Dan Zanoza, Executive Director of Republicans for Fair Media, has an email publication which consistently has interesting items which can’t be found elsewhere.
For instance, before the John McCain adviser got in trouble for predicting that there would be no American terrorist attacks before the election because it would hurt Barack Obama’s campaign, Zanoza made the same prediction.
Every time we drive down Interstate 55, we see Burma Shave-type signs put up by GunSaveLife.org.
The group publishes GunEnews, edited by Warren Drake of Mahomet. (To subscribe, send a $30 check to Guns Save Life.com, PO Box 51, Savoy, IL, 61874.) It is published by the Champaign County Rifle Association and that organization is responsible for the pro-Second Amendment signs on interstates in mid-state Illinois.
It occurred to me that signs ought to also be on I-90, so, it is in the hope that someone knows a friendly landowner on the Northwest Tollway, opps, the Jane Adams Tollway, I’m linking to the interview that Zanoza did of Drake:
The signs cost about $500 a set and, because the anti-gun folks regularly vandalize them, some extra cash to set up surveillance cameras would be ideal. More details here.
Besides the language in the photo, another set says,
AND I’M ON HOLD
SURE WISH I HAD
THAT GUN I SOLD
The page referenced above indicates that 911 operators don’t think highly of it.
Others slogans like
WHEN CRIMINALS
DON’T KNOW
WHO’S ARMED
can be found here.
The simple fact is that the police cannot be everywhere.
And, now the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed our right to have handguns in our homes.
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I pulled this 1999 photo of Dr. Richard Klein posing by the one of the first set of signs the Champaign County Rifle Association put up on I-74 east of Urbana. I visited the group twice while I was running for governor on the Libertarian Party ticket. For years I subscribed to its monthly newspaper, but must have missed re-subscribing, because I’m no longer on the mailing list.