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The raised awareness of the potential horrors of bio-terrorism may shortly lead to the vacination of 0.5M healthworkers in the US against Smallpox and measures to detect containers of bio weapons. Surely then, the most difficult bio weapons container to detect would be a human. In other words, could a suicide terrorist infect his or herself with a disease and take employment somewhere that put themselves in contact with lots of people e.g. in a large restaurant, in order to carry out a biological terrorist attack? The thought that created this fear, was the memory of the story of Typhoid Mary. – Didn’t thousands of people die when she deliberately infected people with Typhoid as she worked as a cook? Looking into the true story of Typhoid Mary however reafirms the notion that one of the most worrying things about biological weapons is that they are more readily weapons of…

Glenn Reynold’s quotes a story from the UK’s Daily Telegraph. Fewer guns: more crime The ‘fewer guns’ is Glenn’s addition, and conclusion to explain the UK’s growing crime rate (incidentally the numbers of guns are also on the increase in the UK – but I don’t need to go into that). From the same newspaper: “Robberies in America are much more likely to be at gunpoint, which is one reason why the murder rate is much higher. The main reason for a much lower burglary rate in America is householders’ propensity to shoot intruders. They do so without fear of being dragged before courts and jailed for life. If American tourists coming to Britain are frightened of being murdered, a rare crime in any case, it is much less likely to happen in London than in any American city… Murder is the most likely cause of death in young men,…