After all the talk, press conferences and profound statements after the Newtown school massacre, Washington failed to impose sane regulation on the gun market — regulations that would not impinge on Americans' constitutional rights, but would make them safer.
But, in that spirit, we should be able to find a way to accommodate the strong desire in many parts of the country for easy access to firearms with sane regulation of the kinds of weapons that make it easiest for crazy people to create mass slaughter.
Responding to Bruce Buschel's post about mining salt from the sea: I just thought I would point out to all those that complain and moan about how the government has their hands in everything that this is a concrete example that there are sane rules, regulations and regulators.
Such ordinary and sensible regulations rely on, among other things, our belief that in a sane and democratic nation regulation may become excessive, but need not, because reasonable people are watchful and can be relied on to do sensible things.
Halfway into a reasonably genial and sane speech, handing out some regulation whacks at the Democratic incumbent, Clint turned to an empty chair positioned beside him, told us that Mr Obama was sitting in it, and then proceeded to ask him questions and respond to his (imaginary) replies: "Whaddaya mean 'shut up'?" Clint rasped.
If our government demanded that all animals slaughtered for human consumption actually be healthy, by any sane definition of the word, and if that regulation was actually enforced, the slaughter industry would be brought to its knees.
The grueling hours, staffing headaches, infinite opportunities for employee theft and supplier deception, obnoxious customers and reams of regulations should be enough to make any sane person avoid such a career.
Fear and mistrust, in both the gun and abortion debates, inhibit sane, level conversation, and impede what moderates might consider reasonable regulations.
However Jarecki dresses it up, tax and regulation is just another way of saying legalisation, because no sane voice is arguing for making hard drugs uncontrolled substances.
It is engaged in a race against time, regulation and litigation to build up its asset base and return to sane retail trading.
During the formation of vertebrate neuromuscular junctions (NMJs), signals from presynaptic motor neurons are necessary for the regulation of gene expression of postsynaptic transmitter receptors, which are acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) (Sanes and Lichtman, 2001; Schaeffer et al., 2001; Kummer et al., 2006).
