The law and the jungle

Good for him -- Attorney General Greg Zoeller has joined the chorus of critics urging the Indiana Supreme Court to revisit its 3-2 ruling that "the right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into a home is no longer recognized under Indiana law."

Wow. Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is already one of our most notorious domestic terrorists. Wouldn't it be something if he were also the one behind another famous scare?

The FBI said Kaczynski was among "numerous individuals" from whom the Bureau tried to obtain voluntary DNA samples as part of a reexamination of the 1982 killings in which seven Chicago residents ingested Tylenol capsules laced with deadly cyanide.

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Hey, you, put down that smartphone and quit eavesdropping on the police:

There is a popular smartphone application that even the dumbest criminals are catching onto, and it could put law-abiding people in jeopardy. It turns your phone into a mobile police scanner, and it's illegal for most people to have.

What could possibly go wrong?

A western Indiana school district wants to give its bus drivers the authority to search students for weapons or drugs.

The Tribune-Star reports that the Vigo County School Corp.'s proposal would allow the drivers to search a student and the student's belongings if there is an immediate threat of harm or danger to those on the bus.

Somehow, this is not as shocking as it should be:

It's commendable to keep "the children" and their welfare in mind when considering public policy, but it can get out of hand. Judges in Tippecanoe County are proposing new rules intended to shield youngsters from the bickering and resentment that often accompany divorce:

The furor isn't dying down over the Indiana Supreme Court's 3-2 ruling that Hoosiers don't have the right to resist if police officers illegally enter their homes. I can't remember the last time a court ruling in Indiana was so quickly and so roundly condemned. The consensus seems to be that the court pretty much gutted the Fourth Amendment, though not everyone puts it quite that strongly.

Indiana has among the laxest gun-permitting statutes in the nation. One restriction even a lot of staunch pro-gun advocates support, sensibly, is a firearms-instruction requirement. You can get a carry permit here without knowing diddly about how to actually use a gun safely. Such instruction might have been a help here:

Oh, goody, more lawyers:

Convinced that Indiana needs more lawyers, Indiana Tech plans to open the state's first new law school in more than a century.

"We haven't had a new law school open in Indiana since 1894," Arthur Snyder, president of the private Fort Wayne-based college, said Monday. "It's about time we did."

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With everything else going on, I almost missed this one:

Indiana lawmakers have rolled back a much-disparaged law requiring everyone, regardless of age, to be carded when buying alcohol, but some retailers say they may keep up the practice anyway.