Lost Cause: Mayor Daley's lawsuit against gun manufacturers was tossed out of court. All the parents of thugs and criminals should breath easy. If Daley had prevailed (he never would have), and the courts had allowed people to be held responsible via such indirect and tenuous links, imagine the how many others could have been held responsible. A lawyer for the small retail gunshop sums it up:

"There's a certain element of personal liability and personal responsibility that hopefully people take away from this: You can't do something wrong and then claim somebody else made me do it," Howard said.

Now can we get back to actually holding that tiny minority of repeat offenders responsible for the actual carnage they do inflict?

Update: Not a good week for the anti-gun crowd in Illinois. I missed this story in the local news, but another blogger alerts me to the fact that I can now violate Chicago's anti-handgun law without fear of prosecution as long as I kill an intruder with it in my home or business.