Embattled Brits buy bats, Gottlieb touts 2A, Skyway Samaritan speaks :: 08/10/2011

As London descends into anarchy and British citizens are reportedly buying American-made aluminum baseball bats by the bushel, Bellevue's Alan Gottlieb says the situation shows a need in civilized society for the right to keep and bear arms.

He will probably get no argument from the armed Good Samaritan who intervened in the Skyway shooting over the weekend, and has now come forward to tell what happened, or from Northwest activists who have been watching the Skyway situation unfold here , here , here and here . The shooter in that case made his first court appearance Monday and remains in the King County jail on $500,000 bail.