Female residents shoots would-be burglar in south Toledo | wtol.com

See? Now you are feeling better. Great stories with happy endings always cheer good people up.

Hat Tip @ShootyMcBeard

Unless you are Taliban and can get taxpayer-funded ammo for free:

Hat Tip Royko

Reader Andy L sent me this:

Last Thursday, the ISP confirmed that their FOID (Firearm Owners Identification) card portal had been hit with a cyber attack, and that about 2,000 Illinoisans who have FOID cards may have had their information compromised:

“Out of necessity, some of the online account parameters put in place for ease of use and convenience years ago have been appropriately modified and tightened to prevent unauthorized users from attempting to further expand the extent of the identify fraud.”

The ISP news release points out that they’re reaching out to those 2,000 FOID card holders who may have had their personal info stolen.

Illinois’ FOID Card System Hit By Cyber Attack

Besides the obvious info required to steal identities, this breach has provided a nice sexy shopping list for burglars to go find themselves some free guns, courtesy of the Illinois government.  Did you notice the “parameters” explanation? It sounds like they had some 1990s security running or maybe their access password was “password 1”

Anyway, if you needed yet another reason why any kind of firearm registration is dumb and dangerous, you can add this to the always lengthening list.

Sunset watching? Verbotten!

Australia is banning people from going outside entirely. Watching the sunset? Nah mate you can’t do that. pic.twitter.com/NhH7RYn0Kw

— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) August 20, 2021

And, of course the serfs are there to back up the master:

Nobody should be looking for the sunset, we have a curfew in Victoria and by not following the rules, covid will spread and our lockdown will be extended.

— Spectator (@rrp454) August 20, 2021

I’m in Sydney. Yes, NSW & VIC are in lockdown. Yes it sucks!! But for god’s sake no one “is banning people from going outside entirely”. That’s complete ?. There’s a curfew from 9pm-5am in Vic & parts of Sydney. That’s it. Still bloody awful I know.

— Phillipa Coleman (@ColemanPhillipa) August 20, 2021

The only good news is that they are not New Zealand.

New Zealand enters nationwide lockdown over one Covid case – BBC News

I have read comments about Italy ever so slowly taking the side of the citizens rather than criminals when it comes to the law. Unfortunately, it is too common in Europe for the Government to be on the side of the criminal and harshly against the citizens (re: Tony Martin) that an actual law stating that use of force inside the home or workplace in self defense is properly legal is something momentous.

The following is browser-translated from the original article:

Law no. 36 of 26 April 2019 on “Amendments to the Criminal Code and other provisions on legitimate defence”(OJ no. 102 of 3 May 2019) was published in the Official Gazette.

Legitimate defense
A sort of presumption of “domestic” legitimate defense is introduced: in the event of a violation of domicile – and every place where commercial, professional or entrepreneurial activity is expressly equated with the domicile – the defense is considered “always” proportionate to the offense; the provision obviously aims to eliminate any residual room for discretion on the part of the judge in assessing the proportionality between the defense and offense;

Furthermore, within the walls of the home and in the workplaces indicated above, those who reject the intrusion by one or more people “put in place with violence or threat of use of weapons or other means of physical compulsion” are always considered in a condition of legitimate defense.

Legittima difesa: la riforma in Gazzetta (altalex.com)

Well done Italy!

Hat Tip Asociación Nacional del Arma de España – ANARMA