J.D. Tuccille on Teaching His Son To Break the Law

In
1858, hundreds of residents of Oberlin and Wellington, Ohio — many
of them students and faculty at Oberlin College — surrounded
Wadsworth's Hotel, in Wellington, in which law enforcement officers
and slavehunters held a fugitive slave named John Price, under the
authority of the Fugitive Slave Act. After a brief standoff, the
armed crowd stormed the hotel and overpowered the captors. Price
was freed and transported to safety in Canada. J.D. Tuccille,
Managing Editor of Reason 24/7, knows these details because his son
recently borrowed from the library The Price of Freedom, a
book about the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, as the incident is
called. He and his wife used it as a starting point for telling
their seven-year-old why they don't expect him to obey the
law — that laws and the governments that pass them are often evil.
They expect him, instead, to stand up for his rights and those of
others, and to do good, even if that means breaking the law.

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3D Printing Will Make Gun Control Laws Irrelevant, J.D. Tuccille Tells RT America

Yesterday, RT America ran a
report on the impact of 3D printing on the debate over firearms and
gun control laws. RT's Marina Portnaya interviewed me for the
report, and I told her
what I've written

before: 3D printing has the ability to decentralize
manufacturing to the DIY level and thereby render legal
restrictions irrelevant. If prohibited or restricted items can be
created in the privacy of your home or office, the law doesn't
matter. We also discussed chemical printing and CNC machines, but
as is often the case, only a brief bit on 3D printing made it into
the report, There's no
embeddable version available The embedded video is below, or
you can see it
here. My contribution begins at the 3:00 mark.

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J.D. Tuccille Discusses Culture War on HuffPost Live

Remember the 1990s, when Pat
Buchanan went mano a mano with Barney Frank in a duel to
the death over the drection of American society? No, neither do I.
Yet the supposed "culture war" between liberals and conservatives
keeps resurfacing as a concept, if only as a convenient way to
frame evolving views on social issues in a partisan red/blue way
sufficiently simplified so that even political journalists and
government officials can understand. I
appeared on HuffPost Live as part of a panel discussing just
where the so-called culture war has taken us. Mostly, in a
direction of greater tolerance and personal liberty, I would say,
on social issues from gay marriage to guns. On economics ... well
... that's up in the air.

On the panel, hosted by Ricky Camilleri, I was joined by Mark
Glaze, Director, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Matt Lewis of The
Daily Caller and The Week, and Vickie Henry, Senior
Attorney at the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders.

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