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Games People Play

Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teen who came to Wisconsin in 2020 and killed two people protesting police violence and wounded a third (he was charged hut acquitted), has launched a YouTube channel glorifying "new and vintage firearms." He also recently released a video game called "Kyle Rittenhouse's Turkey Shoot," in which players gun down "fake news turkeys." All proceeds purportedly go to fund his defamation lawsuits against members of the media.

Let the Freedom to Commit Mass Murder Ring

The sheriffs of at least six rural Oregon counties announced that they would not enforce a new state ban on high-capacity gun magazines because they disagree with it. As Linn County Sheriff Michelle Duncan explained on her office's Facebook page, "I want to ensure anything we do or don't do will not hinder gun owners' rights to purchase firearms, intentionally or unintentionally." A judge later blocked implementation of the measure.

The Problem With

Automatic Transmission

In November, the restaurant chain KFC urged its German app users to celebrate the eighty-fourth anniversary of Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis terrorized Jews in Germany and Austria. Under the subject line "Memorial day for the Reich pogrom night," the app alert proclaimed, "Treat yourself to more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!" The company quickly apologized, blaming its "semi-automated content creation process."

No Laughing Matter

Richard Naidu, a lawyer and pro-democracy activist in Fiji, was convicted of contempt of court and faces up to six months in jail for noting that a judge twice used the word "injection" when he meant "injunction" in a court document, jokingly blaming "all this vaccination...

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