “He was reaching for his wasteband”, or “I feared for my life”.

Wall Street Journal: To make a cup of coffee, it takes more than a village

The Intercept: Google’s “smart city of surveillance” faces new resistance in Toronto

Techdirt: Nice work, EU: You’ve given Google an excuse to offer a censored search engine in China

Reason: HQ2: How Amazon made governments do their bidding for free

Also Reason: Stossel: Why some capitalists are the worst enemies of capitalism

FEE: America’s $21.7 trillion national debt is becoming a “threat to society”, National Security adviser says

Mises: The case against Pharma patent monopolies

TAC: Bolton uses WW1-era rhetoric to promote a cruel Iran policy

Forbes: Surging wealth inequality is a happy sign that life is becoming much more convenient

High Times: LA County sheriff’s deputy allegedly faked raid to rob cannabis facility

Activist Post: National facial recognition database to use loyalty rewards to identify American shoppers

Motherboard: It’s amateur hour in the world of spyware and victims will pay the price

…and murders the black security guard who subdued a drunken gunman at a bar.

Mises: The tragedy of America’s entry into World War 1

Antiwar.com: U.S. post-9/11 wars have killed 500,000 people, according new study out of Brown

Reason: The FDA plan to ban flavored E-cigarettes from most stores is unfair and dangerous

TAC: When “America First” becomes negotiable

The Week: How Saudi Arabia became America’s ally

FEE: F.A. Harper: The greatest threat to liberty is the idea that democracy guarantees freedom

Cato: The ACA’s pre-existing condition regulations lose support when public learns its cost

The Free Thought Project: Facebook is aiding the police state by purging police accountability pages

Activist Post: Tesla technology has been revived

News6: Tulsa medical marijuana dispensary runs out of stock on first day

The Hill: CIA’s ‘surveillance state’ is operating against us all

Techdirt: New York lawmakers want social media history to be included in gun background checks

Antiwar.com: Israel and the trillion-dollar 2005-2018 US intelligence budget

FEE: Venezuela reveals the natural progression of ‘democratic socialism’

Mises: How so many bad ideas manage to win on election day

High Times: California: One year after cannabis legalization

USA Today: FDA approves painkiller 1,000 times more powerful than morphine

RCS: Ripples in space-time could reveal the shape of wormholes

TomDispatch: Pentagon socialism

The Federalist: 9 years into Common Core, test scores are down, indoctrination up

TAC: The mad rush to college is killing our children’s entrepreneurial spirit: “Entrepreneurship, of course, requires time devoted to imagining and dreaming—time today’s students simply don’t have. Many spend every minute trying to build a résumé that will usher them into the best colleges. In The Coddling of the American Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and former Foundation for Individual Rights in Education president Greg Lukianoff argue that, for the last two decades, parents have overscheduled their children to their detriment. To make sure college applications shine, they fill up kids’ time with supervised activities, eroding the hours they need to enjoy playing and simply being young. When you have school, then piano recital, then soccer practice, then choir, then homework, then bed, it’s tough to find time to go skateboarding with your friends. That isn’t a good thing.”

FEE: Stop shaming people who don’t vote Ed: The sheer amount of sanctimoniousness, ignorance, and schoolmarmishness over voting today has been ridiculous. Do these people actually care about ending war? About reducing the prison population? About making everyone’s lives easier and more free? Not at all. The sole issue they care about is that their team wins the game.

Oh HO HO: America’s wars are a non-factor in today’s midterm elections Ed: The vulgar preening over having voted, and ensuring that everyone knew the deed had taken place, reaches absurd levels among the high-income crowd in Norman, as I quickly found out today. There seems to have been an unspoken contest to see who could place their comically lame “I Voted!” sticker as close to their face as possible, without it actually touching. I’m surprised that some of these people don’t actually place it on their forehead, or right between their eyes. “Oh, you voted huh?” “Yes! It’s the most important election in our lifetimes!”, responds someone long past the age where they should know better than to actually believe it. Engaging in mindless conspicuous consumption is apparently next on their list after engaging in their equally mindless act in the voting booth, and my place of employment could not be a more perfect destination. As I take their cash, I idly wish another group of Porsche Cayenne-driving Baby Boomers would breeze in through the door, high on the fumes of counterfeit democracy, and engage the current customers in some meaningless-yet-heated political discussion, quickly devolving into a primitive slap-fight among the elders of two warring tribes. It would almost make voting worth it.

I do not understand the compulsion to make oneself into a flying monkey for a political party, but for the vast majority it appears to be high on the list of basic human instincts.

Now HERE is some real news: MDMA therapy eliminated PTSD in 76% of patients. Ed: This is news worthy of coverage and disk space in your brain, not the meaningless midterms. Psychedelics are a pharmaceutical and mental health revolution in utero. The pharmaceutical industry will cease to exist in its current form once these compounds are made widely and easily available.

Reason: Missouri becomes 32nd medical marijuana state

EFF: Spot the surveillance: A VR experience for keeping an eye on Big Brother

TAC: Jeff Bezos put the Pentagon on his Monopoly board

Common Dreams: Veterans call on active-duty troops to refuse orders to deploy to the border

Consortium News: Break-in attempted at Assange’s residence in Ecuador Embassy

The Federalist: China developing world’s most massive population surveillance system

JUSTIN RAIMONDO: Whatever happened to the Russia-gate scandal?

FEE: Not too big to fail: Why Facebook’s long reign may be coming to an end

High Times: Psychedelic use linked to increased well-being, says pioneering study

CERN: New anti-gravity experiments begin at CERN