The new legislation removed absurd anomalies such as the biologically senseless law that forbade a widower to marry his dead wife's sister, but it also firmed up the prohibition against sex with close kin, be it father with daughter, or brother with sister.
Guns extend the reach of violence, and, with our national silence on senseless gun laws, so do we.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. properly denounced these laws as senseless invitations to "sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods".
"Hazing is stupid and senseless and against the law in California," she said.
Where is the justice if walking while Black is enough to get you "stopped and frisked" in New York City and fatally shot in Florida with its senseless violent "Stand Your Ground" law that allows people to defend themselves with deadly force anytime and anywhere they imagine they are or say they feel threatened even if they are the stalker?
"I think that courts would be wrong to strike down laws that they think are senseless, just because they're senseless," she said.
"But I think that the question of whether it's a dumb law is different from the question of whether it's constitutional, and I think that courts would be wrong to strike down laws that they think are senseless just because they're senseless".
He had already signaled his weakness when he signed a credit card reform law that included another senseless gun lobby diktat — to allow people to carry loaded guns in national parks.
While politicians offer condolences, Americans are looking for common-sense guns laws before there is another senseless shooting on another campus.
"While there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of evil," he said, "if there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there's even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try".
