We're the Only Ones Being Hunted Down Enough

As many as six people are dead in a shooting rampage in Crandon, Wisconsin. The suspect is reportedly with the Forest County Sheriff's Department. At last report authorities were still trying to hunt him down.

They'd better, because "ordinary citizens" will be sitting ducks until they do:

It is now 2007, and Wisconsin is one of only two states that completely prohibits anyone but police officers and sheriffs' deputies from carrying concealed weapons for self defense.

Well, yeah. That's 'cause they're "The Only Ones"...

How Rudy and Michael Made New York Safer

A shirtless madman wielding stolen knives went on a bloody midtown rampage yesterday - stabbing a restaurant worker and a psychologist walking her dog before being shot by an off-duty cop, authorities said.

And how many more victims would there have been had an off-duty cop not just happened to be present?

Is this really what we want as a free people? To be butchered helplessly, with no defense except blind chance stepping in to save us?

This also puts the debate over mental health records for gun purchasers into perspective--if someone is too dangerous to trust with a gun, they are too dangerous to be running around with access to knives.

Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian.

More Information Superhighway RKBA Road Signs

I may make the Virtual "Burma-Shave" RKBA signs an ongoing weekend feature, assuming the Poetry Muse doesn't attract too many rotten tomatoes and cabbages.

As always, credit for applying this idea in the real world to RKBA activism goes to the Champaign County Rifle Association.

Free Gun Locks Easy to Obtain in PA

Guess what else is easy to obtain?

"Common Sense Gun Control"--Bill Clinton Style

Any questions?

Conoco-Phillips "Pleased" to Have Federal Judge Disarm YOU

U.S. District Judge Terence Kern issued a permanent injunction against an Oklahoma law that would have kept employers from banning firearms at the workplace under certain conditions.

Kern decided in a 93-page written order issued Thursday that the amendments to the Oklahoma Firearms Act and the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, which were to go into effect in 2004, conflict with a federal law meant to protect employees at their jobs.

Kern said the amendments "criminally prohibit an effective method of reducing gun-related workplace injuries and cannot co-exist with federal obligations and objectives."

First off, I'd like to know where he pulled that conclusion out of.

We've had the debate here before about property rights, and it's not my intent to resurrect it. I will say that ConocoPhillips, which "is pleased with the ruling," deserves to hear from all gun owners who are displeased with their activist efforts to disarm their countrymen.

They make feedback to their senior management a tad convoluted (mustn't disturb the important men), so I've opted to just link to their "company questions" form (and you don't need to enter your phone number--my form went through just fine without it).

Here's my correspondence--it doesn't need to be long--just stick with the basics.

Here are brands I will never buy again, unless and until this obnoxious policy is reversed.

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