This seems very good news, although, as always, there’s some legal eagle sneering at common sense down towards the bottom of the article.
It strikes me that Ayaan, and many others in Europe today, are in essence being deprived of their freedom of speech because of death threats. Two of my best friends in Italy have round-the-clock bodyguards because they’ve offended the usual (jihadi) suspects, and while they continue to write and sometimes to speak in public, there is no doubt their lives are constricted.
And while we’re on the subject of protection, it’s very annoying — don’t you think? — that Ayaan can’t carry a gun in the District of Columbia, where her day job is located, right next to my office at AEI. For that matter, in the (recently rejected by the Supreme Court) DC law, she can’t even have a shotgun under the bed. Just like the Brits, who from time to time arrest some poor soul who dared to defend his home against intruders.
I wonder if someone will eventually ask the gun control advocates if they’re prepared to pay for the protection of all those whose lives are endangered by their outspoken advocacy of something or other.